Theoretical study that is the first part of a more encompassing research aiming to describe phenomenologicaly the religious experience basing on personal reports. Religious expe- rience, in the real sense of the word, is something not lived as a delusive defense for the characteristic fragmentation of the experience in the post-modern era, but presents itself as a immediate awareness of a relationship with something thatis conceived as absolutely transcendent that, however, is not directly perceived in itself. This transcendency is the hidden side of a relationship that, however, is experienced as a relationship in the everyday life. The extreme nature of this experience makes possible changes in the person world meanings. It must also to be understood as a process in which its own comprehension becomes more and more appropriate to the person who experiences it.
religious experience; religion; magic; faith