HOOD MYSTICISM SCALE

Rating
+2  This description is definitely true of my own experience or experiences.
+1  This description is probably true of my own experience or experiences.
0  I cannot decide.
-1  This description is probably not true of my own experience or experiences.
-2  This description is definitely not true of my own experience or experiences.

Hood’s Mysticism Scale, 32-Item Version

1. I have had an experience which was both timeless and spaceless.
2. I have never had an experience which was incapable of being expressed in words.
3. I have had an experience in which something greater than myself seemed to absorb me.
4. I have had an experience in which everything seemed to disappear from my mind until I was conscious of only a void.
5. I have experienced profound joy.
6. I have never had an experience in which I felt myself to be absorbed as one with
   all things.
7. I have never experienced a perfectly peaceful state.
8. I have never had an experience in which I felt as if all things were alive.
9. I have never had an experience which seemed holy to me.
10. I have never had an experience in which all things seemed to be aware.
11. I have had an experience in which I had no sense of time or space.
12. I have had an experience in which I realized the oneness of myself with all things.
13. I have had an experience in which a new view of reality was revealed to me.
14. I have never experienced anything to be divine.
15. I have never had an experience in which time and space were non-existent.
16. I have never experienced anything that I could call ultimate reality.
17. I have had an experience in which ultimate reality was revealed to me.
18. I have had an experience in which I felt that all was perfection at the time.
19. I have had experience in which I felt everything to be part of the same whole.
20. I have had an experience which I knew to be sacred.
21. I have never had an experience which I was unable to express adequately through
    language.
22. I have had an experience which left me with a feeling of awe.
23. I have had an experience which was impossible to communicate.
24. I have never had an experience in which my own self seemed to merge into
    something greater.
25. I have had never had an experience which left me with a feeling of wonder.
26. I have never had an experience in which deeper aspects of reality were revealed to
    me.
27. I have never had an experience in which time, place and distance were
    meaningless.
28. I have never had an experience in which I became aware of unity to all things.
29. I have had an experience in which all things seemed to be conscious.
30. I have never had an experience in which all things seemed to be unified into a
    single whole.
31. I have had an experience in which I felt nothing is ever really dead.
32. I have had an experience which cannot be expressed in words.

​Factors
Introvertive mysticism: 1, 2R, 3, 4, 6R, 11, 15R, 21R, 23, 24R, 27R, 32 

Extrovertive mysticism: 8R, 10R, 12, 19, 28R, 29, 30R, 31 

​Interpretation: 5, 7R, 9R, 13, 14R, 16R, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25R, 26R

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