Is a mystical experience considered as a disorder by psychiatrists?
The article “Your Brain On Religion” might be a fine place for you to start. Briefly, you could certainly track down psychiatrists who consider the mystical experience a. a valid apprehension of a higher order of reality, b. a valid human experience but nonetheless a naturalistic and frequently misinterpreted one, and c. a dangerous delusional carryover from some branching of our evolutionary history which is Bad for the World. Certainly there has been scientific study of the neurological science behind mystical experiences and there is unquestionably something scientifically observable going on there. Before checking out that article I linked above again, I hadn’t heard of the term “neurotheology,” so there may be some value following that up (and note the more info link at the top of that article). Although it is out of print, a book that gets into the topic (and a lot of others around the whole spirituality/consciou
