# Mystical experience

People in many traditions describe moments of direct experience of something beyond the ordinary. William James (1902) gathered accounts, and researchers and believers read them in different ways.

Connects to:
- [Consciousness](https://mapideas.org/i/mi_conscious)
- [What do mystics report?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_mystics)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Mysticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism)
- [Wikipedia: The Varieties of Religious Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience)

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