Development and Validation of the Integrated Transcendent Experience of Consciousness Scale (ITEC-18)
April 9, 2026 Miguel D. Molina, Linda Molina, Mauro W. Zappaterra preprint
Transcendent experiences such as mystical, near-death, and Kundalini overlap in their phenomenology and aftereffects. Current theories and psychometric scales offer limited theoretical explanation for the overlap. This study psychometrically tests an explanatory framework proposing a common mechanism underlying transcendent experiences, including transcendent experiences of consciousness. A...