I’m adding this line after finishing the post. It appears a bit confrontational at first, but it’s not meant to be. Honest.
Have you had such an experience? If not, I don’t see how you can say that much about them. It all comes down to experience. I’m with you on nearly everything you say. By with you I mean I feel content with what you’ve written.
I’m in little doubt that what these people are describing is as true as it can be...however these days I don’t even
totally believe in my own experience!
Are they telling the truth? Yes. As they perceive it. I must allow the possibility that although they totally believe that they’re telling ‘the truth’. They might be somehow directed to tell what they only
think they’ve experienced. I see that as a possibility.
When you are inclined to be a fan of Idealism, as I am, then I think anything is possible. So other realms, planets, universes, aliens ...anything is more than possible.
Years ago I posted somewhere on this forum that I was putting my (big picture) money on Tom Campbell. Although I have my skeptical doubts about some things he says and does, my views haven’t changed on the basic premise. I’d love to meet him one to one with no pressure of time. Say on a long haul flight.
I feel uneasy about his many fans.