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I had one too! Lasted less than five seconds but it felt like 'the hand of God' passed through me - that's the best way I can describe it. William James descr
by TimedToasts 4y ago
I had one too!
Lasted less than five seconds but it felt like 'the hand of God' passed through me - that's the best way I can describe it.
William James described a religious experience as having four qualities:
- Ineffable: the experience is incapable of being described and must be directly experienced to be understood.
- Noetic: the experience is understood to be a state of knowledge through which divine truths can be learned.
- Transient: the experience is of limited duration.
- Passivity: the subject of the experience is passive, unable to control the arrival and departure of the experience.
...and that tracks 100% with how I experienced mine.