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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and David Yaden (Johns Hopkins University, The Varieties of Spiritual Experience)
- David’s brand new book, The Varieties of Spiritual Experience . 0:00
- The personal spiritual experience that sparked David’s research . 4:57
- This book’s relationship to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience . 9:17
- How common are dramatic spiritual experiences? . 13:24
- How different are different types of spiritual experience, really? . 22:19
- Type 1 in the book’s taxonomy of spiritual experiences: The Numinous . 34:45
- Type 2: The Revelatory . 42:50
- Type 3: Synchronicity . 51:19
- Type 4: The Mystical . 56:32
- Type 5: The Aesthetic . 59:11
- Type 6: The Paranormal . 1:02:43
- Varieties of psychedelic experience . 1:06:15
- SPOILERS: James’s surprising conclusions about religious experience . 1:22:02
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Recorded:Sep 1
Posted:Sep 6, 2022
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