For over a decade now, my main practices tend to be pretty peaceful in content.  Sitting meditation, heart visualizations, advaita teachings, etc.

However, a couple of times in the last 10 years, I've experimented with "active" type of meditation/psychological release formats.

By this I'm talking about psychological workshops such as gestalt, "shout it out" workshops, beating a pillow, fast breathing, etc.

Or, energized meditations such as Osho (Rajneesh) Dynamic Meditation, or "Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation", a book by Christopher Hyatt, who is one of the rebellious psychedelic crowd of the 60's. 

As I mentioned a couple of days ago when commenting on submitting the will towards God, this adds a certain different "flavor" to meditation. 

These type of meditations can be incredibly enlivening, incredibly powerful, and very opening.  Also, in these type of practices, it is also quite easy to shine a light on all the unconscious and negative elements of the personality.  Sort of like shining a light up your own psychological rear-end, as it were.  I did a style of this type of meditation for over two years.

But for myself , long-term, they tended towards being a distraction from the primary joy (for me) of clear seeing, and a peaceful loving heart, as the "drama" of the psychological release and discovery, seemed to harm clear seeing as much as it helped.  There are aspects of both.  As well, these dramatic and embodies practices are, well, LOUD for the psyche, I would say - at least for me, the truths revealed oftentimes contradicted, or spoke to other levels, of insights that are revealed when I sit.   (What am I in denial of now?  How about now?  And now?)

So I'm left with the quandary of how to integrate these VERY different type of psychological or meditation practices, and the very different, but valuable openings these practices create. 

As I've said before, a single individual can't do everything.  But  I hope at one point to take up an embodiesd practice that is an ally with sitting, heart visualizations/prayers, and advaita.

Lastly, for my mind, the "variety of religious experiences" aspect is simply so fascinating - that so many different experiences can reveal so many diferent insights - somatic, psychological, emotional, energetic, and mental.