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A Nonbeliever Tries to Make Sense of the Visions She Had as a Teen

By Fresh Air — 2014

“People have these unaccountable mystic experiences,” Ehrenreich tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “Generally they say nothing or they label it as ‘God’ and get on with their lives. I’m saying, ‘Hey, no, let’s figure out what’s going on here.’ ”

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In a survey of thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with God, researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.

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Mystical Experiences Open a ‘Door of Perception’ in the Brain

It turns out, mystical experiences may stem from the brain letting go of inhibitions, opening a “door of perception,” the researchers found.

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Charles Q. Choi
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Ancient and Modern Mysticism and Mystics.

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Lisa Jo Rudy
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Mysticism

Mystical and religious experiences can be classified in various ways, in addition to the built-in difference between mystical super sense-perceptual and sub sense-perceptual experiences.

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Jerome Gellman
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Hallucinatory Experience & Religion Formation

Shawn Harte considers how hallucination might be mistaken for the supernatural.

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Contemplative Community

Contemplative community is solitude-community which provides leisure to celebrate life.

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David Stendl-Rast
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Youthful Peak Experiences in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Implications for Educators and Counselors

Since Abraham Maslow’s death in 1970, his concept of peak experience has enlarged our understanding of human spirituality.

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Edward Hoffman and Fernando A. Ortiz
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