Spiritual experience with Jessica Corneille

Welcome to another episode of “Imagine an apple”!

In this episode, we tackle the issue of spiritual experience.

How do these vary between individuals, and how do they vary between human cultures?

Twitter: @imagine_apple @SurenVynn @frabcus

Timestamps:

01:40 What are spiritual experiences?
03:30 Oneness with the Universe
05:30 Nondual experience with Vynn
08:20 Rejection from life goals triggering nondual experience
09:30 Jessica’s move to Madrid and starting new job
10:49 Lucid dreaming
14:01 Hearing voices
19:20 Changing perceptions of reality
20:15 Scales of enlightenment experience
21:00 What were you reading?
22:02 Alan Watts and Buddhist Koans
23:30 Effing the ineffable
25:28 “I am God!”
27:27 The experience of love
30:15 How do you live day to day?
34:26 Psychedelics
35:35 Sense of self
38:15 Research on spiritual experience
41:15 Neurophenomenology
43:00 Mental health disorders associated with spiritual experiences
44:05 Vocabulary around mental experience
45:00 EPRC Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium
45:50 Kundalini Awakenings
48:40 Wrapping up
49:00 Can you recognize another?

Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello