Spiritual experiences can include being connected to a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self ; joining with other individuals or the human community ; with nature or the cosmos ; or with the divine realm.

Simon is most commonly interpreted as a Christ figure because of his ability to see through misconception, unlike the rest of the boys, and the events he experiences in the book that parallel those of Jesus ' life.

Therefore, as people suffer as Christ did, they will become closer to Him by their experiences.

Pre-school experiences are also offered at Rainbow Corners day school, at the Methodist Church, Building Blocks Child Center at the Christ Community Church ( across from the high school ) Building Blocks and at Saddle Acres School.

In Schlink's book Ökumenische Dogmatik ( 1983 ), he says Christians who see the risen Christ at work in the lives of various Christians or in diverse churches, realize that the unity of Christ's church has never been lost, but has instead been distorted and obscured by different historical experiences and by spiritual myopia.

According to Nestorius, all the human experiences and attributes of Christ are to be assigned to ' the man ', as a distinct personal subject from God the Word, though united to God the Word from the moment of his conception.

Evil's chair on the moon experiences a malfunction giving it an apparent mind of its own, he quotes from the 1973 film The Exorcist, with " I need an old Priest and a young Priest " followed by " The power of Christ compels you!

The core of her teachings is founded on the principle that the Old Testament Tabernacle was laid out in the form of a cross and serves as a picture or metaphor of Christian believers ' spiritual experiences as they grow to maturity in Christ Jesus, as taught in the New Testament ( Hebrews 9: 8-11 ; Ephesians 2: 19-22 ).

Some of the common features included Cennick's innovation of hymns sung as a dialogue, as well as Newton, a former slave trader who converted after reading On the Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, who wrote more than two hundred hymns that drew on his own experiences wrestling with sin, and proved extremely popular.

Crosby's hymns were popular because they placed " a heightened emphasis on religious experiences, emotions, and testimonies " and reflected " a sentimental, romanticized relationship between the believer and Christ ", rather than using the negative descriptions of earlier hymns that emphasised the sinfulness of people.

At ages 12 and 24, Mani had visionary experiences of a heavenly twin of his, calling him to leave his father's sect and teach the true message of Christ.

He imbued his image of Christ with dramatic experiences in a deeply psychological and vital interpretation, evoking the idea of his heroic self-sacrifice.

O ' Connor's hero, Hazel Motes, sneers at communal and social experiences of Christianity, sees the followers of itinerant, Protestant preachers as fools, and sets out to deny Christ as violently as he can.

Armstrong has written extensively and humorously of her struggle with depression, entering a mental health hospital, as well as her pregnancies, parenthood, and her experiences with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He then experiences the blissful dominion of our Lord Jesus Christ in his heart.

Since human experience is a key to understanding Kierkegaard, the actual relationships and experiences of disciples and of Christ are characterized here as tangible models for behavior.

MCC strives for peace, justice and dignity of all people by sharing our experiences, resources and faith in Jesus Christ.

" The church of Jesus Christ in this age experiences a profound need to enter into contact and dialogue with all these religions ," said the Pope, and that Christians must commit to discussions " so that mutual understanding and collaboration may grow, so that moral values may be strengthened, so that God may be praised in all creation ".

Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being.

Emotional maturity is the result of many factors, the principal ones being the experiences of the first few years of the child's life.

Amputations are traumatic experiences that reduce the quality of life for patients in addition to being expensive.

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

After several rounds of debate between Job and his friends, in a divine voice, described as coming from a " cloud " or " whirlwind ", God describes, in evocative and lyrical language, what the experience of being the creator of the world is like, and rhetorically asks if Job has ever had the experiences or the authority that God has had.

In a recent article about the debate in the San Francisco Chronicle, Robbins notes that under the new guidelines, certain responses to grief could be labeled as pathological disorders, instead of being recognized as being normal human experiences.

In the TV Series Teen Wolf, the character Lydia, experiences a fugue state in season 2 following being bitten by a werewolf.

While the substance of many of Orwell's novels, particularly Burmese Days, is drawn from his personal experiences, the following are works presented as narrative documentaries, rather than being fictionalised.

Modern writers have pointed to this as a reason for Brahms's later inability to have a successful relationship for marriage, etc., his view of women being warped by his experiences.

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

With their ideas rooted in Marxism and the 20th century European artistic avant-gardes, they advocated experiences of life being alternative to those admitted by the capitalist order, for the fulfillment of human primitive desires and the pursuing of a superior passional quality.

In philosophy, a subject is a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness or a relationship with another entity ( or " object ").

But it seems at least obvious that a divine infinite being conceived of as necessary infinitely knowledgeable would also know how, for example, a finite person dying feels like as He would have access to all knowledge including the obvious experiences of the dying human.

NDEs include one or more of the following experiences: a sense of being dead ; an out-of-body experience ; a sensation of floating above one's body and seeing the surrounding area ; a sense of overwhelming love and peace ; a sensation of moving upwards through a tunnel or narrow passageway ; meeting deceased relatives or spiritual figures ; encountering a being of light, or a light ; experiencing a life review ; reaching a border or boundary ; and a feeling of being returned to the body, often accompanied by reluctance.

Bearden had struggled with two artistic sides of himself: his background as “ a student of literature and of artistic traditions, and being a black human being involves very real experiences, figurative and concrete ”, which was at combat with the mid-twentieth century “ exploration of abstraction ”.

The Company's monopoly, censorship and failure to protect authors made the system highly unpopular ; John Milton wrote Areopagitica as a result of his experiences with the Company, accusing Parliament of being deceived by " the fraud of some old patentees and monopolisers in the trade of bookselling ".

When he only sees lights and shapes, he puts this down to being a bad visualiser, however, he experiences a great change in his perception of the external world.

Death, in turn, yearns to relish what being human is truly like and travels to Ankh-Morpork to indulge in new experiences and attempt to feel real human emotion.

Some museum experiences have very few or no artifacts and do not necessarily call themselves museums ; the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, being notable examples where there are few artifacts, but strong, memorable stories are told or information is interpreted.

Both Jean Mouton and Loyset Compère were buried there, and it is certainly possible that Josquin acquired his later connections with the French royal chapel through early experiences at Saint-Quentin.

He was so shocked by what he saw that he immediately buried the canisters of poison gas, and confessed his experiences to the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter in a train from Warsaw to Berlin, where they met on August 20.

Following these bad experiences the band buried the Ouija board.

The film is very loosely based on the non-fiction book of the same name by ethnobotanist Wade Davis, wherein Davis recounted his experiences in Haiti investigating the story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was allegedly poisoned and buried alive ; and who, when released from the grave, purportedly received an herbal brew whose effects produced what was called a zombie.