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Flights of the soul: Vision, Heavenly Journeys, and Peak Experiences in the Biblical Word
Reports of dreams, journeys into the heavens, and other alternate states of consciousness abound in the Old and New Testaments and in extrabiblical literature. While some scholars have considered such reports to be simple literary devices, John J. Pilch ― a leading expert in social scientific interpretation of the Bible ― believes otherwise. As Pilch points out, anthropological research on over 400 representative cultures in the world shows that more than ninety percent of these cultures have reported such experiences routinely.
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