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Religion
What role does interpretation
play in religious experience?
Who is God?
Religious Experience
all religions are founded on a bedrock of intense personal experiances
Perception
Sceptics
Mystics
Ex: mystic- god spoke to me in a dream
Sceptic- You dreamed that god spoke to you
Neuroscientists
- Epileptic seizures can result in religious experiances
People have claimed to see St. Paul,Joan of Arc
Canadian Neuroscientist; Michel Persinger has claimed
that he can actually create religious experiences in peolpe
by stimulating the temporal lobes of the brain
People tend to interpret religious experiences in terms of their own cultural traditions
*Buddhist - Virgin Mary
*Catholics - buddah
Suggests that they cannot simply be taken at face value
(only sees what person wants to see, subconscience)
No one accepts all such experiences
as valid:
? of distinguishing revelations from
delusions
ex: David Koresh, claimed to be
the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, but most
orthodox christians would dismiss the claim as
blasphemy
Why is it when we have
dreams or illusions we
only percieve our own
religious gods?