COSTA RICAN TIMES
It’s a commonplace that religious experience is deeply private. Not because we are separate individuals, but because inner phenomena, by their very nature, are not social phenomena.
When someone does disclose his or her religious experience however, while denying that it is such, something is amiss.
The art critic for the Washington Post found himself overcome on a family vacation in Europe, specifically at the Matisse Chapel in Vence France, with its “Tree of Life” windows.
Sebastian Smee begins by saying:
“Weeks have elapsed, and I’m still trying to figure out what happened when I visited the Matisse Chapel in Vence, France — why I responded as I did. Mystified, I keep coming back to the obvious: I wasn’t prepared.”
He apparently means what happened to him doesn’t fit neatly
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