Toward a Unified Science of Spiritual Experience—Visionary Realism and the Ontology of Interiority: Philosophical Commentary on Chatlos’s Framework of Spirituality
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science April 9, 2025 Nicholas Hedlund
This article proposes visionary realism as a philosophical framework to underlabor for the development of a unified science of spiritual experience. By integrating elements of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism, Ken Wilber’s integral theory, William James’s radical empiricism, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s participatory epistemology, and Rudolf Steiner’s subtle empiricism, visionary realism outlines...