Visions and Migraines
If I may be permitted one more brief remark on the subject:
An interesting study of visionary experience appeared just lat
year, Phillip H. Weib, Visions of Jesus: Direct Encounters from
the New Testament to Today (Oxford U.P., 1997). The author
studies accounts of thirty contemporary North American men and women
who claim to have had visions of Jesus. His point is to suggest
- only very tentatively, though his appointment at the
evangelical Trinity Western University suggests, perhaps, a deeper
agenda - that transcendent explanations of these phenomena ought to
be explored. But he has two pretty good chapters on the
physchology and physiology of visionary experience, though he
suggests that these are not sufficient explanations. In any
case, if the subject of visionary experience is of interest, these
two chapters provide a helpful introduction, though neither ergotism
nor scintillating scotomas appear in his study.
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Patrick J. Nugent
Department of Religion
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
(765) 983-1413
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