Are spiritual experiences becoming more common?
What are spiritual experiences? I don’t think of them in religious terms. I see them as moments in which our awareness becomes more intense and more expansive than normal, so that the world around us becomes more real and alive, and we feel a strong sense of connection to nature and other human beings. We might feel a sense of joy or inner stillness, and feel that somehow the world around us is “in harmony” or has a meaning that we find difficult to express.
If a person from a religious background has such an experience, they may well interpret it in religious terms. They might see it as a gift from God, and believe that the aliveness and harmony they perceive is a glimpse of the divine, or of heaven. But if you’re not religious, there’s no reason to think in these terms…
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Mystical Experiences of Reality 
Very well summarized.
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Agreed. If this is typical of what we can now expect from academia and science we’re getting into interesting times indeed …
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The only disappointment in this post is that it doesn’t include
a study of spontaneous mystical experiences of Reality. The categories of reasons Dr.Taylor says induce MER make me suspect whether the experiences he has examined are more human than real MER.
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