"A few years ago, I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I'd been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception. Everything around me became intensely real. The fields and the bushes and trees and the clouds seemed more vivid, more intricate and beautiful."
"Awakening experiences are a temporary expansion and intensification of awareness that transforms our perception of the world. As a psychologist, I have been studying such experiences for nearly 20 years. (My book The Leap: The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening summarises my research.) Awakening experiences are sometimes viewed as mysterious and random, but I have found that, to a large degree, they can be explained."
Awakening experiences are temporary expansions and intensifications of awareness that transform perception of the world. Such experiences produce heightened vividness, intricacy, and beauty in sensory perception, a strong sense of connectedness with surroundings, and intense well‑being. Common triggers include psychological distress (such as stress, depression, and loss), contact with nature, and spiritual practice. About one third of awakening experiences are linked to psychological turmoil. These episodes often involve a loss of ordinary self‑boundaries and sense of time and function as an undoing of psychological processes that normally restrict awareness. Neurological explanations remain unsatisfactory.
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