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
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E. J. THOMPSON
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