This Group takes a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious experience. We welcome paper and panel proposals on any topic in the study of mysticism, including papers on methodological approaches to the study of mysticism. We are especially interested in the following topics (panel proposals are especially encouraged):

• The validation and/or condemnation of mystical experience — drawing the differences among mystical experience, self delusion and psychosis)
• For a possible cosponsorship with the Buddhist Critical–Constructive Reflection Group, mysticism and silence across religious traditions
• Mysticism and death — physical death or extinction of the ego
  
• Mysticism and cosmogony — mystical reflection on the origins of the cosmos
  
• Mysticism in Africa and the African diaspora
  
• Mystical joy and sorrow

We accept submissions only via the official website of the AAR through its online paper proposal  (OP3) system. In order to present a paper at the Annual Meeting, one must be a current member of the AAR.