Talk:Mystical Experience Scale

The 22-item Mystical Experience Scale (MES) Please read each of the following statements and circle Τ for "true" or F for "false."

1. I have never had a personal experience on the basis of which I could say that there exists a God of some sort.

2. I have had the feeling that humanity was in some sense a body and that I am a purposeful cell within that body.

3. I have sometimes felt as if I was overflowing with a non-selfish love for all human beings—a love that sprang from somewhere inexhaustible within.

4. My happiness has never been so intense that I wept.

5. I have never had an experience in which I felt I received profound illumination about the purpose and meaning of my life and the universe.

6. I have never felt so loved by "God" that I found it perfectly easy to be unselfish to all those around me.

7. I believe that it is possible to experience union with something we can call "God."

8. I have never been in a state which I would describe as perfect love for my fellow human beings.

9. I have never experienced a state of transcendental ecstasy.

10. I have never experienced an altered state of consciousness in which I felt that I became cosmically enlightened.

11. I have never experienced an altered state of consciousness which I believe utterly transformed (in a positive manner) the way I looked at myself.

12. I have never felt that the boundaries between my self and the selves of others had in some real sense been obliterated.

13. I have never felt that I had received special wisdom, to be communicated to the rest of humanity.

14. I have never had a dramatic experience as a result of which my values and priorities were radically re-ordered.

15. I have never had a period of time when I felt absolutely and perfectly happy.

16. I have never had an experience for which I could find no words with which to communicate it adequately.

17. I have never had an experience in which it seemed clear that pain and suffering had their parts to play in "the school of life."

18. I have never had an experience in which space seemed to disappear, or to be entirely irrelevant.

19. I have never had an experience in which time seemed to disappear, or to become entirely irrelevant.

20. I have never had an experience that made me feel that, whatever mistakes I had made in the past, I was completely forgiven.

21. I have never had an experience which completely convinced me (at least at the time) that I and everyone else am immortal.

22. I have never seriously declared "I am God."