Interpreting experience

Any experience we experience must be interpreted.  What we perceive and how we define these things are understood within a framework.  The religious, social, economic,  and historic culture in which we live will control how we understand any experience.
This is especially true of mystical experience. Without even going into the details of the experience, the fact of the experience actually taking place is interpreted differently by differing worldviews.  If someone is an atheist, a mystical experience involving a bright light at the end of a tunnel, will be interpreted as a mis-firing of the brain and flooding of chemicals into that brain.  Whereas a Buddhist may interpret this as a preparation for "the clear mind", or a Christian may see this as a transition from this temporal life into eternity with God.

Why am I thinking about this?  It has occurred to me that the use of experience as a tool for "proving" the validity of ones faith is not effective.  The same way that using particular texts from the Bible is not effective either, as differing minds will interpret texts (or even their applicability) in differing ways.  

When Jesus worked through his ministry, his instruction was very clear, "love God and love neighbor".  If we make this the focal point of our efforts in this life, we cannot go wrong.  We don't need to go door to door, we don't need to stand on street corners seeking to convince those passing by (of whatever) and we don't need to engage in intellectual debates and arguments to prove the other guy wrong.  We need to genuinely love other people.  And that means, in large part, to not judge them, condemn them or denigrate them when their current lifestyle is not up to the standard that we think it ought to be.  

We can argue and craft proofs all day long, but if someone does not see our love, we are nothing.