Hi 3WD!
Excellent definition of "religious experience''! William James is great.
Gary
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From: 3dwavedave <dlt44@ipa.net>
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> John
>
> You asked:
>
> > Can I ask how you define "religious experiences"?
>
> Well first I guess one would have to say under the MoQ it would have to
> be dynamic, "direct experience prior to intellectual abstraction"
> Further qualified by the definition of "religion" William James uses in
> his lecture "Circumscription of the Religious Topic" where he says:
>
> "Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbritrarily to take it, shall
> mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in
> their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation
> to whatever they may consider the divine."
>
> Or something like:
>
> Religous experience is, "direct experience prior to intellectual
> abstraction of individual men in their solitude, so far as they
> apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider
> the divine". These experiences, after intellectual abstraction, have
> been variously described as feelings of , "religious" fear, love, joy,
> awe,unity, and so forth.
>
> 3WD
>
>
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