Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays — When Certainty Outruns Evidence
What happens when the human need for meaning tries to become a method for discovering truth?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell as the lens, this episode investigates how mystical intuition and scientific reasoning can both shape philosophy. Russell argues that mysticism may offer a valuable attitude toward life, but becomes unreliable when emotional certainty is treated as proof about the structure of reality.
The central system explored here is the truth-filtering process that…
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