Religious Experiences Quotes

“We don’t yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There’s a part of the human brain, the temporal lobe, that is associated with religious experiences as well as with epilepsy.”
― Ken MacLeod, Descent

“Oh you tender ones, there are times when you should
Enter into that breath which was not intended for you,
Let Him part Himself on your cheeks, -
How he trembles behind you, comes together again.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus