"I'm convinced that at the core of every religion, there were real transformative and transcendent human experiences that are attested to by the literature and traditions that have grown up around that religion.

...there really was a person in history by the name of Jesus who had this effect on the people around him...

...this ego you take yourself to be is an illusion and it allows you to recognize that unconditional love is actually a possibility...

...it's obviously not a delusion... you don't have to believe in anything unempirical in order to experience that range of positive experience you just have to learn to use your attention in the right ways...