This study used motivational systems theory (MST; Ford, 1992) to clarify a number of ambiguities surrounding conceptualizations and measures of religious experience and motivation. These ambiguities refer to the differences between numinous and mystical religious experience, extrovertive and introvertive mystic religious experience, and intrinsic and extrinsic religious experience. On the basis...
This study examined various structural models of mystical experience. Confirmatory factor analysis of the responses of a sample of 191 religious Jewish persons residing in Israel to the Mystical Scale (Hood, 1975) was used to examine and compare various models of mystical experience. In general, multidimensional models provided a better fit to the relations between the Mystical Scale items than...