Varieties of Spiritual Experience | Robert Wright & David B. Yaden

Subscribe to the Nonzero Newsletter: 0:00 David’s brand new book, The Varieties of Spiritual Experience 4:57 The personal spiritual experience that sparked David’s research 9:17 This book’s relationship to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience 13:24 How common are dramatic spiritual experiences? 22:19 How different are different types of spiritual experience, really? 34:45 Type 1 in the book’s taxonomy of spiritual experiences: The Numinous 42:50 Type 2: The Revelatory 51:19 Type 3: Synchronicity 56:32 Type 4: The Mystical 59:11 Type 5: The Aesthetic 1:02:43 Type 6: The Paranormal 1:06:15 Varieties of psychedelic experience 1:22:02 SPOILERS: James’s surprising conclusions about religious experience Robert Wright (, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and David B. Yaden (Johns Hopkins University). Recorded September 1, 2022. Comments on BhTV: Twitter: Facebook: Podcasts: