Religious Experiences

3. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory"
7. Teresa of Ávila was a mystic who had many such visions
9. Numinous experiences
11. The experience controls the mystic, they cannot direct what happens
12. Introvertive and Extrovertive experiences
13. 'Mysterium ... et fascinans'
14. Refers to the short-lived nature of an experience
15. The ultimate mystical experience
16. Bernadette had 18 visions of this type

1. Used of experiences that do not involve the physical senses
2. Refers to the fact that something cannot be described
4. Visions which are meditated through 'the mind's eye'
5. Classified visions into three categories
6. The encounter gives a genuine insight into truths
8. Sense experience is still active, though objects are transfigured by the 'unity that shines through'
10. Derived four criteria for nature of religious expereince