Vision (religion)

In religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being, and are believed (by followers of the religion) to come from a deity, directly or indirectly via prophets, and serve to inspire or prod believers as part of a revelation or an epiphany. Many mystics take the word vision to be synonymous with apparition.

Related Topics:
Religion - Future - Mythical - Prophet - Revelation - Epiphany - Apparition

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For religious visions as a literary form, see apocalyptic literature.

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Artistic inspiration may provide a special category of the ecstatic vision: traditionally in such cases the semi-divine Muses may transmit the visioning to their loyal followers.

Related Topics:
Inspiration - Muse

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Visions generally have more clarity than dreams, but traditionally fewer psychological connotations.

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Certain hallucinogenic techniques can traditionally assist in the divine-to-human communication of visions, and may also allegedly generate visions.

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Some could consider visions to be a manifestation of the 'aha' (lightbulb going off) type of learning associated with Picture thinking or Visual Spatial thinking.

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