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Religious And Mystical Experience

Published on Nov 06, 2015

Religious and mystical experiences open a window to the mysterious and the essential in human understanding.

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religious experience?

What would you count as a
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Religious Experience

  • Some kind of feeling?
  • Centered on a divine being?
  • Different from other experiences?
  • Solitary or with others?
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  • Sacred - religion
  • Profane - everything else
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The Holy

mysterium tremendum et fascinans
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Experience

  • Awe and fear
  • Unapproachable
  • Power, energy, urgency
  • Wholly 'otherness'
  • Fascination, attraction
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"What we value we raise to the level of the sacred."

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Sacred Experience

  • meaningful interpretation of events
  • feeling of relatedness to others
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Non-rational Religious Experiences

  • Vary in intensity
  • Vary in frequency
  • Vary in context
  • Vary in content
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Religious experiences

Those who value them, have them
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References

  • Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
  • Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of The Holy
  • Roberts, Keith. Religion in Sociological Perspective
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Barry Casey

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