Abstract
The hermeneutical and the epistemological paradigms for understanding mystical experience are not easily translated into each other. The hermeneutical model has the advantage in that it shifts the emphasis from explanation to understanding. Mystical experience, namely, the falling away of the factical conditions of human existence and the meeting with Infinite Being, cannot be reduced to epistemology, nor does it adhere to the categories of knowledge. Mystical experience is not about content at all; the mystic understands Being without concepts.
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