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Mind Map by Alice Buchanan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alice Buchanan
over 9 years ago
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Types of Religious Experience
- MYSTICAL
- A direct and
intimate
experience
from God. An
individual feels
a sense of
'union' with a
perfect being
that is
omnipotent
and
incomparable
to anything
human.
- Characteristics:
- Ineffability: the experience
cannot be communicated in
normal speech, a private
event with certain
sensations that are beyond
verbal descriptions
- Passivity: occurs without any action on the part of the recipient, losing control.
- Transiency: only lasts for a limited time.
- Noetic Quality:
the mind gaining
knowledge and
understanding
through intuition
and perception,
and the certainty
of God's presence.
- Ineffability: the experience
cannot be communicated in
normal speech, a private
event with certain
sensations that are beyond
verbal descriptions
- A direct and
intimate
experience
from God. An
individual feels
a sense of
'union' with a
perfect being
that is
omnipotent
and
incomparable
to anything
human.
- CONVERSION
- Leads to an
individual
adopting a new
religion or way
of life that
differs from
their previous
ways, for a
non-religious it
may lead to a
belief in God.
- Self-surrender
- Unconscious and Involuntary
- Unconscious and Involuntary
- Volitional
- Conscious and Voluntary
- Conscious and Voluntary
- Leads to an
individual
adopting a new
religion or way
of life that
differs from
their previous
ways, for a
non-religious it
may lead to a
belief in God.
- VISIONS
- When an individual believes
that they have seen or heard
something supernatural from
a supernatural being..
- Intellectual Vision
- Brings
knowledge and
understanding.
Connected with
the
consciousness
of the presence
of God.
- Brings
knowledge and
understanding.
Connected with
the
consciousness
of the presence
of God.
- Corporeal Vision
- The figure is externally
present.
- The figure is externally
present.
- Imaginary Vision
- Something that
strengthens
faith when seen
in the mind's eye.
- Something that
strengthens
faith when seen
in the mind's eye.
- When an individual believes
that they have seen or heard
something supernatural from
a supernatural being..
- CORPORATE
- Group experiences.
- Group experiences.
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