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In Part 5 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, John Dunne returns for his second talk of the program, tracing “mystical experience” to its roots as a 19th-century, largely American invention — one with no real equivalent in Buddhist, Hindu, or indigenous traditions. He walks through the influential accounts of William James and W.T. Stace, whose model of a universal, unitive, inward…

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