~ Charles Richet

The Spiritual Experience Project

I’m Cynna Seagrove. I’m a researcher collecting stories from regular people who’ve had spiritual or mystical experiences, also known as spiritually transformative experiences, or STEs. 

In the 1990s, I began having spontaneous spiritual experiences. Even though my experiences were positive, I was having some side-effects (the kind I later learned many near-death experiencers have) and I had a lot of questions. Why had this happened to me, seemingly out of the blue? Was this somehow related to near-death experiences, without my having to be near death? 

My background is in both journalism and hypnotherapy, so I began to explore my experiences in a down-to-earth, practical way, because I view STEs not as supernatural, but as a natural part of life to be investigated. 

For the first seven years after my initial STEs, I had no one to talk to about them. It’s easy to feel isolated if there’s no sympathetic person who can understand, or at least listen without judgment. And it can be hard to talk about experiences that happened in a reality beyond the material. One of the best ways to integrate an experience is to talk about it in a safe atmosphere with someone who understands and believes you, usually a fellow experiencer. If a person gets a negative reaction when disclosing an STE or NDE to a family member, medical person, or mental health professional, they may not tell another soul for years. They are then left to process it without help or support which makes it much harder.

If you have an experience to share, I’d be interested to know: 
- What happened?
- How do you feel about what happened?
- Was anything you did particularly helpful in integrating the experience into your life so you could become more comfortable with it?
- What meaning does it have in your life now?
- Did you have any sort of regular spiritual practice at the time your experience happened?

Share An Experience

If you’d like to share an experience story with the Spiritual Experience Project, please email me at cynnaseagrove@protonmail.com. The stories will be used in a book. I will change all names for privacy.

Online Group for Spiritual Experiencers
I facilitate a group online with my co-leader, Carol, through the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE.) We provide a safe place to talk, plus support and information. If you’ve had an experience and you’d like to learn more about the group, please email us at: peersupportgroup@protonmail.com.