ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses the Broad-Swinburne defense of the argument from religious experience. He defines a religious experience as an experience which the subject takes to be an experience of God or some supernatural thing. In any case, the argument from religious experience is generally constructed as an argument for the existence of a supernatural object. It is essential to a religious experience that the subject takes the experience to be an experience of God or a supernatural being. If we think of God in terms of the classical concept developed in the religions of the West, God is a person who is, in part, omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and the creator of all things. Some philosophers have focused on the circumstances in which religious experiences occur and have sought to find in those circumstances positive reasons for thinking that the experiences are delusive.
