Religious Experience

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Conversion experience

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Unlocking human potential

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Indirect religious experience

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An experience that focuses the mind on god or the Devine

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Direct religious experience

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Experience with god or the divine

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Richard Swinburne types of religious experience

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Public

Private

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Richard Swinburne types of religious experience

PUBLIC

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ordinary and everyday natural experiences

Extraordinary and miraculous violations of our understanding

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Richard Swinburne types of religious experience

PRIVATE

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describable in ordinary language
Non describable - direct, ineffable, numinous
Non specific- looking at world from religious perspective

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William James

Mysticism

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American philosopher, ill health led him to question moral ideas
Pragmatist

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Pragmatist

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Holds belief that the truth of something can be determined by its practical effects and consequences

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Passitivity

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Done to you

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Ineffability

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Indescribable

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Noetic

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Insight of the Devine

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Transiency

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Short lived experience

Long lasting effects

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Weakness of William James

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Too much reliance on personal subjective experience

Difficult to judge

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Principle of testimony

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We should generally believe what others say unless we have reason not to

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Principle of credibility

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Willingness to believe, no reason to doubt

what one perceives is probably so

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The numinous

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Presence of something greater then yourself
Higher consciousness
Egolessness, universal perspective

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Numinous dread

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Awe or awe fullness

Bigger than ordinary consciousness

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Different religious experience

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Numinous
Prayer
Miracle
Conversion
Visions / voices
Corporate experience

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Rudolph otto

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Looked at phenomenology of religious consciousness

Stressed non rationality nature of religious experience

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Phenomenology

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Study of conciousness as experienced from the first person point of view

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John hick

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Fundamental part of religion is experiencing as

Objective experience

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Soren kierkegaard

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Religious belief is held passionately 
God existence is a feeling not a fact
Leap of faith
Objecting certainty is not impactful 
Faith is incomprehensible but not irrational

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Idea of the holy

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Ottos famous work

Mysterium temendum = numinous dread

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Martin buber
Ich du
(I-you)

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Mutual holistic existence of two beings

Lacks structure, no content
Lovers
Relationship between I and god
Be open with god then sores teachings and experience that all can then know god

Question 25

Fc happold type of mystical experience

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``` Soul mysticism ( self fulfilment) Nature mysticism ( god is everywhere) God mysticism ( soul union with god) ``` Looks at all experiences there are Finding soul, completing self fulfilment

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Fc happold | Types of mysticism

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1-mysticism of love and union- bigger that ourselves | 2-mysticism of knowledge and understanding - the whole story of the universe

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Conversion experiences | St. Paul

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Killed Christian's came into contact with Jesus and became Christian

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Conversion experiences | Nicky Cruz

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Raised by abusive parents Became gang member and murderer Christian told him about the love of Jesus Converted

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Conversion experience | St Augustine

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Christian Drunk with prostitutes Voices led him to read St. Paul's bible entries Changed

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Corporate experiences

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Religious experience that happens to a group of people

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Corporate experiences | Toronto blessing

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1994 Touch of lord Transforms you never same again - holy spirit acting through them

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Corporate experiences | Glossolaila

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Speech like syllables Purest form of prayer Lord speaking through you

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Corporate experiences | Glossolalia evaluation

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``` + Brain scan- act differently when doing it - Doesn't prove existence of God Exaggerated Fake ```

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Corporate experiences | Physiological challenges

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*person experiencing Devine may have disorder eg epilepsy undermining what they thought was a religious experience

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Corporate experiences | Psychological challenges

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Religious illusion that satisfies people desire | Meets there needs

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Corporate experiences | Sociological challenges

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Product of culture in persona life Not from god but the desperation of individual Church brainwash