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MYSTICAL SCALE!! http://www.nvcc.edu/home/lshulman/MScale.html !!!!!!!!!!!!!

ex: "mystical experience" Ineffability -William James -varieties

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_2_61/ai_63912433/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1  !!!!!!!!

religious views : http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/mysticism/mystical_experiences.html !!!

commom features of religious experence

 * Ineffability :
 * http://www.doxa.ws/experience/Mystical4.html
 * http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/m/mystical_experiences.html
 * http://www.deikman.com/deautomat.html
 * http://www.srds.co.uk/begin/mystical.htm
 * http://examinedlifejournal.com/archives/vol2ed8/ineffability2.shtml

http://www.doxa.ws/experience/Mystical4.htm
 * Noetic quality
 * http://www.srds.co.uk/begin/mystical.htm


 * Transiency
 * http://www.srds.co.uk/begin/mystical.htm


 * Passivity
 * http://www.srds.co.uk/begin/mystical.htm

http://www.doxa.ws/experience/Mystical4.html
 * Enjoyable and positive affect.

http://www.spiritualcompetency.com/dsm4/lesson3_3.asp
 * Unity

Neurology of Religious Experience - Select Bibliography
Andersen, Jensine and Robert K. C. Forman. Cognitive models and spiritual maps: interdisciplinary explorations of religious experience. New York: Imprint Academic, 2000.

d’Aquili, Eugene and Andrew B. Newberg. The mystical mind : probing the biology of religious experience. Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 1999.

Austin, James H. Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

Clottes, Jean and David Lewis-Williams. The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Lewis-Williams, David. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Newberg, A., Alavi, A., Baime, M., Pourdehnad, M., Santanna, J., & d'Aquili, E.). “The measurement of regional cerebral blood flow during the complex cognitive task of meditation: a preliminary SPECT study.” Psychiatry Research, 106(2), 2001:113-122.

Newberg, Andrew and Eugene d'Aquili. “The Neuropsychology of Religious and Spiritual Experience.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 7.11-12 (2000): 251-66.

Newberg, Andrew and Eugene d’Aquili. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

Pearson, James L. Shamanism and the ancient mind : a cognitive approach to archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002.

Persinger, Michael. “Out-of-Body-Like experiences are More Probable in People With Elevated Complex Partial Epileptic-Like Signs During Periods of Enhanced Geomagnetic Activity: A Nonlinear Effect.” Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1995, Aug; 80, 563-569

Persinger, Michael. “‘I would kill in God's name:’ role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability.” Perceptual Motor Skills. 1997, Aug; 85(1):128-30.

Persinger, Michael and S. Koren. “Experiences of spiritual visitation and impregnation: potential induction by frequency-modulated transients from an adjacent clock.” Perceptual Motor Skills. 2001, Feb; 92(1):35-6.

Ramachandran, V. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: Quill, 1999.

Wallis, Robert. Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans. New York: Routledge, 2003.