Abstract
BEFORE sketching the distinctive features of the two major varieties of religious experience, it may be useful to introduce the discussion with an abstract analysis.2 The subject of a religious experience believes not only that (1) his perceptions are extraordinary and constitute a sharp break with the world of everyday experience, but that (2) they are far more important than ordinary perceptions and, unlike the latter, (3) their objective referents are not to be found in discrete aspects of the empirical world. The fourth criterion concerns the locus of this nonnaturalistic referent and subdivides into two categories: (4a) One who has had a mystic experience (the unio mystica) is convinced that the non-
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