mystical visions
Supernatural spiritual experiences
Mystical visions are supernatural experiences in which a person perceives divine presence, spiritual truths, or otherworldly realms—often through vivid imagery, voices, or overwhelming feelings of unity with the sacred.
Saints report mystical visions of heaven; prophets receive them as revelation.
The term can describe genuine religious experience or, skeptically, hallucination dressed in spiritual language: She claimed mystical visions guided her, but her family suspected mental illness.
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- spirit worldRealm of the dead
- gnosisExperiential sacred understanding
- inner lightSpiritual guidance within oneself
- meditationFocused attention practice
chanting · speaking in tongues · trance · lucid dreaming · prayer · altered consciousness · out of body · near death experience · spiritual guidance · ancestral wisdom · sacred imagery · prophecy · Hermeticism · apparition · epiphany · hallucination · Kabbalah · divine revelation
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- occultwitchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, black magic, tarot
- Baroque sacred artaltarpiece, altarpieces, Catholic art, Catholic imagery, baroque art
- divine visionsvisions, divine revelation, apparitions, theophany, apocalyptic visions
- Christian Mysticismmystical union, divine union, contemplative life, dark night of the soul, mystical states
- Guru Traditionsparampara, disciples, master, spiritual lineage, darshan
mystical visionslogical deduction
Deriving conclusions from premises
empirical observation · scientific observation · scientific evidence · empirical evidence · material facts