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The Argument from Religious Experience

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The argument from religious experience: people across cultures report direct encounters with the divine; such widespread experience is evidence that something answers to it.

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Mystics, converts, and ordinary worshippers describe presence, unity, awe—James catalogued hundreds in Varieties of Religious Experience.