Article note: I got an Armatron at a yard sale as a kid, they are delightful toys that are really good at making you think about task complexity/dof/etc.
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything and the whole world was sinking deeper and deeper into filth and disease and poverty and ignorance. It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.