Author: Mineo M
Affiliation: Dept of English Literature, Bukkyo Univ. (Kyoto, Japan)
Conference/Journal: J Intl Soc Life Info Science
Date published: 2002
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Volume ID: 20 , Issue ID: 2 , Pages: 466 , Word Count: 141
The religious experience, especially the Christian one, gives humans an enormous amount of spiritual energy and new life. (This presentation is limited to my personal experience.) This may be termed a personal version of William James, Some Aspects of Religious Experience. The Christian Religious Experience is typically characterized by eight elements: 1) repentance of sins, 2) real sense of forgiveness of sins by the Son of God, 3) a flood of joy wells up in the heart, 4) reaching the universe - a sense of becoming like a pin in the great vastness of the spiritual universe, feeling oneself disappearing into the expanse of the universe, 5) the senses and intellect become sharply alive, 6) the sense of the conscience becoming exceptionally sharp, 7) a sense of feeling that this world is desperately fallen, 8) feeling always at one with a personal Transcendental Being from whom comes pure joy.