In this book, Phillip Wiebe examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing how these experiences appear to implicate a spiritual order. Despite the current prevalence of naturalism and atheism, he argues that experiences purporting to have a religious or spiritual significance deserve close empirical investigation. Wiebe surveys the broad scope of religious experience and considers different types of evidence that might give rise to a belief in phenomena such as spirits, paranormal events, God, and an afterlife. He demonstrates that there are different explanations and...

This book examines religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences, assessing in what ways these experiences seemingly implicate a spiritual order. The scope of religious experience is surveyed and different kinds of evidence are considered that might give rise to a belief in spiritual phenomena such as spirits and an afterlife.