RESEARCH

Public·16 members

Demographic studies on spirituality

For expanding the Overton window, the theory of the Innovation Diffusion Curve states that to normalize a new trend, it is paramount to win over at least 15-18% of the population. Then the tipping point is reached when the majority would be won over. According to this theory, there are 2,5% innovators, there's 16% early adopters, there's 34% early majority, etc. Along that line of thought, who are the innovators, the early adopters and the early majority? Perhaps the following scientific papers on spirituality demographics shed more light on that.

Frontiers | More spiritual than religious: Concurrent and longitudinal relations with personality traits, mystical experiences, and other individual characteristics

Association between spirituality/religiousness and quality of life among healthy adults: a systematic review - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

13 Views

Sameer Patel

yesterday

Thanks for sharing. I wonder if its not just about people who identify with the word 'spirituality', it'sraising awareness of a greater reality. Validating the experiences of those that may not identify with that word but have had experiences of interconnectedness, or non-ordinary experiences.

Edited

Jeannet Weurman

April 28, 2025

Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings: Phenomenology, Altered States, Individual Differences, and Well-Being

To start us off posting and discussing research in this section, I wanted to share a study done by David Luke and Jessica Corneille.

They look at Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings (SSAs) and compare them to Altered States of Consciousness (ASCs) in general. They also compare the differences between SSAs and Spontaneous Kundalini Awakenings (SKAs), a subset of SSAs. They consider the impact of such states of on well-being.

The study was published in 2021. This is how they summarise it:

Abstract

Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings (SSAs) are subjective experiences characterised by a sudden sense of direct contact, union, or complete nondual merging (experience of oneness) with a perceived ultimate reality, the universe, "God," or the divine.

These profound transformative experiences have scarcely been researched, despite extensive anecdotal evidence suggesting their potential to catalyse drastic, long-term, and often positive shifts in perception, world-view, and well-being.

33 Views

connect

6 days ago

It doesn't have to be spontaneous because it can be learned and controlled, directed.

About

Please post links to academic research around the topic of N...