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In religious experience, or sacred experience, the believer comes in contact with transcendental reality. Habel defines religious experiences as the structured way in which a believer enters into a relationship with, or gains an awareness of, the sacred within the context of a particular religious tradition (Habel, O'Donoghue and Maddox: 1993).
Religious experiences are by their very nature preternatural; experiences that are out of the ordinary, they are beyond the natural order of things. They include psychopathological states such as psychoses, forms of altered awareness and religious experiences (Charlesworth: 1988).
Not all preternatural experiences are considered to be religious experiences. Following Habel's definition, psychopathological states or drug-induced states of awareness are not considered to be religious experiences because they are mostly not performed within the context of a particular religious tradition.
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just finished up dinner at Jina Yoo's. So delicious. It's always a religious experience. God bless Jina. Fun night ahead. :-)
CooperCraigM (Craig M. Cooper) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:38:39 -0000
just finished up dinner at Jina Yoo's. So delicious. It's always a religious experience. God bless Jina. Fun night ahead. :-)
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@lipstattoo "are you having a religious experience or did you pee your pants?"... I find they happen at the same time usually
HorrorExtreme (HorrorExtreme) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:33:12 -0000
@lipstattoo "are you having a religious experience or did you pee your pants?"... I find they happen at the same time usually
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Alister Hardy Trust: Religious Experience Research Centre - Interdisciplinary centre based at the University of Wales. Includes details of current and previous research projects, forthcoming events, and an MA course studying religious and spiritual experiences.
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Neurology of Spiritual Experiences - Articles on spiritual experience and magnetic signal brain stimulation by one of Michael Persinger's students.
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Psychology of Religious Experience - Transcript from the Thinking Allowed TV series of Jeffrey Mishlove interviewing Huston Smith.
TASTE - The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences - Collection of accounts of experiences. New accounts can be added online.
The Varieties of Religious Experience - Full text of the celebrated book by William James, originally published in 1902.
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