An introduction to religious and spiritual experience

The Spirit of the Child
(1998, revised 
edition 2006) HarperCollins, London. p. 100.
85 Ibid . p.100.
86 Paul McQuillan 
Encounters Beyond the Pond: The Limit Experience of 
Senior High School Students
Occasional Paper 34 RERC, Lampeter. p. 44.
87 Ibid. p. 49.
88 Quoted from 
Waiting on God
by Simone Weil in Stephen Plant 
Simone Weil
Fount Christian Thinkers (1996) Fount, London. p. 9.
89 Hugh Montefiore 
The Paranormal, A Bishop Investigates
(2002) Upfront 
Publishing, Leicester. pp. 234–235.
90 C. S. Lewis 
Surprised by Joy
(1977) Fount Paperbacks, London. p. 182.
91 Hay, David 
Religious Experience Today 
1990 Mowbray, London. p. 2.
92 Ibid. 2562. p. 101.
93 Taken from ‘The contribution of the study of spiritual experience to spiritual 
care in the health service.’ Part 1 by Hilary Knight in 
De Numine
No. 34, 
February 2003.
94 Ibid. 4426. pp. 101–102.
95 Eileen Caddy ‘My personal experience with guidance’ in 
Caduceus
Issue 71. 
p. 10.
96 www.thebrahmosamaj.org
97 
A Tagore Testament
Translated from the original Bengali of Rabindranath 
Tagore by Indu Dutt (1969) Jaico Publishing House, India. pp. 52–53, 68–69.

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98 Quoted in Madeleine Hill 
Time Stood Still.
pp. 54–55.
99 www.taize.fr/en_article338.html consulted in January 2005.
100 www.taize.fr/en_article102.html consulted in January 2005.
101 Quoted from 
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila
, tr. J. M. Cohen, (1957) 
Penguin Books. p. 180 in Shirley du Boulay Teresa of Avila (1991) Hodder 
and Stoughton, London. p. 52.
102 Obituary in the 
Daily Telegraph.
16.1.08.
103 Quoted from Simone Weil 
Waiting on God
in 
Simone Weil
by Stephen Plant 
(1996) Fount, London. p. 53.
104 Ninian Smart 
The Spiritual Experience of Mankind 
(1969) Charles 
Scribner’s Sons, NY.
105 R. Balmer 
Religion in 20
th
 Century America
(2001) OUP quoted in 
Newberg and Waldman 
Why We Believe What We Believe
(2006) Free 
Press, NY.
106 Quoted from 
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila
, tr. J. M. Cohen, (1957) 
Penguin Books. p. 192 in Shirley du Boulay 
Teresa of Avila
(1991) Hodder 
and Stoughton, London. p. 54.
107 Heathcote-James, Emma 
Seeing Angels
(2001) John Blake, London. p. 165.
108 Ibid. p. 125.
109 Experiences given to author on 22.3.08.
110 Aldous Huxley 
The Doors of Perception
(1994) Flamingo, London. 
pp. 7–8.
111 Neale Donald Walsch 
Communion with God, An Uncommon Dialogue
(2000) Hodder and Stoughton, London. p. 4.
112 Quoted in Peter Russell 
From Science to God, A Physicist’s Journey into 
the
Mystery of Consciousness
(2002, 2003) New World Library, California. 
p. 115.
113 Quoted in 
The Rumi Collection
edited by Kabir Helminski. p. 22.
114 John V. Taylor 
The Christlike God
(1992) SCM Press, London.
115 First printed in the 
Prison Phoenix Trust Newsletter
Winter 2007.
116 Jakobsen, Marete Demant 
Negative Spiritual Experiences: Encounters with 
Evil 
(1999) RERC, Lampeter. p. 8.
117 Ibid. p. 10.
118 Ibid. p. 36.
119 Stephen Parsons 
Ungodly Fear, Fundamentalist Christianity and the Abuse