 Katz further notes that Stace held one specific mystical tradition to be superior and normative, whereas Katz rejects reductionist notions and leaves God as God, and Nirvana as Nirvana.According to Paden, Katz rejects the discrimination between experiences and their interpretations.Katz argues that it is not the description, but the experience itself which is conditioned by the cultural and religious background of the mystic.