Alan Watts points to the difference between having an effable mystical experience of one’s unity with the divine — and attempting to convey that experience in language. Which is impossible. And yet we do it anyway.

We substitute the way we have framed up (and thus limited, distorted) mystical experience with the experience itself.

And all our wars, ultimately, are fought over which frame is the “right” one.

One more example of how the map is never the territory.