An introduction to religious and spiritual experience

Before I Die Again
(1992) Constable, London. p. 78.
197 Ibid. p. 81.
198 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ‘Death does not exist’ in 
On Life After Death
(1991) 
Celestial Arts, USA. p. 24.
199 Quoted with permission from www.elisabethkublerross.com
200 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 
The Wheel of Life, A Memoire of Living and Dying
(1997, 199) Bantam, UK. p. 288.
201 Du Boulay, Shirley and Rankin, Marianne 
Cicely Saunders, The Founder 
of the
Modern Hospice Movement
(2007) SPCK, London. p. 27.
202 Ibid. p. 28.
203 Brown, Gordon 
Courage, Eight Portraits
(2007) Bloomsbury, London. 
p. 218.
204 Quotes from 
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
(1991) Penguin, 
London. in Nobel Prize acceptance speech given on 10
th
December 1991 
from nobelprize.org website consulted on 13.4.08.
205 Eric Clapton, 
The Autobiography
(2007) Century, London. p. 257.
206 Ibid. p. 280.

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207 James, William 
The Varieties of Religious Experience, A Study in Human 
Nature
(2002) Special Centenary Edition, Routledge, London, NY and 
Canada. pp. 186, 187.
208 Hardy, Alister 
The Spiritual Nature of Man 
1969 OUP 1979 RERC, Oxford. 
p. 6, quoting from Emile Durkheim 
The Elementary Forms of Religious 
Life
1915.
209 Hardy Alister 
The Divine Flame 
Collins 1966 RERU, Oxford 1978 p. 80 
and p. 26. 
210 Quoted in 
The Spiritual Nature of Man, A Study of Contemporary 
Religious Experience 
by Alister Hardy (1979) Oxford University Press.
211 Available from Ken Evans Prints, Eggmoor Lane Cottage, Chardstock, 
Devon, EX13 7BP. www.kenevansprints.co.uk
212 Nancy Garton 
George Müller and his Orphans
(1987) Churchman 
Publishing, Sussex. p. 23.
213 RERC Archive account No. 002163.
214 Website consulted February 2008.
215 Hardy, Alister
 The Spiritual Nature of Man, A Study of Contemporary 
Religious Experience
(1979) OUP, reprinted RERC 1997. p.140.
216 Alister Hardy, 
The Spiritual Nature of Man 
(1979) RERC, Oxford. p. 18.
 
217
 
Maxwell, Meg and Tschudin, Verena (eds) 
Seeing the Invisible, Modern 
Religious and Other Transcendent Experiences
(1990) RERC, Lampeter.
218 David Hay 
Religious Experience Today (1990) 
Mowbray, London.
 
pp. 79
,
82 and 83.
219
 
2
nd
Series Occasional Paper 27 
Religious Experience in London
by Olga 
Pupynin and Simon Brodbeck (2001) RERC, Lampeter.
220 Yao, Xinzhong and Badham, Paul 
Religious Experience in Contemporary 
China
(2007) University of Wales Press, Cardiff. pp. 200–201.
221 Rupert Sheldrake 
The Sense of Being Stared At and Other Aspects of the 
Extended Mind
(2003) Hutchinson, UK. pp. 4, 5.
222 Friedrich Schleiermacher 
(Über die Religion. Reden an die Gebildeten unter 
ihren Verächtern) On Religion. Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
(1996) 
translated by Richard Crouter, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
223 Freidrich Schleiermacher 
The Christian Faith
(1928, 1960) T&T Clark, 
Edinburgh. p. 12.
224 Friedrich Schleiermacher 
On Religion. Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
(1996). p. 99.
225 Rudolf Otto 
The Idea of the Holy
(1923) (1958) OUP. p. 8.
226 Rudolf Otto, 
Mysticism East and West. A Comparative Analysis of the 
Nature of Mysticism
(New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932).
227 Ibid. 
Introduction.
p. xvi.
228 James, william 
The Varieties of Religious Experience, A Study in Human 
Nature
(2002) Special Centenary Edition, Routledge, London, NY and 
Canada. p.294.
229 Ibid. p. 295.
230 Evelyn Underhill: 
Mysticism 
(London: Bracken Books, 1995).

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231 Ibid. p.101.
232 Martin Buber 
I and Thou
translated by Ronald Gregor Smith Second 
Edition (1958) T&T Clark, Edinburgh. p. 34.
233 Ibid. p. 79.
234 Aldous Huxley 
The Perennial Philosophy
(1985, reprinted 1989) Triad 
Grafton, London. p. 9.
235 Quoted from Paul Edwards 
Immortality
by Paul Badham in 
Religious 
and Near-Death Experiences in Relation to Belief in a Future Life
(1997) 
Occasional Paper No. 13 RERC, Oxford. p. 13.
236 Richard Swinburne 
The Existence of God
(2004) Oxford University Press. 
p. 322.
237 Caroline Franks Davis, 
The Evidential Force of Religious Experience 
(1989) Oxford, Clarendon Press p. 177.
238 Ibid. p. 191.
239 Quoted from 
Summa Theologica II/II
, Q.1, art 2 in John Hick 
An Interpre-
tation
of Religion
(1989) MacMillan, London.
240 John Hick 
An Interpretation of Religion
(1989)Macmillan Press, London. 
p. 169.
241 Keith Ward 
Is There a Common Core of Religious Experience?
(2005) 2
nd
Series Occasional Paper No. 44 RERC, Lampeter. p. 13.
242 Daniel Dennett 
Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
(2006) Allen Lane, London. p. 9.

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