Reading the mind of God (without Hebrewlessons): Alston, shared attention, andmystical experience

Alston’s perceptual account of mystical experience fails to show how it isthat the sort of predicates that are used to describe God in these experiences couldbe derived from perception, even though the ascription of matched predicates in thenatural order are not derived in the manner Alston has in mind. In contrast, if onelooks to research on shared attention between individuals as mediated by mirrorneurons, then one can give a perceptual account of mystical experience which drawsa tighter connection between what is reported in mystical reports and the mostsimilar reports in the natural order