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religious experience - Coggle Diagram

- - - - private experience that makes sense only to other mystics
      - defy expression
    - - encounter gives a genuine insight into truths
      - non rational and intuitive knowledge
    - - short, no longer than 1-2 hours
      - the soul is fully awoke now due to experience
    - - controls the mystic, whose will is unable to direct what happens
      - result in unusual activity eg Teresea of Avila levitated
  - - - James research into experiences within religion lets him conclude they are all very similar
      - experience same ultimate reality
      - interpretation diff due to diff religion beliefs
      - not all are religious
    - - what is true is whatever has the great value to us as the Ruth is not fixed
      - truth is found in religion but there isn't one truth which all experience relates to
  - - - EXTROVERTIVE
        
        reports that they feel a part of everything that is and that all is one
        
        = these people see the world how it is but objects are transfigured = non-sensuous unity shines through them
      - INTROVERTIVE
        
        achieves total suppression of sense experience in which awareness of the world is completely obliterated
        
        mystical consciousness replaces ordinary conciouness
- - - - saw Jesus Christ for who he really was = not an image but a presense
      - 'I saw nothing with the eyes of the body'