In physicists like Arthur Eddington and John Wheeler, then, we find “repeated hints toward a kind of spirituality that transcends the mind-matter split.”31 Much of this new spirituality—which we might call either postreligious or postsecular—will involve the dissolution of “experience” itself, since all experience is phenomenologically dualistic (that is, an intentional expression of a subject-object split). This dissolution of the subject-object structure is precisely what “mystical” means for Atmanspacher and Rickles, which, once again, they relate to Hegel and, further back, to Spinoza:
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