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religious experience - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ineffability - indescribable
      - transiency - short duration
      - passivity - not controlled by subject
      - noetic quality - subject knowledge is an important truth - has epistemological value
- - - - doesn't count for corporal religious exp?
    - - Freud'd theory doesn't undermine the possibility that rel exp are experiences from God
      - we can't evaluate the truth of something just by its origin - we should evaluate it by the effects it has
      - the unconscious could be a conduit of spiritual reality
      - if we were made by God one of our greatest desires would be to have a relationship with him anyway
    - - unconscious - seeks father figure (God)
      - conscious - worships father figure
    - - some have rel exp with no experience of religion
      - ineffable x= delusional
      - reductionist
      - over emphasis of the unconscious mind
- - - - e.g: C.S Lewis - reluctant convert
      - Cat Stevens - Christianity -> Islam
    - - e.g Saul -> Paul (Damascene conversion)
      - Nicky Cruz
  - - - dissatisfaction -> search for answers -> point of crisis (presence of God) -> sense of peace -> change in direction
- - - - religious experience is self- authenticating - requires no other evidence to see if it's genuine
  - - - Hick - develops - 'seeing as' -> 'experiencing as'