 William Alston (1991, Chapter 1) has noted that we don’t have a well-developed vocabulary for the description of the phenomenal qualia of “mystical” experience. (Compare William James’s suggestion that “mystical” experiences are “ineffable”: 1902, p. 380.) If someone takes God’s goodness to be displayed in, say, a mountain landscape, then the phenomenology of their experience can perhaps be set down easily enough, at least in some central respects; but what about the case where an experience is said to be more directly of God (the case that Alston intends to pick out by the expression “mystical perception”)? Alston suggests that our inability to describe the elements of such experiences from a phenomenological point of view does not imply that they lack a distinctive phenomenology, or that they fail to be directed at some mind-independent reality, in rather the way that sense experiences are.