Editing Religious experience (section)

====Perennial philosophy====
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According to the Perennial philosophy, the mystical experiences in all religions are essentially the same. It supposes that many, if not all of the world's great religions, have arisen around the teachings of mystics, including [[Buddha]], [[Jesus]], [[Lao Tze]], and [[Krishna]]. It also sees most religious traditions describing fundamental mystical experience, at least esoterically. A major proponent in the 20th century was [[Aldous Huxley]], who "was heavily influenced in his description by Vivekananda's [[neo-Vedanta]] and the idiosyncratic version of Zen exported to the west by [[D.T. Suzuki]]. Both of these thinkers expounded their versions of the perennialist thesis",{{sfn|King|2002|p=163}} which they originally received from western thinkers and theologians.{{sfn|King|2002}}