"Mass experiences" are not reliable in the way you reffer to them.
existing means now existing.
The "mass" experiences a flat Earth. Yet it is not.
For all or most practical purposes, it is/was flat. Older people were more practical. Inspite, learned ones were knowing earth's shape(proof; ancient astrological calculations), they favoured what was most practical, unabling common people to stand stable--not on ball. Moreover, being true skeptic & non-absolute nature of modern tellings, you can be skeptic in this, because you have not seen it as round from your naked eyes alike a ball in your fingers.
The "ancient masses" looked at the Sun and "experienced" (if not "knew") that it, the stars and the planets circled around the Earth...
The "mass experienced and knew" about spontaneous generation of maggots in the meat... Is spontaneous generation of maggots true?
The "ancient masses experienced and knew" that volcanoes were created by stong winds under the Earth...
The "ancient masses experienced and knew" that giant salamanders caused earthquakes...
The "ancient masses experienced and knew" that dragons and unicorns were real...
I don't know history of these. What common people lost or gained from these knowledges.
"Mass experience" means absolutely nothing.
Why then any well tested & studied medicine,theory is changed,banned,...etc. on time testing, mass observations & experiances. Were those evidances & studies fake or fraud, miss or wekness?
Besides, what percentage of the "mass" has "experienced and observed"? Is the percentage significative? I know a whole lot more people who do not belive and/or never had any ghost experiences than people who had any ghost experiences. The same is valid for homeopathy, UFOs, etc. Not to mention that the reliability of those who experienced can (must) be questioned.
We would have not able to translate true logic behind soul or ghost as indicate. Study my topic & try understandig the real logic & translation(however, I am bit fearing nowadays from those concepts as effecting--being very powerful forces) (Sorry, souls & ghosts, I apologize for indicating, pls forgive me & remain cool & clear towards me, this is an
open apology, good bye!!)
What brings me to another (slightly OT) issue- why anedoctal evidence for the inexistence of paranormal phenomena, UFOs and homeopathy are not taken in to account?
Some of my anedoctal examples-
*I´ve tried hard, including with supposed mediums and paranormal researchers, but never seen a ghost... Even when I belived in such things.
As above.
*Never saw something in the sky that could not be explained, even when I belived in such things and was part of UFO study group.
I don't know about this.
*Homeopathy never worked with me. Even when I belived in such things.
Bad luck. Rare. Have you didn't felt any change? Previously skeptic, how could you believe in it without experiancing its positive results.(however, to be true, one of my experiance indicate, many or most TRS remedies didn't work in some specific digestive pH condition).