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Religious delusion. An AI generated image depicting light being interpreted as a sign from God. A religious delusion is defined as a delusion, or fixed belief not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence, involving religious themes or subject matter. [1] [2] Religious faith, meanwhile, is defined as a belief in a religious doctrine ...
A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. [1] The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they were unquestionably correct. [2] Someone with a god complex may exhibit no regard for ...
Neuroscience of religion. The neuroscience of religion, also known as neurotheology and as spiritual neuroscience, [1] attempts to explain religious experience and behaviour in neuroscientific terms. [2] It is the study of correlations of neural phenomena with subjective experiences of spirituality and hypotheses to explain these phenomena.
777 is an odd, composite, palindromic [1] repdigit. [2] It is also a sphenic number, [3] with 3, 7, and 37 as its prime factors. In decimal representation, its largest prime factor is a concatenation of its smaller two; the only other number below 1000 with this property is 138 . 777 is also:
The relationship between religion and schizophrenia is of particular interest to psychiatrists because of the similarities between religious experiences and psychotic episodes. Religious experiences often involve reports of auditory and/or visual phenomena, which sounds seemingly similar to those with schizophrenia who also commonly report ...
Messiah complex. Byzantine mosaic image of Jesus of Nazareth, a widely recognizable messiah figure. The messiah complex is a mental state in which a person believes they are a messiah or prophet and will save or redeem people in a religious endeavour. [1] [2] The term can also refer to a state of mind in which an individual believes that they ...
Delphic maxims. The Delphic maxims are a set of moral precepts that were inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The three best known maxims – "Know thyself", "Nothing in excess", and "Give a pledge and trouble is at hand" – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally ...
Heathenry (new religious movement) A modern replica of a Viking Age pendant representing Mjölnir, the hammer of the god Thor; such pendants are often worn by Heathens. Heathenry, also termed Heathenism, contemporary Germanic Paganism, or Germanic Neopaganism, is a modern Pagan religion. Scholars of religious studies classify it as a new ...