Hubble - why don't you ask the cherubim?
On the subject of personal experience. Alistair Crowley used to instruct his students to pick a deity at random, and then to fast, meditate, chant, burn candles and incense at an altar and carry on this way until the deity manifested for you.
Once it did, you were instructed to immediately cease worship of that deity and begin to worship a different deity until IT manifested.
Point? If you look hard enough and long enough and you WANT to believe, you can make yoursef believe anything.
first of all, your initial question to Hubble is always what Hubble must do before he asks anything in the den.
second, you forgot to mention the part where Crowley adviced to have gay sex and get your butt-hole invaded by penises in order to gain "spiritual enlightment", whatever that meant for the poor crazy bastard lol.
As with most things, the reader would be best to take what is useful and leave the rest. How do you know you don't like being fucked by men if you haven't already considered it?
Jesus said some stuff I agree with, too. Doesn't mean I have to agree with everything the guy says, ya know?
being more selective in regards which sources of info to use is way better than going on a buffet of half-assed writters/gurus/snake oil sellers though.
thinking Crowley has something unique to offer that cannot be found elsewhere from a serious source is naive.
Most of what Jesus was supposed to have said seemed pretty nice like a buddha.
Interesting the polls are showing that most do believe