For Jordan Grafman, it was just a split-second vision. "About 15 years ago, my mom died," Grafman told Live Science. "I was walking down the street to catch the bus at about 5 a.m., and I looked down ...

Ruby asks, "Does your tradition value personal mystical experiences?" My response: Judaism's primary focus on behavior. Mystical experiences that connect the individual to the Divine, and thus ...

What happens in the brain to bring about the conditions necessary for a peak or ‘mystical’ experience? According to studies, the most impactful peak experiences are characterized by a weird ...

A recent study (Bitēna & Mārtinsone, 2021) argued that mystical experience is a spiritual phenomenon associated with mental health rather than something pathological associated with mental illness ...

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the author of “Fingerprint of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality.” As mystical experiences go, Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s transcendent moment was not the kind ...

This study aimed to create and test a dream-specific version of Hood's Mysticism (M) Scale for the purpose of studying dreaming mystical experience. Factor analysis of the Spiritual Dreams Scale (SDS) ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study published by researchers from the Institute of OM Foundation in California found that Orgasmic Meditation (“OM”) can trigger a substantial mystical ...

As we approach Easter, I think the time is ripe to reclaim for our own lives the earliest articulation of an experience of the Resurrection: that which is noted by Paul. Rather than another article ...

Archbishop Georg Ganswein, retired Pope Benedict XVI's longtime personal secretary, said a story about the pope resigning after a "mystical experience" was completely invented. "It was invented from ...

WHILE I am writing this, the world seems to be collapsing into a primitive chaos of revolution and destruction. It appears to be reverting to a barbarism of hate and blind self-destructive conflict.