英文摘要 |
This article examines 27 cases, those related to incidents of spiritual connections with nature, selected from 143 experiential reports published in Seeing the Invisible, a collection published by the Religious Experience Research Center (RERC), located at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. In the article, I refer to these cases as“spiritual experiences with nature” and classify, analyze, and discuss their background and content, as well as the subsequent impact they brought about. I consider three characteristics of “spiritual experiences with nature” that emerge in these real cases–nature, spirituality, and the relationship of these two aspects to 通靈–and draw analogies to nature religion, nature mysticism, spirituality, and nature experiences. By drawing the core components of these four issues into the dialogue, I attempt to clarify their respective essential qualities and the differences between them, while also demonstrating that the phenomenon of “spiritual experiences with nature” are a type of religious/spiritual experience that possess the transcendent and mysterious aspects of 通靈. |