Visionary Spiritual Experiences and Cognitive Aspects of Spiritual Transformation
Contemporary scholars have found spiritual and spirituality difficult to define, complaining that their meanings are “vague and contradictory” (Egbert, Mickley, & Coeling, 2004, p. 8). The reason appears to be discomfort with the immaterial, supernatural meaning of spirit, the core reference of spiritual and spirituality. One result of this has been a tendency to conflate…