[Benedict Broere]

Well, mystical experience is one thing and can be of high value for the person concerned, but gaining knowledge, scientific knowledge, is really something else. Intuition has it role in that, in this latter, but then a whole lot of labour has to follow, in research and making things plausible. And this is what I meant to say.

Berkeley is an American philosopher, who has a very peculiar view on reality.

If someone is really interested in the essential nature of reality, then some orientation on what others have thought in this field, can be very usefull. At least I think it is highly unusual to just ignore what a large array of excellent thinkers already have written and said in this respect.