"Spiritual emergence is the process of personal awakening into a level of perceiving and functioning, which is beyond normal ego functioning. The process may at first include one of the following phenomena: out-of-body experiences, occult phenomena, pre-cognition, clairvoyance, astral travel and perception of auras. At its peak, spiritual emergence is the experience of the ultimate unity of all things, a mystical experience, a merging with the Divine which transcends verbal description. Among the positive effects of this process are increased creativity, feelings of peace and an expanded sense of compassion." (Bragdon, 1988,p.10)
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