MPE – 94: “Minimal Phenomenal Experience” Questionnaire
Introduction and instructions
Please read the following instructions carefully. They explain how to understand and fill out the questionnaire.
This questionnaire is concerned with all experiences in which there is an “awareness of awareness itself” or “consciousness of consciousness itself”. Our target is the subjective experience of “consciousness as such”. Sometimes such states are also referred to as “pure awareness” or “pure consciousness”.
We are interested not primarily in mystical experiences or dramatic spiritual peak experiences of any sort, but rather in all states characterised by a quality of “pure awareness” or of “consciousness itself”. In such states—regardless of the current existence or nonexistence of other consciously experienced contents—an “awareness of awareness” has emerged. In other words, we are interested in states in which the quality of “consciousness” itself is clearly and distinctly experienced.