Absorption and Trance-Inductive Poetry

Gucksohn, Joseph; Tsur, Reuven; Goodblatt, Chanita

doi:10.2190/e4a8-89a9-dq54-5ryc

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“…Turning to the correlations among these variables (see table 2), we find that absorption is positively correlated with both TEI and SEI, as well as with both dissociation and hallucinations (Launay^Slade). Evidently, this personality trait underlies the commonality of experience tapped by these different, though related, measures (see also Glicksohn and Avnon 1997;Glicksohn et al 1991;Roche and McConkey 1990;Wild et al 1995). The score on the Launay^Slade questionnaire, in turn, is positively correlated with both TEI and SEI (themselves also positively correlated), suggesting a common pseudohallucinatory experiential base (see also Bentall 1990;D Marks and McKellar 1982).…”

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Cognitive Dedifferentiation in Eidetics and Synaesthesia: Hunting for the Ghost Once More

1999

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Both synaesthesia and eidetics have a common characteristic of cognitive dedifferentiation. Synaesthesia (e.g. colour-hearing) entails the dedifferentiation of the sensory modalities, while eidetic imagery entails the dedifferentiation of imagery and perception. One can profitably gain by investigating both within the same study. Moreover, some of the same issues have arisen in these, hitherto, separate research literatures. This behoves a common framework for analysis and investigation. We applied a technique previously used for identifying child eidetikers, for screening the adult population, looking at both phenomena in the same sample. After screening, we selected a total of twenty-nine individuals for controlled testing of both phenomena and their variants (structural eidetic imagery, typographic eidetic imagery, colour-hearing synaesthesia, colour-mood synaesthesia). Our participants also completed a number of questionnaires of relevance (absorption, dissociation, and hallucination). We found that the personality trait of absorption underlies the commonality of experience tapped by both typographic and structural eidetic imagery. Furthermore, the latter phenomena were found to have a common pseudohallucinatory experiential base. For subjects scoring relatively high on the absorption scale, there is a negative correlation between structural eidetic imagery and colour-mood synaesthetic differentiation, replicating to a degree results reported earlier.

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Cognitive Dedifferentiation in Eidetics and Synaesthesia: Hunting for the Ghost Once More

1999

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“…Miall (1987) proposed that individual emotions offer structures for the meaning of the text as a whole that a person is experiencing (through reading) and trying to interpret. Also emotion-related individual differences (e.g ., the absorption trait) have been related to the interpretation and appreciation of poetic texts (Glicksohn, Tsur, & Goodblatt, 1991 Emotion, Metaphor, and the Creative Process can be relevant to creativity when the audience confronts a new work and must comprehend it. Creativity, as a social phenomenon, can be viewed as existing at the interface between an audience and a creator's work.…”

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Emotion, Metaphor, and the Creative Process

Lubart

Getz²

1997

Creativity Research Journal

139

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“…Will higher Absorption entail more differentiation and more integration (Hunt’s view, I believe), or less differentiation and less integration (when high Absorption is viewed as a syncretic experience, indicated by the close relationship with synaesthesia; Glicksohn, Salinger, & Roychman, 1992 ; Roche & McConkey, 1990 ; Terhune, 2009 )? One could argue either way, depending on one’s interpretation of Absorption, and especially given the notion that individuals scoring high on Absorption can appreciate more complexity in what those scoring low on Absorption might view as boring and monotonous; Glicksohn, Tsur, & Goodblatt, 1991 ). The data I will present will hopefully be informative here.…”

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Patterns of Occurrence of Four States of Consciousness as a Function of Trait Absorption

Glicksohn¹

2019

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Four states of consciousness are considered here: the hypnagogic state (the transitional state between waking and sleeping); the hypnopompic state (the transitional state between sleeping and waking); lucid dreaming (insight to the fact that one is currently dreaming); and the out-of-the-body experience (perceiving the world from a location outside the physical body). There are different patterns of occurrence of experience with these states of consciousness, and the present data set deriving from a cross-sectional study (a convenience sample comprising 251 participants who had completed a battery of questionnaires, as reported in Glicksohn & Barrett, 2003), enables one to plot these configurations. There are two contrasting positions on the relationship that trait Absorption will bear on the pattern of occurrence of these different profiles of subjective experience, or configuration of profiles of states. One is that higher Absorption will entail more differentiation among these states of consciousness; the other is that higher Absorption will entail less differentiation among these states. Both positions find support in the present data set: higher Absorption entails more differentiation as one moves from those respondents scoring slightly lower than the median to those scoring slightly higher than the median on Absorption, whereas very high Absorption entails less differentiation relative to very low Absorption.

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Absorption and Trance-Inductive Poetry

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Cognitive Dedifferentiation in Eidetics and Synaesthesia: Hunting for the Ghost Once More

Cognitive Dedifferentiation in Eidetics and Synaesthesia: Hunting for the Ghost Once More

Emotion, Metaphor, and the Creative Process

Patterns of Occurrence of Four States of Consciousness as a Function of Trait Absorption

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