We live at the intersection of culture, faith, individuality, and community. Who we see ourselves to be and how all those identities interact matter in our experience of self and others.
The four aspects of an Extraordinary Spiritual Experience help us understand and integrate the event. Set and Setting, Appearance, Revelation, and Disclosure all create a scaffolding for the way we interpret what has happened.
Last week, I talked about the value of structure when we consider what is happening in an Extraordinary Spiritual Experience (ESE). The goal in understanding that structure is to create scaffolds that allow for meaning-making of the experience. More often than not, the process of making meaning of an ESE is a long-term project, commonly called integration in the world of psychedelic therapy. There is the immediate event of the ESE, and then there is…
