How do you document encounters with the Holy Spirit?
It's a tough question: Religious experiences are intensely personal, and people have different frames of reference for understanding transcendence. It's possible that a devout Christian might report an experience that's qualitatively similar to that of an atheist standing atop Mount Fuji: an ephemeral feeling of otherness, connectedness, existential clarity. For the Christian, that experience might be interpreted as evidence of God's existence; for the atheist, it might be interpreted as a neurological quirk. Trying to track and chart transcendence with quantitative social science is definitionally fraught: transcendent, that which is beyond what we can know or comprehend.
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