A Religious Experience

A detailed Summary of A Religious Experience

I have been thinking about what a "religious experience"

means to me for some time now. When I first started this class I

have to admit that I thought that I could only have a religious

experience if I followed my religion (Catholicism). My views have

now changed. I am not really sure if I now what a religous

experience is but what I do know is that it contains a sacrifice of

the ego, and an understanding of imperminence. A person does

don't have to have a specific religion in oder to have a "religious

In "Lame Deer-Seeker of Visions" the grandmother had most

definetly had a religious experience because she willingly

underwent the two elements that I feel are essentual to having a

religous experience. She cut forty pieces of her arm and gave it to

her grandson for strenght. Giving pieces of your skin have to be

among the greatest sacrifices that anyone can make. She

understude that she was part of a greater whole, and that she

wasn't the most singficant part of this whole. She also understode

that the our psysical fitures don't live forever and that giving them

I think of a religious experience as

The Middle path living without the extremes of either hedonism or

memory should be good enough. Etty like the Buddha learned to

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