The Relationship Between Spiritual Experiences and Belief in a Deity

forest: I think when people say supernatural in relative to these experiences if you actually look into let's say john topkins research on mystical experience they have a six criteria that they go by to define the experience. If you've got some connection between these spiritual experiences and your belief in a deity or an afterlife or supernatural whatever that is what we would like to get to so we don't need to go through the criteria again for what John Hopkins says is a spiritual experience, he said. "Let's get to the actual meat here and tell us why there is anything interesting at all about spiritual experiences"