TRANCE, ART, AND CREATIVITY

A Psychological Analysis of the Relationship Between the Individual Ego and the Numinous Element in Three Modes: Prototaxic, Parataxic, and Syntaxic

Keywords: archetype, art, biofeedback, collective unconscious, creativity, dissociation, dream, drug effects, ecstasy, ESP, glossolalia, hallucination, hypnosis, meditation, myth, mysticism, numinous element, parapsychology, peak experience, psychic, ritual, self-actualization, tantra, trance.
 
 

JOHN CURTIS GOWAN

California State University

Northridge, California
 
 

Colleague, Creative Education Foundation

State University College, Buffalo, N.Y.

Printed for the Creative Education Foundation

as a text for the 21st Annual Creative Problem

Solving Institute, Buffalo, N.Y. June, 1975.

Copyright, 1975 by John Curtis Gowan
9030 Darby Ave. Northridge, Calif. 91324
Quotations under 500 words are authorized with credit.
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This book is dedicated to the memory of

E. J. THOMPSON

whose enterprise secured the funds

required to print it.

The electronic publishing of this book was made possible by the generosity of

JANE THOMPSON GOWAN

The copyright acknowledgements beginning on page iii

are hereby made an official part of this page.