The Psychology and Parapsychology of Spiritual Emergency

A defining aspect of Spiritual Emergency (SE) is ‘psychic opening’ which may predict psi performance. This study tested paranormal (psi) performance individuals who have or had experiences spiritual emergency (i.e., ‘SE-Experients’), and compared their against controls. The also assessed psychological aspects SE to differentiate it from psychosis other proposed psi-inhibitive symptoms—namely, alogia poverty speech), depression, anxiety, stress. Two groups participants were formed: controls (mainly Psychology students) SE-Experients. Participants either completed the on computer in laboratory online. Questionnaires (which includes a subscale psychic opening), positive symptoms psychosis, alogia, identity, belief, mysticism, stress, administered participants, then Imagery Cultivation (IC) picture-identification task, uses shamanic-like journeying protocol (Storm & Rock, 2009). differences between SE-experients measures, direct hitting (as percent hit-rate) mean rank scores, not significant, but sum-of-ranks difference was highly significant. Also, marginally significant score. Direct did correlate significantly with any variable, except correlated opening, emergency. hitting, measure SE. statistical evidence suggests some proportion experience opening. While overlap, only predicted by extrovertive belief (but alogia), whereas only.