Degrees of Hallucinatoriness and Christic Visions

Author: Wiebe, Phillip H.

Source: Archive for the Psychology of Religion / Archiv für Religionspychologie, Volume 26, Number 1, 2004 , pp. 201-225(25)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

This paper examines the feasibility of the claim that perceptual experience might lie on a continuum, so that lifelikeness, and correlatively, that hallucinatoriness might occur in degrees. The first-hand accounts of twenty-eight people reporting a vision of Christ provide the basis for identifying the categories by which experiences are compared. Three specific vision accounts are used to show the plausibility of claiming that hallucinatoriess might vary in degree. Some comments on the psychological aspects of these visionary experiences upon the lives of those who experience them are also made.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/0084672053598058

Publication date: 2004-01-01