Religious Experiences
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- Created on: 04-04-18 16:38
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- Religious Experiences
- Visionary
- Corporal
- Empirical (sense experience)
- Joan of Arc
- Empirical (sense experience)
- Intellectual
- No image- do not directly see anything
- Theresa of Avila
- No image- do not directly see anything
- Imaginative
- Seen by eye of the mind
- Dreams, e.g. Pharaoh's Dream
- Seen by eye of the mind
- Corporal
- Mystical
- William James
- 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'
- a union of God rather than God being something completely other
- "God meets the individual's concerns"
- REs come before faith
- 3 diff types: simplistic, drug induced + direct union
- Passive, ineffable, Noetic quality and Transient
- Walter Stace
- non-sensuous and non-intellectual union with the divine
- 'Mysticism and Philosophy'
- only a mystic if you've have ME
- 2 qualities: Extrovertive- outward, everyday things 1/2
- Introvertive- inward, full blown union, transcends our level of consciousness
- William James
- Numinous
- Rudolf Otto- an apprehension of the wholly other
- 4 key ideas
- direct union/encounter with the holy other
- suis generis- of it's own kind
- non-rational
- Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
- Challenges and responses
- Freud- wishfulfillment
- This is just a theory that cannot be tested/verified
- WJ believes drugs can bring about RE- just hallucinogens (LSD) - not religious just stimulated experience
- Doesn't make it any less legitimate. Nirvana is induced through practise e.g. meditation
- Can be brought through illness- TLE- St Paul's characteristics match. Persinger- 'the God Helmet'
- how else do you experience ME other than through the brain?
- REs cannot be verified - James+ Stace: RE's are ineffable and nonsensuous
- Group experiences and evidence in life changes
- Freud- wishfulfillment
- Swinburne's principles of credulity and testimony
- Credulity
- if it seems to a subect that x is present, then probably x is present
- it's reasonable to believe that the world is probably as we expeirence it to be
- 4 considerations for thinking that the way things seem may not be how they actually are
- difficulty of showingGod was present during the experience
- truth of the claim
- the possibility that what is claimed can be accounted for in other ways
- reliability of the claim
- if it seems to a subect that x is present, then probably x is present
- Testimony
- with the absence of any reason to disbelieve them,one should accept the eyewitnesses/believers are telling the truth about REs
- makes sense to believe as the majority of people tell the truth
- Rejections
- too optimistic
- mystical and visionary claims are unreliable
- Support
- POC- significant life changes
- the Cumulative Argument
- Credulity
- Visionary
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