Religious Experience: The Mystical Ascent

Question 1

Rudolf Otto

Answer 1

Idea of the holy
Non rational lies at the center of religion, cut out the heart of religion. Preserve the non rational.
Numinous feeling

Question 2

Mystical ascent

Answer 2

Aldous Huxley 
Thinking not impaired 
Visual impressions greatly intensified
Inner and outer experiences 
What occurs in this state- mind at large
Result-egoless was and obscure knowledge

Question 3

Mysticism

Answer 3

Pursuit of a transcendent unitive experience with absolute reality

Question 4

True experience classified by William James

Answer 4

Transcendent- not in time and space 
Ineffable- not expressable in language 
Noetic- conveying illumination 
Ecstatic- filling soul with bliss 
Unitive- uniting soul with reality 
Ex- st Augustine

Question 5

Basic approach and goal

Answer 5

Ascend a latter of truth beyond sense impressions and ideas purifying the soul to engage with ultimate reality

Question 6

Orientation

Answer 6

God is sought/ known in a way that transcends ordinary or rational knowledge
First comes religious experience then then rational interpretation and this to know about God one must have direct immediate experience