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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Barriers to transcendent experience

Barriers to transcendent experience

  • Barriers to spiritual experience
  • Barriers to religious experience

Narrower

Spiritual and emotional hindrance
Excellent
Dehumanization of death
Excellent
Exclusive emphasis on observables
Unpresentable
Spiritual impurity
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Denial of right to pursue spiritual well-being because of discrimination
Excellent
Inhibition of individual psychological development through life phases
Presentable
Spiritual suffering
Yet to rate
Denial of transcendent truth
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Spiritual disobedience
Excellent
Sin
Excellent
Loss of spiritual guidance
Yet to rate
Lack of religious discipline
Yet to rate
Lack of individual development
Yet to rate
Desacralization of life
Yet to rate

Related

Unrelatedness
Unpresentable
Separation
Yet to rate

Strategy

Developing higher states of consciousness
Yet to rate

Value

Facility-Difficulty
Presentable
Freedom-Restraint
Presentable
Opening-Closure
Unpresentable
Unspiritual
Yet to rate
Nonreligious
Yet to rate
Inexperience
Yet to rate
Experience
Yet to rate
Barrier
Yet to rate

Reference

Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion: Validity and Value of Religious Experience: seminar proceedings

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
F4371
DOCID
11643710
D7NID
148265
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/barriers-transcendent-experience
Last update
Dec 3, 2024