Jessica Corneille is a research psychologist who has recently published the peer-reviewed paper: Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings: Phenomenology, Altered States, Individual Differences, and Well-Being. The main take-aways for Jonas were: 1. In the field of psychology spontaneous spiritual awakenings (SSA's) are still often either pathologized or not taken seriously enough as profound experiences that can have very beneficial effects in the lives of people. 2. Although their might exist a huge variety of SSA’s, it seems like there’s a common substrate to them. 3. SSA’s that are not drug induced seem to have even stronger impacts than ASC’s brought about by psychedelics. In their conversation they unpacked each of these findings and their implications.
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Jessica's article, which was co-authored with David Luke, can be found on the website of the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
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