[sweuder]

What is a mystical experience then?

I would suppose that it went something like:

1. Person sees/experiences something interesting/abnormal/rare

2. Can't figure out how to explain what happened

3. Attributes experience to god/religion

Once we started filling in that middle bit there was less around that could only be attributed to religion so it lost a lot of its draw.

Now that we are closer to a state where we can attribute most things to nature/science/etc religion does seem to be left with mostly dogma.