In this analysis, each utterance is scored by three forced choice questions called principles of classification (source of experience, frame of reference, and presumption).
For a review of the efforts to systematically study the nature and classify the forms of religious behaviour, experience, and phenomena, see religion, phenomenology of; religion, philosophy of; religion, study of; religions, classification of; religious experience.
Among those who have attempted a fairly detailed classification of mystical experience, but not necessarily from a scientific-psychological point of view, mention should be made of the English scholar Evelyn Underhill (1875 1941), drawing on examples from the Jewish, Christian, and Islāmic traditions.
This method of classification of functional experience is well-established in existing research (see Finkelstein et al. 2009, pp. 97 106, for a review).
Rather than relating to classification of an experience as 'normal' and therefore not reported, participants seemed to shape their perception of significance more around expectations of what would be significant to the doctor.
Criteria for a classification of lifetime experience of probable BD: BD, type I: Ever 'manic or hyper' for 2 days OR ever 'irritable/argumentative' for 2 days; plus at least 3 features from 'more active'moreore talkative'neededded less sleep' and 'more creative/more ideas'; plus duration of a week or more; plus ' needed treatment or caused problems at work'.
Philosophers have focused on such topics as the classification of mystical experiences, their nature in different religions and mystical traditions, to what extent mystical experiences are conditioned by a mystic's language and culture, and whether mystical experiences furnish evidence for the truth of their contents.
Following signed consent, nurses were assigned a study identification number, and demographic information regarding their age, nurse classification, and length of experience was collected.
More objective data on exposure to tests, or more detail on reported exposure (eg. asking both how many patients with results and how many tests) may have provided a more accurate classification of level of experience.
Therefore, given that there are these existing classifications of meditation experience, it would be useful to submit them to experimental study with physiological measures.
