January 1, 2014Open Access

Differentiating spiritual and psychotic experiences: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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Abstract

This article discusses spiritually transformative experiences and how they differ from psychotic experiences, including the context, content, how the experience is remembered, and effect on the individual.

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Bruce Greyson (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a104e532badbc352affc0f5 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.17514/jnds-2014-32-3-p123-136.

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