“Religious experiences can be characterised generally as experiences that seem—to the person having them—to be of some objective reality, and to have some religious import. That reality can be an individual, a state of affairs, a fact, or even an absence, depending on the religious tradition the experience is a part of[1].”
For many theists, religious experiences are crucial elements in the alloy of their conviction. Ask a believer to defend their belief and they may offer apologetics or appeal to faith, but press them on how they personally came to believe or why they remain a believer, and there is a sporting chance that religious experiences play a decisive role[2].
Are religious experiences evidence of the divine? I used to believe so, but I do not anymore.
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The Amber Restorative 