Varieties of Spiritual Experience (Robert Wright & David B. Yaden)

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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David’s brand new book, The Varieties of Spiritual Experience ... The personal spiritual experience that sparked David’s research ... This book’s relationship to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience ... How common are dramatic spiritual experiences? ... How different are different types of spiritual experience, really? ... Type 1 in the book’s taxonomy of spiritual experiences: The Numinous ... Type 2: The Revelatory ... Type 3: Synchronicity ... Type 4: The Mystical ... Type 5: The Aesthetic ... Type 6: The Paranormal ... Varieties of psychedelic experience ... SPOILERS: James’s surprising conclusions about religious experience ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.4	Hi, David.
0:10.1	Hey, Bob.
0:11.2	How you doing?
0:12.4	Doing well.
0:13.9	Good.
0:15.3	Let me introduce this.
0:16.3	I'm Robert Wright.
0:17.7	Publisher with Non-Zero Newsletters, the Non-Zero Podcast.
0:20.6	You're David Yaden. you got a brand new book
0:24.1	coming out i think today as we tape this probably a few days before this actually posts
0:29.4	of the varieties of spiritual experience 21st century research and perspectives you're holding it up
0:36.5	holding it up this is yeah it's it's book launch day. This is my first, very first book
0:41.2	interview. So this is, oh my God. That puts a lot of pressure on me.
0:46.1	It does. It really does. I'll, I'll try. And you actually read it.
0:50.9	Yes, I have, I have the PDF version. I don't have the physical version. So you are, and this is
1:00.0	co-authored with Andrew Newberg, published by Oxford University Press. You are a professor
1:06.5	at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research.
1:13.3	And by the end of this conversation, we will get into psychedelics, I think, although that's not
1:17.8	primarily what the book is about.
1:20.6	But Johns Hopkins, it seems to me, over the last 20 years, has kind of become deep place for research
1:26.5	into psychedelics.
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