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Religious experiences (Visions (Corporeal Visions (Main vocabulary…

- - - - Empirical
      - Supernatural
      - God through nature
    - - An imaginary vision where something that strengthens faith is seen with the mind's eye
    - - Private
      - Clear religious significance
      - Accompanied by voices, visions of light, etc
    - - Joan of Arc (seeing angels and saints)
  - - - Illumination
      - Mystical
    - - Coming to an understanding without visions of corporal images. They are mystical and cannot be described using ordinary language/
    - - No images
      - Spiritual illumination
    - - St Teresea of Avila
  - - - Eye of the mind
      - Beyond control
    - - Miracles experienced through dreams
    - - Enters mind
      - Vivid dream
      - Effect of dream is dramatic
    - - Pharos dream of the 7 year famine
      - Josephs dream to take Mary to Egypt to escape King Herod
- - - - Cannot be explained
    - - (uniqueness)
    - - tremendous and fascinating mystery
- - - - Ineffability
      - Noetic
      - Transiency
      - Passive
    - - 4 core elements which are the core to religious experiences
      - Religious experiences have led to organised religion. Religion is a response to the religious experience of our ancestors.
      - God exists- but not of classical theism, but one that's temporal
      - Religious life
        
        our world gains importance from the existence of a spiritual world
        
        The final and true end of humanity is union with a higher universe
        
        Prayer works
    - - Ineffability
        
        incapable of being expressed or described in words
      - Noetic quality
        
        Encounter gives insight into truth
        
        A revalation
      - Transience
        
        Life transforming effect on a persons life
      - Passivity
        
        Experience controls the mystic
  - - - Non-sensuous
      - Non-intellectual
      - Extrovertive
      - Introvertice
      - Ineffable
    - - Mysticism
        
        Non-sensuous (no physical senses)
        
        Non-intellectual
      - not a vision
    - - Extrovertive
        
        Sees the world of normal objects
        
        Objects are transfigured to non-sensuous unity shines through them
      - Introvertive
        
        Total suppression of sense experience