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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
An experience of a profound sense of God’s presence or union with the divine.
Used by Edexcel
Specification 1.4 · Paper 3
An experience of deep spiritual insight or closeness to God, sometimes described as union with God.
Revise: Religious Experiences as Argument for GodA mystical experience involves profound spiritual insight or closeness to God. A conversion experience changes someone’s religious beliefs or commitment. These descriptions can overlap: an encounter might produce both awe and a new direction in life.
Specification 2.4, 2.7, 2.2, 2.5 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
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Revise: Religious Experiences as ProofA mystical experience involves a profound sense of God’s presence or union with the divine. Visions and voices may be understood as divine communication. A conversion experience changes someone’s faith or religious commitment, sometimes transforming the direction of their life.
A direct spiritual experience, often involving a profound sense of unity or oneness with the divine.
A profound experience understood as direct awareness of, or closeness to, divine reality; it need not involve seeing an image.
A direct inward awareness of God or divine reality, rather than knowledge gained only through ordinary observation or reasoning.
