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classification by Augustine
- In Christianity: Western Catholic Christianity
  …introduced a triple classification of visions—corporeal, spiritual (i.e., imaginative), and intellectual—that influenced later mystics for centuries. Although he was influenced by Neoplatonist philosophers such as Plotinus, Augustine did not speak of personal union with God in this life. His teaching, like that of the Eastern Fathers, emphasized the ecclesial context…
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role in Muhammad’s call as prophet
- In prophecy: The centrality of prophecy in Islam
  …the divine call in a vision. His ecstatic revelations were in the form of auditions, usually involving the archangel Gabriel reading the divine message from a book. The illiterate Muhammad had his wife Khadījah, who was 15 years his senior, record them, and they are preserved in the Qurʾān. Because…
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Plains culture
- In Plains Indian: Belief systems
  They attached much importance to visions, and their cultures generally included aspects of animism, a belief system in which natural phenomena such as animals, plants, the sun, moon, stars, thunder, and lighting are physical manifestations of spirit-beings.
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Asian cultures
- In shamanism: Selection
  …to faint repeatedly, to have visions, or to have similar symptoms, with these events sometimes persisting for weeks.
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