Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings: Phenomenology, Altered States, Individual Differences, and Well-Being.

ABSTRACT: Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings (SSAs) are subjective experiences characterised by a sudden sense of direct contact, union, or complete nondual merging (experience of oneness) with a perceived ultimate reality, the universe, "God," or the divine. These profound transformative experiences have scarcely been researched, despite extensive anecdotal evidence suggesting their potential to catalyse drastic, long-term, and often positive shifts in perception, world-view, and well-being. The aims of this study were to investigate the phenomenological variances of these experiences, including the potential differences between SSAs and Spontaneous Kundalini Awakenings (SKAs), a subset of awakening experiences that the authors postulate may produce a higher likelihood of both physical and negative e

SUBMITTER: Corneille JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8417526 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature