User:Mateuszica/Experiencia Religiosa
Entities
[edit]- Ego death
- Divine Science
- Faith healing
- The Fourth Way
- Ghost Dance (Nineteenth century Native American)
- Mystery religions
- National mysticism
- Nazi mysticism
- Near-death experience
- New Thought
- Occult
- Psychedelic experience
- Religious Science
- Religious Society of Friends
- The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (Rosicrucian)
- Theistic Satanism
- Thelemic mysticism (Thelema)
- Transcendentalism (Unitarianism)
- Unity
- Wicca
- Ascetism
- Christian mysticism
- Yoga (Hinduism)
- Vedanta (Hinduism)
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Zen (Buddhism)
- Gnosticism (Christian)
- Hesychasm (Eastern Orthodox)
- Kabbalah (Judaism)
- Christian Kabbalah (Christian)
- Sufism (Islam)
- Taoism
- Bahá'í Faith
Causes of religious experiences
[edit]- Meditation[1]
- Praying [2]
- Rituals
- Breathing exercise
- Fasting
- Music [3]
- Dance, such as:
- Chanting of mantras or holy names.
- Worship
- Dhikr
- Mortification of the flesh[5]
- Asceticism
- Profound sexual activity,[6] or sexual practises such as:
- Use of Entheogens, such as:
- Stimulation of the brain with magnetic fields (see God helmet)
- Psychological or neurophysiological anomalies, such as:
- Near-death experience[15]
- ^ "'Divining the brain" Salon.com (URL accessed on September 20, 2006)
- ^ "'Exploring the biology of religious experience" NRC online
- ^ "'The Emotional Effects of Music on Religious Experience: A Study of the Pentecostal-Charismatic Style of Music and Worship " Sage Journals
- ^ "'ufis seek ultimate religious experience through mystic trances or altered states of consciousness, often induced through twirling dances " Sufism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary
- ^ "'Self-inflicted Pain in Religious Experience " www.faithfaq.com (URL accessed on july 11, 2006)
- ^ *Deida, David. Finding God Through Sex ISBN 1-59179-273-8
- ^ "'Psychedelics and Religious Experience " Alan Watts http://deoxy.org/ (URL accessed on july 11, 2006)
- ^ "'Those who think of the salvia experience in religious, spiritual, or mystical terms may speak of such things as enlightenment, satori, and "cleansing the doors of perception." " sagewisdom.org (URL accessed on august 26, 2007)
- ^ "'A Note on the Safety of Peyote when Used Religiously. " www.csp.org Council on Spiritual Practices (URL accessed on july 11, 2006)
- ^ "'Drug's Mystical Properties Confirmed " www.washingtonpost.com (URL accessed on july 11, 2006)
- ^ "'The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach. " Conuncil on Spiritual Practices (URL accessed on july 11, 2006)
- ^ Katie, Byron. Loving What Is page xi ISBN 1-4000-4537-1
- ^ "'God on the Brain " http://news.bbc.co.uk (URL accessed on March 20, 2003)
- ^ "My Stroke of Insight" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html (URL accessed on July 22008)
- ^ Moody, Raymond. Life After Life ISBN 0-06-251739-2