Anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann and her cohort developed something called the Sensory Delight Scale, a kind of counterpart/complement to the Tellegen Absorption Scale, that measures “who is more able, by temperament and choice, to have vivid experiences of gods and spirits.” If you answer yes to all of these, you might be a mystic!
When I’m listening to music, I like to imagine the sounds taking shape and moving in the air around me.
When I finish reading a really powerful book, I find that the ordinary world around me seems oddly unfamiliar.
Sometimes I feel like my body is weightless, as if I’m floating, even when my feet are firmly on the ground.
I like to watch the shapes and movements that sunlight makes reflecting off the water.
Sometimes the world seems intensely present to me.
I like to think that the trees in a forest are talking with each other.
I have had a distinct sense of a watchful presence.
Sometimes when I am at a concert, I find that the music has ended a few seconds ago and everyone is clapping before I notice.
The sounds of different languages seem to be connected to different colors in my mind.
Sometimes I feel like the air is full of little bubbles of light.
Sometimes I feel like I can sense the passage of time almost tangibly.
When I hear the waves lap against the shore, I sometimes think of how much those waves might know.
I find joy in little things, like a newly opened flower.
Exquisite pleasure sometimes floods my senses.
I can get lost watching a spider lower itself on a thread.
Sometimes I feel the arms of the universe embrace me.
When I dance, I like to feel that my body is simply responding to the music.
Thoughts can have different colors for me.
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