Nowadays, science restricts the contents of all scientific explanations with very specific and technical definitions. This is specially the case in its attempt to define borderline issues. At the present moment, there is a growing interdisciplinary link between the so-called “sciences of the mind” and the “sciences of the spirit”. This growing connection is especially an issue with mystical phenomena (for instance, when one regards a key issue, such as the existence of God).
Neurobiology usually considers explanations on the basis of the relation “stimulus-response”, but they are not knowledgeable about what happens, for instance, in self-induction. When explaining a mystical experience, it is difficult to define the exact differences of an individual manifesting itself, and one needs to use terms such as “ego”, “I”, “self”, “selfness”, “ipseity”, etc. They are not the same thing. These concepts must therefore be analysed in a comparative way.
My intention is to render a transdisciplinary programme for the study of the first person (I) as a foundation for the study of the “numinous” (the term invented by Rudolf Otto) or the base of all mystical experiences of the homo religious.
Two of the basic aspects of the transdisciplinary programme will be expounded:
My intention is to render a new epistemological and hermeneutical view of the question about the “I” experience of the numinous as a transdisciplinary scientific model.