Part I

1. Age:

2. Sex: M F

3. Do you consider yourself to be a religious person? Y N

4. Do you consider yourself to be a spiritual person? Y N

5. Do you engage in any religious or spiritual practices? (eg. Attend formal places of worship, prayer, meditation, yoga, etc.) Please specify.

6. How often do you engage in such practice? (daily, once a week, etc.)

7. How many years have you practiced your current spiritual/religious path?

8. Have you ever been formally diagnosed with a psychological disorder of any kind? Please specify.

9. If yes, were you prescribed and did you take any medication? Please specify.

10. Have you ever visited a mental health professional? Please specify.

11. If yes, was your experience positive or negative?

Part II

Instructions:

For each of the items below either click “Y” for “Yes” or “N” for “No.

Items:

1. Have you ever experienced spontaneous visions of brilliant or flashing lights?
Y N

2. Have you ever found that the familiar boundaries between people, events, time and space were blurred, or not as accessible as they once were?
Y N

3. Have you ever had the experience of dealing with something that has a divine nature and is radically different from your ordinary perception of the everyday world?
Y N

4. If you say you will do something, do you always keep your promise no matter how inconvenient it may be to do so?
Y N

5. Have you ever experienced feelings of pressure, claustrophobia or restlessness along with the feeling that part of you is dying?
Y N

6. Have you ever experienced a greater awareness of your own potential?
Y N

7. Have you ever experienced your eyes and face spontaneously taking on wild and/or terrifying expressions?
Y N

8. Have you ever been led or taken away by someone who appeared to be an extraterrestrial being?
Y N

9. Once in a while, do you lose your temper and get angry?
Y N

10. Have you ever experienced visions of deities, saints, or mythological beings?
Y N

11. Have you ever experienced distressing voices inside your head that didn’t seem to belong to you?
Y N

12. Have you ever had the need to fight off or try to control the actions of a negative being or entity?
Y N

13. Have you ever experienced a time when your sentences were unclear or didn’t make sense?
Y N

14. Have you ever experienced rich connections with mythological symbols from ancient history?
Y N

15. Do you occasionally have thoughts and ideas that you would not like other people to know about?
Y N

16. Have you ever been aware of the presence of spiritual entities?
Y N

17. Have you ever felt strange and cut off from the world with everything moving in slow motion?
Y N

18. Have you ever experienced losing your sense of reference as your outer and inner worlds dissolved?
Y N

19. Have you ever experienced your voice spontaneously taking on a deep and otherworldly quality?
Y N

20. Have you ever experienced a ‘sacred marriage’ or a blissful union with an imaginary mythological figure or an idealized person from your own life?
Y N

21. Have you ever experienced the spontaneous production of complex visual geometrical images or chants inside your head?
Y N

22. Have you ever experienced visions and/or vivid dreams which seemed real even after you woke up?
Y N

23. Are all your habits good and desirable ones?
Y N

24. Have you ever experienced being taken to a distant land or an “otherworldly” landscape, unlike anything you have seen on earth?
Y N

25. Have you ever experienced a connection with the afterlife or communication with your ancestors?
Y N

26. Have you ever been really convinced of something being real even though others did not share the same belief?
Y N

27. Do you sometimes gossip?
Y N

28. Have you ever experienced the sense of becoming one with humanity, nature, the creative energy of the universe and/or God?
Y N

29. Have you ever experienced the spontaneous desire to create rituals?
Y N

30. Have you ever made contact with someone whom you believed to be an extraterrestrial being?
Y N

31. Have you ever been overwhelmed by powerful emotions and physical sensations, concerning yourself and others in various circumstances and historical settings?
Y N

32. Have you ever experienced intense involuntary body movements such as shaking, vibrations or jerking for no apparent reason?
Y N

33. Would you always declare everything at customs, even if you knew that you could never be found out?
Y N

34. Have you ever found yourself desperately trying to make sense of an unfamiliar environment?
Y N

35. Have you ever experienced a review of your entire life within moments of ordinary time?
Y N

36. Have you ever found yourself out of your physical body, passing through some kind of dark tunnel?
Y N

37. Have you ever seen something that you believed to be an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)?
Y N

38. Have you ever entered an altered state of consciousness where a spirit, power, deity or other being assumed control over your mind and body?
Y N

39. Have you ever experienced difficulty in separating powerful, vivid inner experiences from occurrences in the outer world?
Y N

40. Have you ever experienced someone outside of yourself controlling your body or actions?
Y N

41. Have you ever spontaneously burst into sacred songs and dances?
Y N

42. Have you ever been late for an appointment or work?
Y N

43. Have you ever heard voices as distinct from your own coming from inside your head?
Y N

44. Have you ever experienced precognition, knowing of an event before it actually occurred?
Y N

45. Have you ever been attacked by demons, exposing you to torture, death and/or annihilation while in an alternative state of consciousness?
Y N

46. Have you ever witnessed physical disturbances such as movements in a house with no apparent physical cause?
Y N

47. Of all the people you know, there are some whom you definitely do not like?
Y N

48. Have you ever experienced a state of profound peace and beauty?
Y N

49. Have you ever experienced significant difficulties in keeping up with social and/or occupational obligations?
Y N

50. Have you ever spontaneously attained profound insights into the nature of reality?
Y N

51. Have you ever experienced sensations such as smelling the scent of sandalwood, perfume or incense without knowing where it’s coming from?
Y N

52. Have you ever undertaken a powerful inner experience that involved a journey into another world?
Y N

53. Do you sometimes talk about things you know little about?
Y N

54. Have you ever believed that your thoughts were being interfered with in some way?
Y N

55. Have you ever experienced yourself performing involuntary, previously unknown, yogic postures or hand positions?
Y N

56. Have you ever had the ability to move into and out of non-ordinary states of consciousness at will?
Y N

57. Have you ever spontaneously received accurate information about things in the past, present or future, by extra-sensory means?
Y N

58. Have you ever been led or taken away by what you believed to be an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
Y N

59. Have you ever felt cut off from the deeper self, higher power, God, or whatever source you depend on for strength and inspiration?
Y N

60. Have you ever experienced a growing discrepancy between your inner spiritual needs and the widespread materialistic emphasis of our society?
Y N

61. Have you ever experienced living what seemed to be another life, in another time and place, in great detail?
Y N

62. Have you ever felt that you were in the centre of huge events that had cosmic relevance and were important for the future of the world?
Y N

63. Have you ever felt like you were “stuck in a meaningless cycle of life”?
Y N

64. Have you ever had an extraordinary experience that has fundamentally challenged your understanding of reality?
Y N

65. Have you ever received the help of an “other worldly” in order to gain a deeper understanding about life and/or universal laws?
Y N

66. Have you ever been “so in touch with the inner processes” of another that you can tell what they’re thinking?
Y N

67. Have you ever developed a deep change in consciousness during which you lost contact with everyday reality?
Y N

68. Have you ever experienced a visionary state taking you back through your own history and that of mankind to creation?
Y N

69. Have you ever felt a sense of overcoming the usual divisions of the body and mind and reaching a state of complete inner unity and wholeness?
Y N

70. Have you ever experienced yourself as the chosen one with an important message on a mission to help all of mankind?
Y N

71. Have you ever found yourself spontaneously producing previously unknown words or sounds?
Y N

72. Have you ever spontaneously gained a greater understanding of the cosmos?
Y N

73. Have you ever undergone a scientific or medical examination by someone who you believed to be an extraterrestrial being?
Y N

74. Have you ever experienced going beyond your normal understanding of time and space and entered a timeless realm where these categories no longer apply?
Y N

75. Have you ever heard voices, music or the repetition of mantras, without knowing where they’re coming from?
Y N

76. Have you ever experienced a precognitive dream providing you with formerly unknown information?
Y N

77. Have you ever felt that your internal world was being played out in the external communication of those around you?
Y N

78. Have you ever experienced your hands or body taking on strange contortions or making involuntary movements?
Y N

79. Have you ever experienced insights and/or visions, in which you received secret or sacred teachings and healing powers to take back to the “ordinary” world?
Y N

80. Have you ever found your everyday thoughts becoming confused or not joining up properly?
Y N

81. Have you ever experienced intense sensations of energy and/or heat streaming along your spine?
Y N

82. Have you ever experienced sensations of deep peace, tranquillity, joy, and overwhelming waves of bliss?
Y N

83. Have you ever spontaneously lost your sense of identity?
Y N

84. Have you ever felt like you have personally witnessed detailed sequences of events taking place in other historical periods and/or cultures that you have had no previous exposure to?
Y N

85. Have you ever spontaneously attained profound insights into the nature of reality?
Y N

86. Have you ever experienced strong instructive intuition?
Y N

87. Have you ever experienced seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling or tasting something that no one else could?
Y N

88. Have you ever been preoccupied with the theme of death, ritual killing, sacrifice, martyrdom and/or the afterlife?
Y N

89. Have you ever been able to see auras around people, animals, plants or other living things?
Y N

90. Have you ever experienced an increased connection with animals and plants and the elemental forces of nature?
Y N

91. Have you ever had an extraordinary experience that has prompted you to change the way you live in a more positive and loving way?
Y N

92. Have you ever experienced dramatic episodes of choking, projectile vomiting and/or frantic physical activity?
Y N

93. Have you ever experienced a string of events that “seemed to be connected” at some deeper level?
Y N

94. Do you believe that you have lived in another lifetime before this present one?
Y N

95. Have you ever experienced great difficulty in organizing your thoughts?
Y N

96. Have you ever experienced parts of your physical body expanding and/or dissolving?
Y N

97. Have you ever experienced powerful waves of emotion, such as anxiety, anger, sadness or joy, for no apparent reason?
Y N

98. Has your body ever been “invaded” by a hostile and disturbing energy or entity?
Y N

99. Have you ever found yourself outside of your physical body?
Y N

100. Have you ever been aware of a cosmic battle being played out between the forces of good and evil or light and darkness?
Y N

101. Have you ever experienced a sense of complete and unconditional acceptance, love and forgiveness?
Y N

102. Do you believe that some of the difficulties you have in your life may be due to unresolved conflicts from a previous lifetime?
Y N

103. Have you ever experienced the destruction of an old sense of identity followed by rebirth and a renewed purpose for living?
Y N

104. Have you ever felt like you were being controlled by an entity or energy with different personal characteristics than your own?
Y N

105. Have you ever experienced marked differences in your breathing pattern for no apparent reason?
Y N

106. Have you ever experienced a greater awareness of the interconnectedness of all things?
Y N

107. Have you ever found yourself laughing inappropriately or becoming angry or upset without a reason?
Y N

108. Have you ever found yourself out of your physical body, moving toward a light of supernatural brilliance?
Y N

TRANSLIMINALITY SCALE

Instructions: For each of the items below either select “T” for “True” or “F” for “False.

DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE

Instructions:

This questionnaire consists of twenty-eight questions about experiences that you may have in your daily life. We are interested in how often you have these experiences. It is important, however, that your answers show how often these experiences happen to you when you are not under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

To answer the questions, please determine to what degree the experience described in the question applies to you and write the number in the text box to show what percentage of the time you have the experience.

EXAMPLE

(never)0% 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100% (always)

Items:

1. Some people have the experience of driving or riding in a car or bus or subway and suddenly realizing, that they don’t remember what has happened during all or part of the trip.

2. Some people find that sometimes they are listening to someone talk and they suddenly realize that they did not hear part or all of what was said.

3. Some people have the experience of finding themselves in a place and having no idea how they got there.

4. Some people have the experience of finding themselves dressed in clothes that they don’t remember putting on.

5. Some people have the experience of finding new things among their belongings that they do not remember buying.

6. Some people sometimes find that they are approached by people that they do not know who call them by another name or insist that they have met them before.

7. Some people sometimes have the experience of feeling as though they are standing next to themselves or watching themselves do something and they actually see themselves as if they were looking at another person.

8. Some people are told that they sometimes do not recognize friends or family members.

9. Some people find that they have no memory for some important events in their lives (for example, a wedding or graduation).

10. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied.

11. Some people have the experience of looking in a mirror and not recognizing themselves.

12. Some people have the experience of feeling that other people, objects, and the world around them are not real.

13. Some people have the experience of feeling that their body does not seem to belong to them.

14. Some people have the experience of sometimes remembering a past event so vividly that they feel as if they were reliving that event.

15. Some people have the experience of not being sure whether things that they remember happening really did happen or whether they just dreamed them.

16. Some people have the experience of being in a familiar place but finding it strange and unfamiliar. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.

17. Some people find that when they are watching television or a movie they become so absorbed in the story that they are unaware of other events happening around them.

18. Some people find that they become so involved in a fantasy or daydream that it feels as though it were really happening to them.

19. Some people find that they sometimes are able to ignore pain.

20. Some people find that they sometimes sit staring off into space, thinking of nothing, and are not aware of the passage of time.

21. Some people sometimes find that when they are alone they talk out loud to themselves.

22. Some people find that in one situation they may act so differently compared to another situation that they feel almost as if they were two different people.

23. Some people sometimes find that in certain situations they are able to do things with amazing ease and spontaneity that would usually be difficult for them (for example, sports, work, social situations, etc.).

24. Some people sometimes find that they cannot remember whether they have done something or have just thought about doing that thing (for example, not knowing whether they have just mailed a letter or have just thought about mailing it).

25. Some people find evidence that they have done things that they do not remember doing.

26. Some people sometimes find writings, drawings, or notes among their belongings that they must have done but cannot remember doing.

27. Some people sometimes find that they hear voices inside their head that tell them to do things or comment on things that they are doing.

28. Some people sometimes feel as if they are looking at the world through a fog so that people and objects appear far away or unclear.

CREATIVE PERSONALITY SCALE

Instructions:

Please rate yourself using the following scale to show the degree to which you agree with the statements. Please enter a number in the text box.

1 strongly disagree

2 somewhat disagree

3 slightly disagree

4 slightly agree

5 somewhat agree

6 strongly agree

16PF – SHORT VERSION

Instructions:

Please select the response that best describes you.

Items:

1. When something upsets me, I usually get over it quite soon.
true
?
false

2. When I was a child, I spent more free time:
making or building something;
?
reading or daydreaming

3. I get excited about good plays or novels.
true
?
false

4. My friends think I’m slightly absent-minded and not always practical.
true
?
false

5. I get into trouble because I sometimes pursue my own ideas without talking them over with the people involved.
true
?
false

6. My thoughts are too deep and complicated for many people to understand.
hardly ever
?
often

7. I’d prefer to deal with people who are:
conventional and polite in what they say;
?
direct and speak up about problems they see.

8. I like to think up better ways of doing things rather than to follow well-tried ways.
true
?
false

9. If I had to cook or build something, I’d follow the directions exactly.
true, why take chances;
?
false, I’d probably try to make it more interesting.

10. It’s hard to be patient when people criticize me.
true
?
false

11. If my carefully made plans have to be changed because of other people:
it annoys me;
?
I’m happy to change plans.

12. When one small thing after another goes wrong, I:
feel as though I can’t cope;
?
just go on as usual.

13. When the time comes for something I have planned and looked forward to, I occasionally do not feel up to going.
true
?
false

14. If I could, I would rather exercise by:
fencing or dancing;
?
wrestling or baseball.

15. It would be more interesting to be a musician than a mechanic.
true
?
false

16. I’m the type of person who:
is always doing practical things that need to be done;
?
daydreams and thinks up things on my own.

17. My thoughts tend to be about sensible, down-to-earth things.
true
?
false

18.I don’t really like people who are “different” or unusual.
usually true
?
usually false

19. I’m more interested in:
seeking personal meaning in life;
?
a secure job that pays well.

20. What this world needs is:
more steady, solid citizens;
?
more reformers with opinions about how to improve the world.

21. If people interrupt me while I’m trying to do something, it doesn’t bother me.
true
?
false

22. Sometimes I get frustrated with people too quickly.
true
?
false

23. In my personal life I reach the goals I set, almost all of the time.
true
?
false

24. I feel that my emotional needs are:
not too satisfied;
?
well satisfied.

25. If I worked on a newspaper, I’d rather deal with:
movie or book reviews;
?
sports or politics.

26. I’d rather stop in the street to watch an artist painting than a building being constructed.
true
?
false

27. I get new ideas about all sorts of things, too many to put into practice.
true
?
false

28. I pay more attention to:
the practical things around me;
?
thoughts and imagination.

29. I find people more interesting if their views are different from most people.
true
?
false

30. I like people who:
are stable and conventional in their interests;
?
seriously think through their views about life.

31. Work that is familiar and routine makes me feel:
bored and sleepy;
?
secure and confident.

32. Even when someone is slow to understand what I’m explaining, it’s easy for me to be patient.
true
?
false

33. When I have to wait in a long line for something, I don’t get as restless and fidgety as most people.
true, I don’t;
?
false, I get restless.

34. I don’t let myself get depressed over little things.
true
?
false

35. I’d usually appreciate the beauty of a poem more than an expert football strategy.
true
?
false

36. I’m always interested in mechanical things and I’m pretty good at fixing them.
true
?
false

37. Sometimes I get so lost in my thoughts that, unless I watch out, I misplace things, have small mishaps, or lose track of time.
true
?
false

38. People often say that my ideas are realistic and practical.
true
?
false

39. I like to think out ways in which our world could be changed to improve it.
true
?
false

40. In my newspaper, I’d rather read:
articles on current social problems;
?
all the local news.

41. I am patient with people, even when they aren’t polite and considerate of my feelings.
true
?
false

42. I get frustrated when people take too long to explain something.
true
?
false

43. I usually go to bed at night feeling satisfied with how my day went.
true
?
false

44. I have more ups and downs in mood than most people I know.
usually true
?
usually false

45. I prefer reading rough and realistic action stories more than sensitive, imaginative novels.
true
?
false

46. In school I preferred (or prefer) math more than English.
true
?
false

47. I get so interested in thinking about ideas that I sometimes overlook practical details.
true
?
false

48. Sometimes I don’t fit in very well because my ideas are not conventional or ordinary.
true
?
false

49. More trouble arises from people:
questioning and changing methods that are already satisfactory;
?
turning down promising, new approaches.

50. When I find I differ with someone on social views, I prefer to:
discuss what our basic differences mean;
?
discuss something else.

51. I most enjoy a meal if it consists of familiar, everyday foods rather than new, unusual foods.
true
?
false

52. When I’m feeling tense, even small things get on my nerves.
true
?
false

53. I’ve trained myself to be patient with all kinds of people.
true
?
false

54. There are times when I don’t feel in the right mood to see anyone.
very rarely
?
quite often

55. In my everyday life, I hardly ever meet problems that I can’t cope with.
true, I can cope easily
?
false

56. On television, I’d rather watch:
a program on practical new inventions;
?
a famous concert artist