Key words

• Mystical experience

  experiences of God or of the supernatural which go beyond everyday sense experience
• Conversion experience

  an experience which produces a radical change in someones belief system
• Corporate religious experience

  religious experiences which happen to a group of people "as a body"
• Numinous experience

  an indescribable experience which invokes feelings of awe, worship and fascination
• Principle of credulity

  Swinburne's principle that we should usually believe what our senses tell us we are perceiving
• Principle of testimony

  Swinburne's principle that we should usually trust that other people are telling the truth
• Naturalistic explanation

  an explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes
• Neurophysiology

  an area of science which studies the brain and the nervous system