Borges, Paulo2008-10-012011-10-062008-10-012011-10-062004Cons-Ciências. Porto: Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa. CTEC. ISSN 1645-6564. 2 (2005) 381-389.1645-6564http://hdl.handle.net/10284/786The present lecture aims to rethink on the religious phenomena, in wich the differences between spiritual experience, religious experience, religiousness and religion are presented. The individual and collective experiences of living are conceptualized in three stages which are coexisting and interacting with each one. We try to look further and to catch the best of a future religion consistent with the human consciousness, as a mediator between the religiousness and the religious or spiritual experience. Finally, the ultimate ideal of religion, considering a non-gnostic and an a-theistic dimension of the deepest spiritual or religious experience is presented.porjournal article