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There are religions that spread all over the world along with some religions that consist of a few people that follow of the word of their god. People, throughout history, have tried to grab on to other forms of religions and join them with others to try to make sense of the world around them. One aspect of almost all religions around the world, is that the people who are devoted and follow closely the words of their chosen religion, often times have world altering visions or glimpses shown to them by their so called “god”. The question is, however, if it is not merely a single god allowing people to gain further insight to who they are and for what purpose they exist, but for what reasons that this phenomena does happen. There are four basic criteria that are commonly associated with the topic of Mysticism. The first aspect of this broad range of religion based thinking is called Ineffability. This term is best defined as a feeling with no spoken meaning. A person that has felt an emotion or feeling that another person has not, can not tell that person who hasn’t experienced it for himself, what the feeling feels like. It is something that is merely held within the person who is experiencing it, but doesn’t say anythi