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    Mystical encounters with the supernatural are results of ... — Carmelics
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    Mystical encounters with the supernatural are results of religion in Africa, not sources of it.

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    • 1.In the traditional African setting, spirituality is a heightened form of religiosity reached by certain individuals who have mystical contacts with the supernatural.
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    • 2.The encounters follow from the religious framework rather than giving rise to it.
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    • 1.William James's 'Varieties of Religious Experience' demonstrates that mystical states exhibit noetic authority that precedes and generates doctrinal frameworks, not the reverse.
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    • 2.Across documented African traditions, founding figures like Ngunza in Kongo religion received visionary encounters that constituted new religious movements, making experience causally prior to structure.
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    • 1.Anthropologist Victor Turner's fieldwork among the Ndembu shows that liminal ritual experiences generate symbolic systems rather than merely expressing pre-existing ones.
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    • 2.If mystical encounters are fully determined by prior religious frameworks, the historical emergence of new African religious syntheses through prophetic experience becomes inexplicable.
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    I define spirituality as a heightened form of religiosity reached by certain individuals in the community who have, or claim to have, mystical contacts with the supernatural, the divine. It would be correct to assert, however, that the encounters are the results, rather than the sources, of religion in Africa in the traditional setting. And, even though ‘spiritual messages’ may be received by the practitioners of traditional African religion through those mystical encounters part of which (‘mess
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