What are EEs and EHEs and how do they differ?
An exceptional experience (EE) is an anomalous experience that affects the experiencer in a personal way so that he or she feels somehow called upon to understand some hidden, deeper meaning in the experience beyond the objective criteria of science, which attempts either to explain the experience away or explain it by known scientific principles, thus ignoring its numinous quality and the feeling of something more being involved than meets the eye. To the experiencer, however, they hint of something more, beyond the limits of science that potentially could be very meaningful. An EE becomes an exceptional human experience (EHE) when its hidden meaning potential has been consciously realized. Usually this realization on the part of the experiencer is not simply new knowledge, but it involves a new way of knowing. When an EHE occurs the person is changed in some way that involves his or her identity, way of life, and worldview.
