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TheMaster
luckily we now have a wealth of research where inter-religous dialogue is had and we can easily vet one another experience in a spirit of good will and good faith. this always leads to the conclusion that the experience themselves are different in nature. not only that but the open minded are often willing to be initiated into the other traditions experience and they themselves report that it is different from the home tradition. an account attesting to the differences in each tradition had by a single persons certainly cannot be reduced to a language difference can it?
i myself have had peak experience in saccitanada from hinduism and the trinity in Christianity. they are not the same and this is attested to by many saints from inter-religious dialogue.
it is rather the notion that all mystical experience is the same that must be proven since there are NO indicators that this is the case outside of people just claiming it and since the language is SO VERY different from the various traditions and since we have inter-eligous dialogue attesting to that fact to pull from..
bede griffiths wrote a whole lot about that and there is plenty of other literature surrounding this fact of the mystical life. its really just people that take drugs that arrogantly think they know better than everyone else or else scholars like joseph campbel who had no peak exigence to draw from and just saw similarities in language that form those conclusions. i also think there is a genuine goodwill behind the fallacy in that we are all trying to bring religion together so we can stop fighting.
bede griffiths and his group along with the hinduh masters he worked with all attested to the difference between the two and even words like deeper and further were used to describe the distinctions.
but we also know this from an internal perspective in that the exact peak experience a person is aiming for needs to be corralled and guided by tradition to come to it because there are that many dwelling places to find and participate in.
i have never experienced "cleaving" from the jewish tradition but i can easily recognize the place where it happens on the accent and why it is different from what happens to me. its right where it starts to all be blinding white infinite light and you begin to merge with it and forget that you are an individual at all. if you allow it to happen you forget your individual self and forget that you are even a person or that there is a world or a universe an you lose all subject/object awareness altogether. but the jewish mystics must be able to enter into that infinite light and participate in it fully without ever losing the slightest bit of awareness of the individual self or from the PERSONAL dimension of that white light (which is different from what the hinduhs speak of). "cleaving" is the ability to stay perfectly focused on God as a God who is personal without ever losing awareness of the self as a separate being with a concrete history. If you do lose awareness of the self its like passing out and falling away from the truth.
calling it "light" is just a description though as it is infinite everything infinitely radiant etc, infinite power etc.