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Religious Experience books

Below are the best books we could find on Religious Experience.

Sometimes we encounter an experience that feels so profound and unexpected that it defies our expectations of the rational, physical world. Different religious traditions offer varying frameworks for interpreting these experiences, but all agree that these experiences seem to connect us with an expanded consciousness, higher power, or a fundamental truth about existence. They can feel like a moment where previous mysteries are clarified, and deep existential questions are answered with firmness and simplicity. They frequently seem to come “out of nowhere,” or are at least beyond our control or expectation, and rarely last very long. What—if anything—can cause or stimulate these experiences is of great interest to seekers and scientists alike.

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The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values

Exploring the bright future of psychedelics, Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., reveals how new uses for entheogens will enrich individuals as well as society as a whole. With contributions from Charles Grob, M.D., and Roger N. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

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Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly three decades of legal research with volunteers, William A.

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Holistic Islam: Sufism, Transformation, and the Needs of Our Time

Islam once gave birth to a great civilization that respected religious diversity, freedom of conscience, and scientific thought, and Islamic knowledge contributed to the birth of humanism in the Renaissance.

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Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy

Changing Our Minds is an experiential tour through a social, spiritual and scientific revolution that is redefining our culture’s often-confusing relationship with psychoactive substances.

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Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience

Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions―St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Rūzbihān Baqlī―Anthony J. Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions.

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The Ayahuasca Experience: A Sourcebook on the Sacred Vine of Spirits

An exploration of the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of ayahuasca • Details the scientific discovery of ayahuasca’s sophisticated psychoactive delivery system in the brain and body and its potential applications in medicine and psychology • Includes...

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Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience

The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees.

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Toward a Theology of Migration: Social Justice and Religious Experience

Offering a theology of migration, Cruz reflects on the Christian vision of 'one bread, one body, one people' in view of the gifts and challenges of contemporary migration to Christian spirituality, mission, and inculturation and the need for reform of migration policies based on the experience of...

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Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from The Perspective of Jungian Psychology

Jungian analysts Vlado Solc and George J. Didier set out to explore the psychological dynamics and causes of religious fundamentalism and fanaticism. The book offers an in-depth-psychological analysis of what happens when a person becomes possessed by the unconscious energies of the Self.

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Seeing Angels: How to Recognize and Interact with Your Heavenly Messengers

A recent study found that 57 percent of Catholics, 66 percent of Evangelical Protestants, and 10 percent of Jews have reported having a personal experience with a guardian angel. And 20 percent of those who identified themselves as having no religion also claimed having encountered an angel.

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