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a-priori on Dec 5, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parapsychology: the control group for science

Two examples I can think of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_poisoning (the "haunted houses" section)

Alex3917 on Dec 6, 2009 [–]

Those aren't mystical experiences. An experience is only a mystical one if it scores above a certain threshold on the empirically derived Mysticism Scale, and ghost experiences definitely would not qualify.

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