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Exceptional Human Experience

Exceptional Human Experience is Rhea White's term for for a Connection Experience.[1]

Syncretic Terms for Connection Experience

Notes

"Exceptional human experience is a global term for what have been called mystical, psychic, peak, and flow experiences." [2]

White claims to have isolated eighty types of EHEs, broken down into five classes, Mystical Experiences (conversion, unitive), psychic experiences (OBE, precognition, etc.), encounter-type experiences (angel/UFO), Death related experiences NDE, mediumistic experiences), and exceptional normal experiences (aesthetic experiences, empathy.

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Footnotes

  1. White, Rhea A. “Exceptional Human Experiences and the Experiential Paradigm.” In Body, Mind, Spirit, 83–100. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 1997.
  2. White, Rhea A. “Exceptional Human Experiences and the Experiential Paradigm.” In Body, Mind, Spirit, 83–100. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 1997. p. 83