By Hadley Meares — 2016
Hildegard of Bingen fought the patriarchy from her cloister.
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The term “religious experience,” or sometimes “mystical experience,” is used to describe a transcendent event that transforms the person who has the experience, often in a way that leads to a strong sense of connection and/or oneness with the universe and/or God.