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Unit 3: Religious Experience - Coggle Diagram

- - - - seeing something as externally present
      - Moses and the burning bush
      - Miracle of the sun at Fatima
    - - seen with the mind, not the eye
      - Bring knowledge, certainty, understanding
      - "Jesus Christ stands by her side although she seems Him neither with the eyes of the body nor the soul. Teresa of Avila
    - - Individual, coherent, revelation
      - Jacob's ladder
  - - - Acts 2 - Pentecost
      - Billy Graham
    - - No faith to faith - C.S. Lewis conversion "I am telling the story of two lives. They have nothing to do with each other; oil and vinegar."
      - From one faith to another "The natural conclusion of any intelligent theologians journey. All scripture study leads to Islam" Sinead O'Connor
      - Strengthening faith - John and Charles Wesley founders of the methodist movement described an experience of strengthened faith.
    - - stages of conversion
        
        divided self
        
        Desire for relief
        
        self surrender
  - - - non-rational
      - Removal of self-ego
      - spontaneous/ non-rational
      - Induced through ritual (theurgic)
        
        Whirling Dervishes
        
        Ascetics
    - - Transcendent
      - Noetic
      - Ecstatic
      - Ineffable
      - Unitive
  - - - Petition
      - Repentance
      - Thanksgiving
      - Worship
    - - Contemplative/ meditative prayer
        
        deep reflective prayer to focus the mind
        
        Types and stages of prayer inspirired by intellectual vision
      - Garden Analogy
        
        Windlass
        
        River
        
        Bucket
        
        Rain - union of the soul with the Divine
      - The Seven Mansions
        
        outside edge, cold, full of distractions, difficult
        
        2.
        
        3.
        
        Restful, early stage of mysticism
        
        5.
        
        6.
        
        Mystical marriage, complete union with God.
- - - - Ineffable
      - Noetic
      - Passive
      - Transient
    - - Pluralism - studied different faiths (same ultimate reality, different religion)
      - Pragmatism - truth is based on what is valuable
      - Empiricism - lots of case studies - clues
  - - - numinous = supernatural/ divine power
      - non-intellectual/ non-rational (not against reason, but doesn't require it)
      - Nature of NE
        
        dread/ terror
        
        A sense of the persons insignificance in presence of God (creature consciousness)
        
        'Wholly other'
        
        Fascination and attraction
        
        Rapture or ecstasy
      - Myserium Tremendum et Fascinans
        
        Awe, fear, dread
        
        Pull/ attraction
        
        Mystery
      - Holy (Heilig) is ambiguous term. Schemeatized
      - C.S. Lewis
- - - - individual experiences valid even if non-verifiable
      - one-off experiences can still be valid even if never repeated
      - claims could be genuine - integrity
        of individual
  - - - Karl Popper
      - Anthony Flew
      - Wayne Proudfoot