Mystical experience: Conceptualizations, measurement, and correlates.
American Psychological Association eBooks December 31, 2012 Ralph W. Hood, Leslie J. Francis 52 citations
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Leslie J. Francis
3 papers in the library · 52 citations · publishing 2012-2026
Papers
The Brazilian Version of the Mystical Orientation Scale Revised (MOSR-BR): An Exploratory Study.
Journal of Religion and Health March 31, 2026 Ana Cláudia Mesquita Garcia, Everson Meireles, Eliza Mara Das Chagas Paiva et al.
A Brazilian Portuguese version of the Mystical Orientation Scale Revised (MOSR-BR) was developed and tested in 505 Brazilian adults. The scale showed a single underlying factor explaining 47.6% of the variance, with very high internal consistency. Higher mystical orientation scores correlated with greater death transcendence and with religious and existential well-being. People who used psychedelic substances occasionally or frequently scored higher on mystical orientation than non-users. The authors note the study is exploratory and limited by its cross-sectional design, non-random sampling, and lack of confirmatory factor analysis or test-retest reliability.
Quest-Religious Orientation Among Church Leaders in Australia: A Function of Psychological Predisposition or Openness to Mystical Experience?
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality April 27, 2017 Leslie J. Francis, A. Village, R. Powell
Church leaders who prioritize religious exploration over certainty are shaped by both their psychological predispositions and their mystical experiences. Among 1,265 Australian church leaders, those with higher quest-religious orientation tended to have psychological preferences for extraversion, intuition, feeling, and perceiving, and also reported higher levels of mystical experience. Mystical orientation partly explained the link between intuition and quest orientation, but both psychological preferences and mystical experiences independently contributed to a questing style of leadership.