What is another word for religious experience?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪlˈɪd͡ʒəs ɛkspˈi͡əɹɪəns] (IPA)

Religious experience refers to an individual's personal encounter with the divine or supernatural. There are several synonyms for this term, including spiritual experience, mystical encounter, transcendent experience, and divine revelation. A spiritual experience generally denotes a deep sense of connection with a higher power, while mystical encounter implies a direct experience of the divine. Transcendent experience is a heightened state of consciousness that transcends the physical world, and divine revelation suggests that the individual has received a message or knowledge from a deity. Other synonyms include sacred encounter, numinous experience, and religious revelation, all of which describe a unique and powerful experience that has a profound impact on the individual's beliefs and worldview.

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Famous quotes with Religious experience

  • While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
    Joseph Barbera
  • Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
    Mary Daly
  • Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
    Muhammed Iqbal
  • The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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  • Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
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