You cannot know Jesus apart from His Word. It is the Bread of Life! (Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4) The Living Word and the Holy Spirit work in tandem, revealing the Word to your spirit. If you study the Bible as purely an academic pursuit, focusing on theological opinion and religious reasoning, you end up with much of the religious confusion of the last 2,000 years. Ignore the Word and attempt to be “spiritual, but not religious,” you end up in another religious ditch of mysticism. If you combine both, you are really in trouble.
Too many people these days seem to think that the test of truth and faith is emotions, feelings, impressions, visions, etc.
All those things have their place but they need to be grounded in the word and measured by it and no matter what you experience, and how glamorous it is, if it doesn’t line up with Scripture, it needs to be tossed.
Except that people who have their experiences know what they know and there’s no talking to them.