In these cases, the grandiosity of the group influences the individual in such a way that the individual begins to develop a false sense of empowerment and self-importance. This process may begin with undue flattery and praise due to the groups admiration or envy of the individual\u2019s \u201cabilities,\u201d and\/or as a way for the group to psychologically manipulate the individual into reciprocating flattery and praise as a means to perpetuate and seek approval and support for their own irrational beliefs. Because of the social supportive element in these cases, perspectives can not only reach a heightened level of inflation, but may also become highly delusional and potentially dangerous.<\/p>\n

Due to Magical Thinking and Religiosity<\/h2>\n

These cases typically occur in individuals with strong religious or spiritual backgrounds (Christian, Pagan, etc.). Onset may be due to a single psychotic experience, but the experience may involve genuine extrasensory information.<\/p>\n

In this case, the individual will likely misinterpret the information and insight obtained; and therefore, will not be able to properly integrate their experience into their personal narrative.<\/p>\n

These cases can also occur when the individual is subject to other various influences for grandiose perspectives as aforementioned, and where their own or another religion has supported similar occurrences in history.<\/p>\n

Examples or Forms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

ERRORS \n<\/strong><\/td>\n	\n CORRECTIONS \n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
God Complex:<\/em> The individual believes they know all and see all. The individual believes they are the incarnation of God.<\/td>\n	Clairvoyance:<\/em>The individual has the potential to know and see many things he or she once could not.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prophetic Complex:<\/em> The individual believes they are the reincarnation of a prophet of God, that they have been handpicked by God to prophesize future events or the end of days, or that they have been handpicked by God to save the world or unite the peoples of the world under one God.<\/td>\n	Clairvoyance:<\/em> The individual is one of many individuals in the world with precognitive, postcognitive, and remote viewing experiences. They may misinterpret premonitions in regard to the death of their non-spiritual life as the \u201cend of days,\u201d and\/or misinterpret premonitions in regard to the birth of their spiritual life as \u201cdiscovering that they are the reincarnation of a spiritual or religious prophet or other prominent figure.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \u201cThe valid religious\/spiritual dimensions of the experiences can be salvaged though psychotherapy\u201d (Lukoff, 2000).<\/p>\n \u201cRecovery means recovering the divine from within the disorder, seeing that its contents are authentically religious\u201d (Hillman, 1986).<\/p>\n References:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dein, S. (2012). Mental Health and the Paranormal. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 31(1),\u00a0 61-74. \nHillman, J. (1986). On culture and chronic disorder. In Sardello, R. & Thomas, G. (Eds.), Stirrings of Culture. Dallas: The Dallas Institute Publications. \nLandolt, K., Wittwer, A., Wyss, T., Unterassner, L., Fach, W., Krummenacher, P., & Rossler, W. (2014). Help-seeking in people with exceptional experiences: results from a general population sample. Front Public Health, 2, 51. \nLukoff, D. (2000). DSM-IV Religious and Spiritual Problems. Coursebook. Retrieved from: (www.experiencers.com) \nRoss, C.A., Joshi, S. (1992). Paranormal experiences in the general population. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180, 357-361.<\/cite><\/cite><\/cite><\/cite><\/cite><\/p>\n Citation: Kelly, T.M. (2015). Clinical Parapsychology: Extrasensory <\/cite>Exceptional <\/cite>Experiences (Textbook). University of Alternative Studies. <\/i>Purchase<\/a>.<\/cite> \nCopyright \u00a9 2015 Theresa M. Kelly, MsD. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>. <\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grandiose perspectives on extrasensory experiences typically develop due to one or several of the following: (1) misconceptions regarding the prevalence of such experiences in the general population, (2) confounding experiences with \u201cability,\u201d or experiences with expertise, (3) irrational social enabling and support, and (4) magical thinking and religiosity with or without onset due to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1097,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1206\/revisions\/1861"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpsychics.com\/center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}