Quote Originally Posted by apachama View Post
evidence of mystical or religious experience doesn't fit with atheism
That's bullcrap. There's nothing that would keep an atheist from spiritual experiences and activities including but not limited to meditation, hypnosis, the intake of pyschoactive drugs, sensory deprivation, lucidity, ascetism, spiritual retreats, fasting and other such things.
The only difference is that you don't need to pretend to know things that you in fact do not know.