Types of spiritual experience
Types of spiritual experience
- Synaesthesia – one type of sensory input is converted to another type.
- Pure or enhanced perception – the physical world is seen but in an enhanced way.
- Hallucination – an image or sound or similar sensory impression which is superimposed on the input from the sensory apparatus.
- Inter composer communication – the composer communication between two or more ‘things’ [people, animals etc] to share information.
- Vision – an image or scene, occasionally with other sensory input which completely overrides that from our 5 senses.
- Dream – an ordinary or a lucid dream.
- Near death – an experience that occurs as the person is dying but from which the person recovers to tell the tale.
- Dying – an experience that occurs just before the person dies.
- Environmental influence – the person gains the ability to influence the functions of the universe, for example, levitate, change the weather, walk on water.
- Invisible input – input you cannot see but sense inwardly. The subcategories here are
- Out of time – an understanding of ‘no time’
- Out of body – your conscious self leaves your bodily self and is able to explore the spirit world.
- Rebirth – a terrifying experience in which we are ‘rewritten’ in software terms – we ‘die’ figuratively speaking and are born again as a new cleaned up version of the software.
- Perception recall – an experience in which you go through events of this life and possibly past lives. The perceptions are presented to you as perfect recall flashbacks.
- Exploring group perception – as above but using other people’s perceptions to get their side of the story.
- Kundalini – a precursor stage to moksha and nirvana, in which energy travels up and down the spine. It may or may not result in Ecstasy. A very early stage of enlightenment
- Ecstasy - the communication channels are opened to the Higher spirit but there is no merge. The start of the enlightenment process.
- Moksha and nirvana – You merge with your composer. This is often referred to as the ‘chemical wedding’. An advanced stage of enlightenment.
- Annihilation– the personality is annihilated and ‘you’ as a personality cease to exist. The Higher spirit then takes over, but in effect you become ‘divine’ – a sort of ‘god’ completely in touch with the spiritual world at all its levels. Full enlightenment.
- Other – Miscellaneous and unclassifiable experiences.