Judging the experience to be an illusion of this or some other sort frees the third-person interpreter to theorize about the real nature of the causal process that the believer supposes to orig- inate in God. Such theories might come in any number of varieties: Feuerbachian projection theories; Freudian, Lacanian, or Irigarayan psychoanalytic theories; Marxist deprivation theories; Durkheimian so- cial theories; contemporary neuroscientific theories; or what have you. And finally, some might, like the experiencer herself, regard the ex- perience as veridical or at least possibly so. Theologians and those who are agnostic about God’s existence might be willing to consider as a possible option that God really did manifest to the Christian