Oops, forgot to ask ... Wolfgang, is the study material you recommended in a university text or in an issue of the American Psychiatric Journal? I'd love to find it ... what you've reported about it sounds so VERY intriguing!
I really do like to have a healthy balance of the scientific with the spiritual when investigating these matters. All the "new-agisms" which seemed so absolutely wonderful to me years ago have been giving me quite the royal PITA (Pain-in-the-a**) lately ....