Developing A Universal Religion/Revelations And Conversions/Reformations, Conversions And Revelations

Understanding that the mind develops (and is, to varying degrees, dominated by) a wide variety of mental constructs prepares us to investigate the two questions posed in the introduction to this chapter: what makes conversions so convincing, and from where might they come?

Reformations, conversions and revelations all involve mental constructs; we will consider each in turn.