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