religious visions
Sacred supernatural experiences
Religious visions are experiences in which a person perceives divine beings, sacred scenes, or spiritual revelations—typically through sight but sometimes involving other senses.
Visions may come during prayer, meditation, near-death states, or unbidden: She had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
They hold central importance in many faith traditions, where prophets and saints receive guidance through visions.
Whether understood as genuine contact with the divine or as products of the mind varies by belief and interpretation.
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- sacred mushroomsPsychoactive fungi for rituals
- meditationFocused attention practice
- inner lightSpiritual guidance within oneself
- prophecyForetelling of future events
speaking in tongues · revelation · dissociation · Hildegard of Bingen · mysticism · ecstasy · out of body · near death experience · trance · iconography · dream · grace · apparition · Virgin Mary · burning bush · road to Damascus · epiphany · apocalypse
- Italian sacred literatureDante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Paradiso, Beatrice
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- visionsapparition, dream, dreams, apparitions, prophetic dreams
- Medieval Womenabbess, noblewoman, lady, queen, duchess
- mystical statesecstasy, rapture, mystical union, divine union, samadhi
- entheogensayahuasca, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, sacred mushrooms
religious visionsempirical observation
Facts gathered through senses
delusions · hallucinations · scientific evidence · psychotic episodes · mental illness
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