Table 3. Correlations between latent factors and observed correlations of the OAV.

Scale	Experience of unity	Spiritual experience	Blissful state	Insightfulness	Disembodiment	Impaired control and cognition	Anxiety	Complex imagery	Elementary imagery	Audio-visual synesthesiae	Changed meaning of percepts
New scales
Experience of unity	–	.82	.72	.78	.74	.50	.28	.61	.41	.54	.65
Spiritual experience	.69	–	.67	.80	.53	.27	.24	.53	.37	.42	.47
Blissful state	.62	.53	–	.63	.39	.11	−.07	.45	.25	.34	.46
Insightfulness	.63	.61	.49	–	.49	.34	.30	.61	.45	.47	.67
Disembodiment	.64	.45	.35	.39	–	.64	.37	.49	.33	.44	.48
Impaired control and cognition	.43	.24	.11	.27	.53	–	.70	.43	.36	.35	.62
Anxiety	.25	.22	−.06	.24	.32	.63	–	.23	.26	.20	.39
Complex imagery	.52	.44	.39	.48	.40	.36	.20	–	.73	.65	.53
Elementary imagery	.37	.34	.25	.36	.29	.33	.27	.62	–	.70	.41
Audio-visual synesthesiae	.49	.38	.32	.39	.39	.31	.18	.56	.62	–	.44
Changed meaning of percepts	.55	.39	.40	.53	.38	.50	.32	.42	.35	.38	–
Old scales
Altered state of consciousness	.83	.66	.57	.68	.70	.69	.51	.70	.62	.64	.72
Oceanic boundlessness	.92	.76	.76	.71	.72	.46	.25	.58	.43	.52	.62
Dread of ego dissolution	.39	.26	.03	.30	.50	.91	.86	.34	.35	.29	.48
Visionary restructuralization	.62	.50	.46	.61	.47	.49	.32	.82	.79	.78	.69

Note. Correlations between latent factors are above the diagonal. Correlations based on scale sum scores are below the diagonal. All correlations were statistically significant at p<.001 except for blissful state with dread of ego dissolution, anxiety, and impaired control and cognition.