The claimed ability to gain informtion about objects, by means beyond natural methods of preception
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Corporeal Vision
Relating to a perons body. A vision that comes through the senses
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Empirical
Are those which are experienced through the senses eg: Corporeal Vision
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Entheogen
'Generating the divine from within' - for example dtugs are known to generate religious experiences
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Extrovertive
A kind of 'half-way house' to introvertive religious experiences. Unlike the inttrovertive experience, the extrovertive type, sence experience is still active although objects are transformed by 'the unity that shines through'
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Hallucinogenic
Causing hallucinations eg: Drugs
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Illumination
To illuminate is to cast light. In religious terms the doctrine of illumination holds that when the biblical writers wrote their books, the Holy Spirit illuminated their minds with the truth
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Imaginative Vision
A vision seen in the mind, usually through a dream experience
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Immaculate Conception
The catholic doctorine of the conception of the virgin Mary of her son Jesus
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Ineffable
Something that cannot be defined. For Willian James - it is an aspect of mystical religious experiences not describable in words, so cannot be imparted to others
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Interllectual Visions
A vivion without any visual image, where the experience is an illuminaion of the soul
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Introvertive
A religious experience in which sense experience is gotally suppressed and the conscious 'I' is replaced by pure conciousness / the one / the void
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Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
A tremendous and fainating mystery - is part of Ottos description of numinous religious experiences
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Neuroscience
The scientific study of the structure and function of the nervous system
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Neurotheology
The attempt to explain a religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms
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Noetic
An aspect of a mystical religious experience - That such exoeriences are states of knowledge as well as feelings, but the knowledge is spiritual and non transferable as well as authoritative
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Non-interllectual
The 'I' of the rational interlect is replaced by pure conciousness
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Non-sensuous
Not involving a physical sense
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Numinous
Relating To power or presence of a deity
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Original Sin
Refers to the first sin by Adam and Eve when they disobeyed God in the Garden of evil, and we all inherit original sin
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Passivity
An aspect of mystical religious experiences, that the experiencer does not control th experience but is controlled by it
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Precognition
Foreknowledge of an event through extre-sensory perception
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Sui Generis
In a class of its own or is unique - applys to numinous experiences
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Supernatural
Beyond the normal forces of nature
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Telekinesis
The ability to move objects soley by the power of the mind
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Trancendent
The concept that God is above and beyond the space-time universe
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Transiency
An aspect of mystical xperiences - that they generally last no more than half an hour, perhaps two hours at the most, although the effects are long lasting. especially in recurrent Experiences
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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Relating to a perons body. A vision that comes through the senses
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Corporeal Vision
Card 3
Front
Are those which are experienced through the senses eg: Corporeal Vision
Back
Card 4
Front
'Generating the divine from within' - for example dtugs are known to generate religious experiences
Back
Card 5
Front
A kind of 'half-way house' to introvertive religious experiences. Unlike the inttrovertive experience, the extrovertive type, sence experience is still active although objects are transformed by 'the unity that shines through'
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