http://members.cruzio.com/~krstudstill/religious_studies_resources_about.htm aside from our transegoic, integral dynamics and our outgrowing egocentric bias ...

what about nonegoic dynamics? randall studstill suggests that certain nondual states of consciousness foster the emergence of novel cognitive patterns & affective attunements through a destabilization of existing hermeneutical circles ... and that makes sense from the cognitive systems perspective he describes ... and what guarantees that this destabilization will be therapeutic rather than pathological or even dangerously dissociative? it's akin to rebooting a computer ... but what operating system reloads? the structure of the belief system provides the safety, the trust this particular soteriological trajectory can present across traditions even if fostered by very different doctrines & practices thus supporting an account of mystical pluralism ... this complements the polydoxic account of religious pluralism, wherein the soteriological trajectories of the great traditions will differ, precisely because of differences in doctrinal & ritualistic emphases