Religious Experience

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Conversion
The changing from one set of beliefs to another; "atheism to theism, a believer to a non believer" Cole
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Revelation
disclosure with the divine, something not yet realised
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Vision
where someone believes that they have seen or heard something supernatural or a supernatural being
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Mysticism
gaining unobtainable truths, not necessarily intellectual truths - Julian of Norwich, "God our Mother"
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Propositional revelation
God to human, chooses who can receive truths - each experience is different
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Unpropositional revelation
both participants seek one another
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Definition of Religious Experience
"Quite different from any other type of experience... usually induces the person a conviction that the everyday world is not of whole reality" Hay, "A neat, precise definition of Religious Experience is...Fruitless" Frank Davis
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Ineffability
indescribable and cannot be explained using words (Hildegard of Bingen) "have i already not said that my experience was utterly beyond words?" Tennyson
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Noetic Quality
Gaining of knowledge and unobtainable truths (Julian of Norwich "God our Mother")
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Transiency
Time passing, the actual experience does not last long, but the information gained lasts forever
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Passivity
It just happens to you, you don't got looking for it
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Revelation

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disclosure with the divine, something not yet realised

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Vision

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Mysticism

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Propositional revelation

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