On The Religious Experience From Different Dimensions Of Emotion

Religious experience is a process, and it means psychology, realization and the incidental emotion experience of human in the religion activities. And this is a special experience which has strong emotional characteristics, and is different from the human usual emotional experience. To explore the characters of the emotional changes of religious experience and the relationship between religious experience and physiological indicators, we used self note with different pictures to induce emotion, and used the emendatory Plutchik cinque mood scales assess the subjective experiences, and used the polygraph record the physiologic measures and EEG data while the subjects were watching the pictures, and took our experiment on 18 Christians and non Christians, in which there are 9 Christians usually experience the religious experience and 9 have no faith, and all of them are college students. Examination of the subjective experience, physiological indicators, as well as indicators of EEG analysis, the main results and conclusions are: (1) There is significant difference between Christians and non Christians' subjective emotional experience. (2) EEG is mainly affected by the type of faith; In the EEG phase synchronization, synchronization ofβwaves appears at the same time in the parietal, temporal and occipital area, andβandγwaves have a similar integrated role. (3) There are some relations between the activation of the brain and the duration of the stimulus. Based on these results, Christian religious experience is different from ordinary emotional experience, and Christians is more positive emotional experience, rather than non Christians more negative, there are some differences in the brain wave, too.