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If this weren’t so directly on point, I would not speak of it for fear of angering the self-promotion gods... but that’s pretty much my work to a T. McKenna has been a huge influence on me. My first novel, The Yoga of Strength, was heavily influenced by my time in Peru participating in ayahuasca ceremonies (just have a look at the cover). The mentor is a shaman, essentially. A reader with lots of experience in the seeker realm, let’s say, emailed to tell me that it was one of the best descriptions of the quest for enlightenment he’s found. Tim Leary’s (who is arguably McKenna adjacent) son Zach said "Andrew Marc Rowe does a fantastic job - really a brilliant job of crafting this world that is part Game of Thrones, part Bhagavad Gita and takes you into a quest for enlightenment while also using yogic philosophy and dragons and Greek and Hindu and Roman and Celtic mythological symbols and deities to weave the plot together to expose its teachings and the moral compass that lies within our protagonist."
Again, I apologize if this is a breach of self promotion rules but this I would say is right on point. The original tag line is ‘A Hero’s Journey Into The Heart Of Reality’
https://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Strength-Fable-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B084GWGPFZ
What do you mean by accuracy? If you have a narrator with a faulty memory so they’re not telling the “objective” story with pin point journalistic accuracy but you capture a real person going through some crazy stuff that’s definitely great for nosleep.
If you’re telling a story in 3rd person omniscient narrator, unless the it’s deliberately confusing, it should be more clear. Also the genre matters too. If you’re going historical fiction accuracy of the setting matters. Even in nosleep it does bother me if the monster/ghost/etc has no consistency to itself and does the Lost show thing where the author seems to be throwing in cool /spooky /intriguing stuff without tying it together.
I know the list of rules stories have gotten popular but I’ve only read a few of them that tie it together and make you understand where they come from. There has been some nice fluff reading that I’ve enjoyed and it definitely works for the short story format. It sets up the premise and plot really fast and I definitely enjoyed a few.
There was that one story where a war vet buys a house in the country side with a neighbor that warns him about different lights and ghosts and the naked bear man. That was super well written technique wise and you felt a connection with the narrator. The narrator didn’t know where the rules came from so we didn’t either. So you don’t need to explain every detail, especially in horror.
But there was one story by u/ByfelsDisciple that managed to make the rules make sense that brought the story the next level good.
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08685GZ3B/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_93wgFb2EK91CX
If you’re serious about an answer to this, you need to read a book a legit modern theologian. I’d recommend The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart.
Like others have said, I don't think there's ever going to be some bulletproof syllogism that's actually going to convince a skeptic. People are moved much more by experience and emotion than they are by logic (which is the way it should be in my opinion!). That said, if anybody ever asks me about books about the existence of God and the like, the only book I will recommend is "The Experience of God" by David Bentley Hart. DBH is Orthodox and the book is in some ways an argument for classical theism. It's the only book that I think would move the needle for someone who is skeptical but also genuinely seeking.
Aha! Thanks for sharing. This all makes sense and for once I think I might be able to be helpful, because the intellectual arguments are actually airtight as far as I can see. I assume you’re open to reading books?
This is the best modern philosophical argument: The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart. He is actually Orthodox, not Catholic, and the argument is the necessity/logic of the monotheistic God envisioned by all major religions. Hart is very snarky and very erudite.
The other best current-day proofs, based on physics, cosmology, logic, and metaphysics can be found in New Proofs for the Existence of God by Robert Spitzer. Totally different personality, Fr. Spitzer is gentle and thoughtful, but also a genius who gets into some sophisticated modern science here. But his explanations are thorough and if you stick with it, you’ll get the gist of what he’s saying. (Skim terms you’re not familiar with—eventually it will start to sink in.) It does help if you have some experience with cosmology and quantum mechanics.
Hindu gods (potentially Shinto too, but IDK) or perhaps, in general polytheistic gods are not really often "God" as considered in monotheistic contexts. They are portrayed more of as powerful sunpernatural entities rather than the foundational ground of existence or such. So in that sense, existence of powerful supernatural personal entities don't really have much to do with the God of philosophy. That said, sub-branches of Hinduism can still tend towards pantheism/panentheism (presenting the polytheistic gods as multiple faces of the "one" Brahman) or monotheism/quasi-monotheism; so in that respect that can get closer to the notion of a philosopher's God. Another thing to note is that what the God of philosophy is (often considered to be the same as the Abrahamic God) can be pretty controversial in details. Theologists can debate about immanence, transcendence, personalism, and such. So people have different accounts, different arguments for what God is like and not. There are, however, some theologians who draw parallels between different formulations of "God" cross-culture: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E64EH0K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Experience of God by Hart is a good place to start.
I've written my thoughts in a review here (not avialable on the US version of Amazon). I'd recommend this instead: World full of Gods The UK site has "look inside" enabled, while the US one doesn't.
I recommend this book too much, but it's really that good. "The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss" by David Bentley Hart is a fantastic theology book, and almost a must read if you don't have much exposure to the subject. It makes the case that most people have the wrong definition of God, because they don't understand theology, and that for the past 3000 years or so all major world religions shared the same definition of God. Those educated in theology broadly agree on definitions, but the vast majority of the population has some major misconceptions, largely due to newer sects grounded in bad philosophy. The author is an Orthodox Christian, but deliberately tries to avoid talking about Christianity much, and instead heavily draws on Hinduism to make the point that, metaphysically, the definition of God is the same across cultures. The book does not try to prove the existence of God directly, although it does touch on direct proofs and misconceptions about them, but instead shows that properly defined God is a fairly intuitive reality that's hard to doubt, and best known through prayer or some other meditative practice. It also touches on Kierkegaard a fair bit. (I'd recommend a secondary source to start with him, as he's hard to read.)
One of the few books I have seen with a Kindle edition cheaper than the actual book. But still not cheap =X
David Bentley Hart's, <em>The Experience of God</em>.