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Re:Parapsychology: the control group for science by kurtosis on Saturday December 05, 2009 @03:30PM (#978573)
What's a mystical experience? I find parapsych pretty interesting, but I've never heard of this, at least in the context of mainstream science.
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Re:Parapsychology: the control group for science by a-priori on Saturday December 05, 2009 @06:16PM (#978819)
Two examples I can think of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_poisoning (the "haunted houses" section)

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Re:Parapsychology: the control group for science by Alex3917 on Saturday December 05, 2009 @07:28PM (#978894)
Those aren't mystical experiences. An experience is only a mystical one if it scores above a certain threshold on the empirically derived Mysticism Scale, and ghost experiences definitely would not qualify.
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