The MEQ30 (Mystical Experience Questionnaire) is a validated tool for assessing mystical experiences. It includes 30 questions designed to evaluate the subjective aspects of a psychedelic experience, grouped into four core categories.
Mystical
Feelings of unity, sacredness, and noetic quality (a sense of deep understanding).
Positive Mood
Emotions such as joy, peace, and a sense of transcendence.
Transcendence of Time and Space
A sense of timelessness and the perception of being beyond normal spatial boundaries.
Ineffability
The difficulty or impossibility of describing the experience in words.
Freedom from the limitations of your personal self and feeling a unity or bond with what was felt to be greater than your personal self.
Experience of pure being and pure awareness (beyond the world of sense impressions).
Experience of oneness in relation to an “inner world” within.
Experience of the fusion of your personal self into a larger whole.
Experience of unity with ultimate reality.
Feeling that you experienced eternity or infinity.
Experience of oneness or unity with objects and/or persons perceived in your surroundings.
Experience of the insight that “all is One.”
Awareness of the life or living presence in all things.
Gain of insightful knowledge experienced at an intuitive level.
Certainty of encounter with ultimate reality (in the sense of being able to “know” and “see” what is really real at some point during your experience.
You are convinced now, as you look back on your experience, that in it you encountered ultimate reality (i.e., that you “knew” and “saw” what was really real).
Sense of being at a spiritual height.
Sense of reverence.
Feeling that you experienced something profoundly sacred and holy.
Experience of amazement.
Feelings of tenderness and gentleness.
Feelings of peace and tranquility.
Experience of ecstasy.
Sense of awe or awesomeness.
Feelings of joy.
Loss of your usual sense of time.
Loss of your usual sense of space.
Loss of usual awareness of where you were.
Sense of being “outside of” time, beyond past and future.
Being in a realm with no space boundaries.
Experience of timelessness.
Sense that the experience cannot be described adequately in words.
Feeling that you could not do justice to your experience by describing it in words.
Feeling that it would be difficult to communicate your own experience to others who have not had similar experiences.