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Religious Experience Flashcards

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Numinous

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Relating to the power and presence of a deity

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Empirical

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Things experienced by the senses

Eg. A corporeal vision

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Immaculate conception

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The Catholic doctrine that Mary is born without Original Sin

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Original sin

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The first sin of Adama and Eve

St Augustine taught that original sin is inherited seminary by all their descendants

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Imaginative

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A vision seen in the mind usually through a dream experience

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Corporeal

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A vision seen in the real world eg. At Bernadette. Not a dream, it actually appears.

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Intellectual vision

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A vision without any kind of visual image - it is an illumination of the soul

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Sui generis

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In a class of its own, one of a kind.

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transcendent

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God is above and beyond the space time universe

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Noetic

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An aspect of mystical religious experience

The knowledge is spiritual and non transferable as well as authoritative

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Transiency

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An aspect of mystical religious experience

Though they are generally short the effects are long lasting

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Passivity

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An aspect of mystical religious experiences

The experiencer isn’t in control but is controlled

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Non sensous

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Not involving the physical senses

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Non intellectual

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The ‘I’ of the rational intellect is replaced by pure consciousness

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Clairvoyance

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The ability to gain information about things by means that are beyond the normal methods of perception

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Extrovertive

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A half way house to introvert is religious experience

Sense experience is still active but objects are transformed by the unity that shines through

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Introvertive

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Sense experience is totally suppressed and the conscious ‘I’ is replaced by pure consciousness/the one/ the void

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Ineffable

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The aspect of mystical religious experiences not describable in words

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Entheogen

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Drugs like LSD that are known to generate religious experiences

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Hallucinogenic

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Drugs that cause hallucinations

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Ineffable define

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When the experience goes far beyond human powers of description - it cannot be described or transferred

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Noetic define

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When the person received knowledge or feeling directly from God - authoritative and non-transferable

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Transient define

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Non permanent, generally no longer than 2 hours but long term impact - a changed view of the universe

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Passive define

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The person is not in control but is taken over by the experience from God

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William James’ basis quote ‘God meets’

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‘God meets the individual on the basis of his personal concerns’

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St Teresa quote on ineffable

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‘I wish I could give a description of at least the smallest part of what I have learned but.. I find it impossible’

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William James 4 characteristics of mystical experiences

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Ineffable
Noetic
Transient
Passive

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Mysterious tremendum et fascinans

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A tremendous and fascinating mystery

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Otto quote on religious experience

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‘The idea of the Holy’

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2 stories in the Bible about numinous experiences

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The call of Moses

The call of Isiah

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CS Lewis on a ‘mighty spirit’

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If you were told there was a tiger in the room next to you, you would feel fear of the danger you were in
If you were told it was a mighty spirit, the disturbance would be profound but not necessarily fear

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CS Lewis quote on the ‘other’

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‘Wonder and a shrinking feeling of inadequacy to cope with this ‘other’ ‘

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Mysterium

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Wholly other
Blank wonder
Stupor

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Tremendum

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Full of awe, terror, dread of the ‘wrath of God’

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Fascinans

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Potent charm, attracted to it in spite of fear

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Otto holds that, although the numinous is inconceivable..

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It is somehow within our grasp. We apprehend it in a feeling JOHN MACQUARRIE

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STACE quote on proof of God

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‘Either God is a mystery or He is nothing at all. To ask for proof of the existence of God is on par with asking for proof of the existence of beauty’ STACE

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STACE 5 characteristics of mystical experiences

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Non sensuous and non intellectual
Not occult
Not Visions and voices
Transcends our consciousness 
Extroversive and introversive
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Introvertive

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Unitary consciousness
Non spatial but a sense of reality
Feeling blessed, peace, holy, divine

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Extrovertive

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The unifying vision, all things are one
Concrete apprehension of the One - inner subjectivity and life in all things
Objects in the physical world are transfigured

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