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Ralph Hood Jr. The University  of Tennessee at Chattanooga Empirical Supernature The M scale is very important in my book The Trace of God by Joseph Hinman   please click here, go to my book trailer and watch it so it will move higher up the ladder on You tube, so it will  be seen by more people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGmDnyI7Aw   Order The Trace of God, by Joseph Hinman on Amazon              Why should we assume that such experiences are experiences of the divine? The first reason is because the content of the experience is largely that of the divine. Even when the experience is interpreted by the receiver not be about God the receiver has been known to act in way consistently with belief in God, and the experience described is the same experience as those described by those who say ‘this was God.’ Ergo it’s just a matter of interpretation. The vast majority of ...

The M Scale and Universal Nature of Mystical Experience Ralph Hood Jr. The University  of Tennessee at Chattanooga The issues about the M scale are at the center of my book, The Trace of God ( now available on Amazon). Empirical Supernature             Why should we assume that such experiences are experiences of the divine? The first reason is because the content of the experience is largely that of the divine. Even when the experience is interpreted by the receiver not be about God the receiver has been known to act in way consistently with belief in God, and the experience described is the same experience as those described by those who say ‘this was God.’ Ergo it’s just a matter of interpretation. The vast majority of those who have these experiences do believe they are about God. [1] Secondly, there is a voluminous and ancient tradition of writing about experiences by people from all over the...