How to explain these phenomena is a

How to explain these phenomena is a question to be answered on several levels—social, cultural, psychological, and physiological.Ronald Knox made the significant observation that they are all part of “a definite type of spirituality, one which cannot be happy unless it is seeing results. Heart-work, Wesley called it; the emotions must be stirred to their depths, at frequent intervals, by unaccountable feelings of compunction, joy, peace, and so on, or how could you be certain that the Divine touch was working on your soul?...grace must be something felt, or how could you be sure that it had any existence at all?”” Thus, Wesley's energumens writhing on the floor and crying for mercy, the Indian Shakers of Puget Sound, the ecstatic Hasidim, the Voodoo votaries who are mounted by divine horsemen, or the Guarani Indians of Brazil seeking to save the world,are in Knox's sense kinsmen.