Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings: Phenomenology, Altered States, Individual Differences, and Wellbeing
Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings (SSAs) are subjective experiences characterised by a sudden sense of direct contact, union or complete nondual merging (experience of oneness) with a perceived ultimate reality, the universe, ‘God’, or the divine.
These profound transformative experiences have scarcely been researched, despite extensive anecdotal evidence suggesting their potential to