“…This scale has been used in a number of other studies and shows good qualifies of reliability and validity (Hood, 1976(Hood, , 1978Hood, Hall, Watson, & Biderman, 1979;Morris & Hood, 1980;Holm, 1982;Cowling, 1935;Caird, 1988;Stifler, Greer, Sneck, & Dovenmuehle, 1993;Reinert & Stifler, 1993). The main problem, however, with Stace's definition is that it broadens the construct of mysticism to include two components which may be correlates of mysticism but may also be experienced independently of the other key components, namely positive affect and religious quality.…”