:Argument from Religious Experience:Answering Arguments for Atheism part 2
Notice in these arguments every single argument they make is flatly contradicted bya pile of studies, the artheists are totally un aware of this fact. Atheist: Opponents of the Religious Experience Argument claim that religious experiences involve imagination rather than perception, Hinman Clearly its more than just imagination, if any is involved, because the effects are real. I devote several chapters in the book to proving this. I discuss study after study. Wuthnow, Robert (1978). "Peak Experiences: Some Empirical Tests." Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 18 (3), 59-75. Noble, Kathleen D. (1987). ``Psychological Health and the Experience of Transcendence.'' The Counseling Psychologist, 15 (4), 601-614. Lukoff, David & Francis G. Lu (1988). ``Transpersonal psychology research review: Topic: Mystical experiences.'' Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 20 (2), 161-184. Roger Walsh (1980). The consciousness disciplines and the behavior...