An introduction to religious and spiritual experience

How to Know God, The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of 
Mysteries 
(USA 2000) (2001) Rider, London. p. 17.
52 Taken from a paper entitled 
The Varıetıes Of Relıgıous Experıence Of 
Muslıms In Turkey: Some Results Of A Natıonal Survey in 2006–07
by Prof. 
Dr. Cafer Sadık Yaran of Istanbul University at the 2007 BASR Conference 
in Edinburgh.
53 
The Cloud of Unknowing
edited by William Johnston (1997) Fount 
Paperbacks, London. p. 15.
54 Ibid. p. 16.
55 His Holiness the Dalai Lama 
How to Practise, the Way to a Meaningful Life
Translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins (2002) Rider, London. p.134.
56 Sandy & Jael Bharat 
A Global Guide to Interfaith, Reflections from Around 
the World 
(2007) O Books, Hants. p. 44.
57 Experience given to author on 21.3.08.
58 Lao Tsu 
Tao Te Ching
translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English (1973, 
1986) Wildwood, Hants. p. 56.
59 Mother Meera 
Answers 
(1991) Rider, London. p. 53.
60 Experience given to author on 23.3.08.
61 Bede Griffiths 
Return to the Centre
(1976) (2003) Medio Media, USA. p. 3.
62 Gélineau, Alain-René 
The Poetry of Transcendence
(1984) Argel, Paris. 
p. 50.
63 Eric Gladwin 
Peaceful Reflections for the New Millenium, Healing Poems 
and Prayers
(1994, 2000) Harmony Publications, England. p.12.
64 Paul Hawken 
The Magic of Findhorn
(1976) Fontana GB pp. 120, 123. 
65 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4181237.stm consulted on 24.2.2008.
66 Shirley du Boulay 
The Road to Canterbury, A Modern Pilgrimage
(1994) 
Harper Collins, London. p. 232.
67 Blogging Ramadan Website consulted on 20.3.08.
68 Bharat, Sandy and Jael 
Touched by Truth, A Contemporary Hindu Anthology
(2006) William Sessions, York. p. 116.
69 Anita Billington, first published in 
The Friends’ Quarterly
Vol. 25, No. 7, 
July 1989. pp. 298–299.
70 Sandy & Jael Bharat 
A Global Guide to Interfaith, Reflections from Around 
the World
(2007) O Books, Hants. p. 45.

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71 Meg Maxwell and Verena Tschudin 
Seeing the Invisible 
(1990, Penguin) 
(2005) RERC, Lampeter. pp.116–117.
72 Daniel O’Leary ‘Mystery in a drop of wine’ in 
The Tablet
, 16 June 2007. 
http://www.thetablet.co.uk.
73
Quoted in Alister Hardy 
The Spiritual Nature of Man, A Study of 
 Contemporary Religious Experience 
(1979) OUP, reprinted RERC, 1997. 
pp. 93–94.
74 John McCarthy and Jill Morrell 
Some Other Rainbow
quoted in Madeleine 
Hill 
Time Stood Still.
p. 102.
75 Eckhart Tolle 
The Power of Now
(1999 USA) (2001) Hodder and Stoughton, 
London. pp.1–2.
76 Neale Donald Walsch, 
Conversations with God, An Uncommon Dialogue
(1995 USA) (1997) Hodder and Stoughton, London. Book 1. p. 1.
77 Quoted in Wa’Na’Nee’Che (Dennis Renault) and Timothy Freke 
Principles 
of
Native American Spirituality
(1996) Thorsons, California. p. 35.
78 Alain-René Gélineau 
The Poetry of Transcendence
(1984) Argel, Paris. 
p. 92.
79 Alister Hardy 
The Spiritual Nature of Man.
p. 82.
80 Werner Hofmann 
Caspar David Friedrich
(2000) Thames & Hudson, 
London. pp. 19 and 26.
81 Experience given to author on 29.2.08.
82 Experience given to author on 29.2.08.
83 Experience given to author on 29.2.08.
84 David Hay with Rebecca Nye in