Jonathan Dinsmore, MS, is an instructor in psychology at the University of Arkansas. He is author of Mystical Luminosity: The Initiation of a Construct Grounded in Phenomenology.
Here he shares how the science of psychology can cast illumination on a concept that can be found in virtually every religious and mystical tradition. He claims that this is a real experience that can be studied through the lens of phenomenology.
00:00 Introduction
03:34 The experiences of Federico Faggin and others
10:28 Religious, Near-death, psychedelic descriptions
21:17 Luminosity experience inventory
24:01 Mystical paradoxes
29:20 Bioluminescence
35:42 Phenomenological interviews
43:46 Parsimonious explanations
51:18 Phenomenology
57:12 Conclusion
(Recorded on September 9, 2024)
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Published on October 9, 2024
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