Concept
Mystical or religious experience
Overview
experience interpreted within a religious framework
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Through the practice of orison the higher levels of mystical experience may be attained. It is odd that Protestantism, especially evangelical Protestantism, should seemingly have abandoned everything methodical in this line.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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This is why it seems to me that the logical understanding, working in abstraction from such specifically religious experiences, will always omit something, and fail to reach completely adequate conclusions. Death and failure, it will always say, _are_ death and failure simply, and can nevermore be one with life; so religious experience, peculiarly so called, needs, in my opinion, to be carefully considered and…
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
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The immediate reaction of human nature to the religious vision is worship. Religion has emerged into human experience mixed with the crudest fancies of barbaric imagination. Gradually, slowly, steadily the vision recurs in history under nobler form and with clearer expression. It is the one element in human experience which persistently shows an upward trend. It fades and then recurs.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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Philosophers who discussed Mystical or religious experience
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Philip K. Dick
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Swami Vivekananda
- Rudolf Otto
- William James
- Osho
- Utpaladeva
Related ideas
- Belief
- Ritual
- Subjective character of experience
- Jesus
- The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Gnosticism
- Hinduism
- Contemplation
- Immanuel Kant
- Personalism
- Philosophy of social science
- Linji Yixuan
- Zazen
- Transcendentalism
- Transcendence (philosophy)
- Helena Blavatsky
- The Perennial Philosophy
- Buddhahood
- Moksha
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Five Ranks
- Ken Wilber
- Music
- Metaphysics
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Agnosticism.
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