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Religious experience

And as mystical experiences can also be called religious experiences in some cultures and contexts, i think the better opiton is to redirect the adrees 'mystical experiences' to the 'religious experience'.

and the article 'mysticism' dont focus on the 'mystical/religious experience' itself.

Mateus Zica (talk) 16:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

indeed, mystical - religious. For now this wiki is a (partial) recap of the subj history. I guess valuable add-ons would be: Doblin, 1991 ("Pahnke's..") following by Griffiths' team work (at Johns Hopkins). It would be: religious research, (btw Clark, 1958 "social science define religion"), questionnaire(s) defining religious experience, segway into questionnaires defining mystical/spiritual experience, ending up with MEQ30. Plus some fMRI brainscans under entheogens and meditation-by-monks. That would make a clearer wiki? 2A01:E0A:A19:C8F0:918B:66EC:EF0F:DE23 (talk) 17:12, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Move

I've moved the "Mystical experience" sections from Mysticism to Mystical experience, for the obvious reason that this is a related, yet distinct concept. "Mysticism" is moe than "mstical experience." Mysticism is primarily about personal transformation, of which mystical experiences may be a part. "Mystical experiences" as such refer to specific experiences, for which explanations and similarities are beig sought by scholars, and which can also happen spontaneously, apart from any " mystical practice." Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 09:29, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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From Religious experience: "Stanford Encyclopdeia of Philosophy, ''Transcendentalism''". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
From Mysticism: "Gellman, Jerome, "Mysticism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2013-11-06.

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Terminology

This article says that the term "mystical experience" has become synonymous with "religious experience", but I beg to differ. Surely mystical experience involves a sense of union with the Divine, which religious experience does not necessarily have?Vorbee (talk) 11:03, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]