Degrees of hallucinatoriness and Christic visions
This paper examines the feasibility of the claim that perceptual experience might lie on a continuum, so that lifelikeness, and correlatively, that hallucinatoriness might occur in degrees. The first-hand accounts of twenty-eight people reporting a vision of Christ provide the basis for identifying...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications Ltd.
2004
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Archive for the psychology of religion
Year: 2004, Volume: 26, Pages: 201-222 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vision
/ Hallucination
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | This paper examines the feasibility of the claim that perceptual experience might lie on a continuum, so that lifelikeness, and correlatively, that hallucinatoriness might occur in degrees. The first-hand accounts of twenty-eight people reporting a vision of Christ provide the basis for identifying the categories by which experiences are compared. Three specific vision accounts are used to show the plausibility of claiming that hallucinatoriess might vary in degree. Some comments on the psychological aspects of these visionary experiences upon the lives of those who experience them are also made. |
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| ISSN: | 0084-6724 |
| Contains: | In: Archive for the psychology of religion
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