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16 Cards in this Set
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Group Visions |
Seen by more than one person. |
Come on really... |
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Individual Visions |
Seen by one person. |
Don't be an idiot... |
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Corporeal Visions |
The object is external but only visible to certain people. |
Eg. Appearances of Angels. |
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Imaginative Visions |
The image is produced in the persons imagination and has no existence external to the person. |
Inside... |
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Conversion Experience |
A process of change that alters one's view of the world, and one's personal place in it. |
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Mystical Experiences |
An experience that alters the state of consciousness and brings people to claim a new awareness of ultimate reality. |
Eg. Communion with God |
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Extrovertive (outward looking) |
Where the plurality of objects in the world is transfigured into a single living entity. |
Eg. 'I saw that the universe is not composed of dead matter, but is, on the contrary, a living presence.' |
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Introvertive (inward looking) |
Where a person loses their identity as a separate individual and merges slowly into the divine unity. |
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Ineffability |
No adequate account of the experience can be given in words. |
Explanation? |
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Noetic quality |
They are states that allow apparent insight into the depths of truths unobtainable by the intellect alone. |
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Transiency |
The states cannot be maintained for long periods of time.Though they are remembered, they are imperfectly recalled. |
The receiver feels important. |
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Passivity |
There is a sense of feeling that one is taken over by a superior power. |
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The Purgative State |
The mystic is purified prepared for the experience through meditation. |
St Bonaventure, three staged of a mystic experience. |
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The illuminative stage |
The mystic is affected by both his intellect and his feelings |
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The unitive stage |
The mystic gains a continuing union woth the divine. |
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Cumulative argument |
A collection of arguments that together increase the persuasiveness of the case. |
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