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Religious Experiences - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Example: seeing an angel or God
    - - Examples: feelings of ascension, descension, or intuition
    - - Examples: conversing in the mind to a non-physical object
- - - - Mysterium - experience that cannot be understood or described - cannot reason our way to them
      - Tremendum - terrifying and overwhelming, provokes fear and dependence on God
      - Sui generis - of its own kind, like no other experience
      - Fascinans - fascinating and attractive, provokes a longing for a relationship with God
- - - - Ineffability - beyond language, cannot be understood
      - Noetic quality - some kind of revelatory knowledge is gained during the experience
      - Passivity - happens TO the individual, not brought on by the individual
      - Transiency - only a temporary experience