Religious Experiences

Question 1

Intellectual Vision

Answer 1

Brings knowledge and understanding.

Question 2

Imaginary Vision

Answer 2

Something that strengthens faith is seen in the mind’s eye.

Question 3

Corporeal Vision

Answer 3

Where the figure is externally present.

Question 4

Numinous Experience

Answer 4

A sudden sense of God’s divine creations.

Question 5

Conversion

Answer 5

A religious experience which either strengthens your faith or changes your faith completely.

Question 6

Volitional Conversion

Answer 6

This conversion experience is conscious and voluntary. Gradual change and slow development.

Question 7

Self-Surrender Conversion

Answer 7

This conversion experience is unconscious and involuntary.

Question 8

Ineffability

Answer 8

Human language is insufficient for describing the experience.

Question 9

Transiency

Answer 9

The experience doesn’t last.

Question 10

Noetic Quality

Answer 10

You can learn something from the experience.

Question 11

Passivity

Answer 11

The experience happens to you.

Question 12

Nature-Mysticism

Answer 12

Observing the beauty or vastness of nature triggers a mystical experience.

Question 13

God-Mysticism

Answer 13

Mediating on the aspects of God and the desire to be one with God triggers a mystical experience.

Question 14

The Mysticism of Love and Union

Answer 14

We desire a feeling of belonging. This desire can sometimes trigger a religious experience.

Question 15

The Mysticism of Knowledge and Understanding

Answer 15

We all deserve to know the answers to everything. This desire to know can sometimes trigger a religious experience.

Question 16

Existential Judgements

Answer 16

A ‘primary’ question, that is concerned with the nature of something.

Question 17

Value Judgements

Answer 17

A ‘secondary’ question which is concerned with the meaning, important and significance of something.

Question 18

Swinburne’s Principle of Credulity

Answer 18

If someone believed they’ve seen something, they probably have.

Question 19

Swinburne’s Principle of Testimony

Answer 19

All else being equal, if someone tells you something happened to them, we tend to believe them.

Question 20

Medical Materialism

Answer 20

They believe that all religious experiences are a trick of the mind, or are explainable through medical terms only.

Question 21

Corporate Religious Experience

Answer 21

A religious experience happens to multiple people at once.