I wonder whether you really read my responses or you just skip over them with preconceived notions of what I say.

I never said that experience is self-authenticating. Religious/mystical experiences, although they "illuminate" new avenues to explore, are, in the end, also the source of plethora of infantile idiocies. You yourself are quite aware of all those inane beliefs held by the throngs of "aspiring mystics." Some people call it "blinded by light."

I also said, not so long ago, that there is no such thing as "experience of raw consciousness". Consciousness is not an object to experience. This expectation or belief is why you argue with misinterpretations of valid "spiritual" knowledge, throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

You also seem to gloss over the fact that thinking and understanding *are* experiences with the same revelatory power and pitfalls as those of "mystical and religious" (in essence, emotional) ones. Just sayin'.