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Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Teresa" Even though St. Teresa was a great mystic of the Christian faith and she had visions like this one, visions are not part of mystical experience per se. This article is a summary my book, the Trace of God by Joseph Hinman ( available on Amazon ). I recently posted essays showing that the true Christian concept of Supernatural is mystical experience nothing more. Now I show mystical experience is empirical, thus SN is empirical. The argument from religious experience is deemed too subjective to be of any real interest to rationally minded skeptics. Yet over the last 50 years, a huge body of empirical scientific work has emerged in peer reviewed journals that strengthens the case for religious experience as a God argument. Unfortunately, this body of work is largely confined to psychology of religion and is virtually unknown to theology or even religious studies. In this paper I examine the research methods used in this ...

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...

Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa* on the blog arguments for atheism. ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD - ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Argument | The Refutation They begin by asserting: The Religious Experience Argument posits that one can only perceive that which exists, and so God must exist because there are those that have experienced him. My arguments do not proceed from this premise. I make two arguments in the trace of God. The first proceeds from the reasonable assertion that we are warranted to trust our experiences, thus we are justified in believing on that basis. The second argument is based upon the premise that our only rational epistemic assumption must of necessity be based upon the results of experiences. Since religious experiences are proven scientifically to correlate with positive outcomes we are warranted in assuming their reality. argument 1 Co-determinate: The co-determinate is like the Derridian trace, or like a f...