Supernatural Theology 19: What Are Hallucinations?

To each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given. –1 Corinthians 12:7

Satanafflicted Job with painful sores…to the crown of his head.   –Job 2:7


Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. –Colossians 2:8 (KJV)



William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, ch. 3.

Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle, ch. 4.

James Goll and Julia Loren, Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Experiences, ch. 2.

Albert Farges, Mystical Phenomena Compared with Their Human and Diabolical Counterfeits, p. 350ff.

Felicitas Goodman, “Glossolalia and Hallucination in Pentecostal Congregations.”

Yoda instructs Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Force in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). One of which is getting in touch with what William James would probably call a “tactile hallucination”: feeling for the presence of the Force surrounding his spaceship; and then grabbing it telepathically.
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