How People Describe Their Mystical Experiences: Analyzing Language, Narrative, and Digital Expression
Transactions on Social Science Education and Humanities Research July 2, 2026 Daniel Zhu
This study investigates how mystical experiences are articulated in digital environments, especially in religion-focused communities (“subreddits”) on Reddit, a popular social media platform. Classical theorists like William James argued that mystical experiences resist linguistic expression; in other words, according to the traditional scholarly view, these phenomena are inherently...