Martin Luther King Jr.: A Religious Experience

A religious experience is an experience in which an individual reports contact with a religious figure. Such an experience often involves arriving at some knowledge or insight previously unavailable to the subject yet unaccountable or unforeseeable according to the usual conceptual or psychological framework within which the subject has been used to operating Religious experience generally brings understanding partial or complete of issues of a fundamental character that may have been a cause of anguish or alienation to the subject for an extended period of time This may be experienced as a form of healing enlightenment or conversion Many religious and mystical traditions see religious experiences as revelations caused by divine agency rather than ordinary natural processes They are considered real encounters with God or gods or real contact with higher-order realities of which humans are not ordinarily aware.