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Mysticism

Studies of religious experience can be enhanced by an understanding of mysticism, as this revision spread shows

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A category within the broader context of religious experience in which we are overwhelmingly aware of the ultimate; utterly swept up in the presence of God. Intensely personal, otherworldly and transcendent; an experience in which the recipient in some way touches and communicates with the divine and with levels of reality beyond those of the spatiotemporal world.

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