Religious Experience

A central concept across the Abrahamic religions and beyond, with personal-encounter reports throughout history. Direct evidence essentially zero; the modern guardian-angel and angel-number reading is the weakest part.

Buddhist bodhi, Hindu moksha, Christian unitive states, Sufi fana — a remarkably consistent endpoint described across traditions, with growing neuroscience confirmation. The 'what it actually is' is the open question.

Reports of self-less, choiceless awareness are remarkably consistent across traditions and now well-documented in contemplative neuroscience.

Reported across every religious tradition. A small number of well-documented unexplained cures (Lourdes Medical Bureau) survive scrutiny; the inference to 'divine action' is a separate, much larger step.

OBEs are reliably triggered by temporo-parietal junction stimulation and certain drug states; veridical perception is rare and contested. 'Astral projection' is the same phenomenon read maximally — as literal travel through an astral plane — with no independent evidence beyond the OBE itself.

Modern clinical trials confirm psychedelics reliably induce mystical experiences with measurable lasting benefits. Whether the experience is 'true' is a separate question.

Physics-adjacent worldviews — block universe, many-worlds, simulation, free will.

World religions and traditions, scored as systems.

Psychedelic, contemplative, and out-of-body experiences and what they may reveal.

Psychedelic, contemplative, out-of-body experience.

The nature of subjective experience.

Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.