Mystical religious experience
- Created by: Ellen Hannah
- Created on: 07-06-14 14:15
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- Mystical - religious experience
- Main features
- Personal experience: feels as though one has been touched by higher/greater truth or power
- Can be seen as an important component of a rel tradition because = can offer validation of a traditions belief system
- So powerful: capacity to provide moral, ethical, intellectual + emotional direction, it = frequently mistrusted
- Defined as: spiritual discipline used to make contact with divine. However, some have been experienced without contemplating divine.
- Stages of mystical experience
- St Bonaventure, teacher of Aquinas, saw as M/E's have 3 stages
- Purgative stage: mystic = prepared + purified by prayer + discipline
- Illuminative stage: mystic = enjous experience = emotionally + spiritually illuminating
- Final/unitive stage: enjoys sense of oneness with G-d
- St Bonaventure, teacher of Aquinas, saw as M/E's have 3 stages
- Stace's feature of M/E
- Snse of unity
- Sense of timelessness
- Sense of having encountered ultimate reality
- Ineffability
- Loss of ego/sense of self
- Accompanied by feelings of euphoria (excitement)
- He argued that it must be non-sensuous - not mystical if it involves senses
- Main features
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