Absorption and Spiritual Experience. https://www.academia.edu/39331356/Absorption_and_Spiritual_Experience_Accepted_?source=swp_share … < some people seem to have a natural ability to be absorbed in and by experience and share "a general proclivity for having spiritual experiences."
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In a sense some people *are* more "spiritual". But they are also more prone to believing and being caught up in their own fantasies. It doesn't make what they experience more real or more true.
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I’m not sure that’s fair. Don’t we all naturally develop beliefs & theories about domains where we spend lots of time and attention? So spiritual people have spiritual beliefs, economists have economic theories, social climbers have beliefs about who is important, etc
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Now that I have R’d the FA, I ought to clarify. My “I’m not sure that’s fair” is a response only to your “more prone”. People with high absorption spend more attention on absorption experiences. People without, don’t. The paper doesn’t compare the “rate of belief formation”...
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...between high-absorption people with absorption experiences on the one hand, and low-absorption people with “ordinary” experiences on the other hand.
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