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| qvrj7_v1 | Who Are We, And What Is the Nature of Reality? Scientists’ Spiritually Transformative Experiences | Objective: To analyze the first-person phenomenological Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) of a sample of scientists and academics. Methods: The first-person phenomenological accounts of 40 scientists’ and/or academics’ Spiritual Transformative Experiences, were analyzed with respect to their perceived changes in the nature of the personal self and the nature of reality. Results: Eighty-five percent of experiencers described a dissolution of the boundaries of their personal self; this was experienced by 62.5% as a sense of boundless oneness, with the characteristics of pure unconditional love (45%). As to the nature of reality, 60% also experienced reality as unitive, and 47.5% of the experiencers described its essence as unconditional love, bliss, and luminosity (27.5%), with some describing it as filled with energy, intelligence and beyond time. Discussion: For all individuals, the experiences were considered truly real. For those who have not had similar experiences, their ontological status remains an empirical question. | 2022-12-11T10:33:51.426159 | 2023-03-03T15:01:16.889774 | 2022-12-11T23:10:02.350698 | mindrxiv | 1 | accepted | 1 | 1 | https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/qvrj7 | CC-By Attribution 4.0 International | Spirituality; consciousness; reality; self; transormative experiences | ["Spirituality", "consciousness", "reality", "self", "transormative experiences"] | Patrizio Tressoldi; Marjorie Woollacott | [{"id": "q3mym", "name": "Patrizio Tressoldi", "index": 0, "orcid": "0000-0002-6404-0058", "bibliographic": true}, {"id": "5yvwj", "name": "Marjorie Woollacott", "index": 1, "orcid": null, "bibliographic": true}] | Patrizio Tressoldi | Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychology; Transpersonal Psychology | [{"id": "59bacc2a54be8103332cb78f", "text": "Social and Behavioral Sciences"}, {"id": "59bacc2b54be8103332cb7d5", "text": "Psychology"}, {"id": "59baec7454be810242f55311", "text": "Transpersonal Psychology"}] | https://osf.io/download/6395b2144cc86c0402115027 | 0 | available | no | [] | 2025-04-09T20:50:06.778220 |