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CONTENTS

PREFACE vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES xxi
INTRODUCTION I
0.1 THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM 1
0.2 CONTINGENCY 4
0.3 PROSPECTUS 11
1. THE LITERATURE 12
1.1 PARASENSORY EXPERIENCES 12
1.2 THE COLLECTIVE PRECONSCIOUS 27
1.21 Cognitive Modes of Experiencing 31
1.22 Archetypes of the Collective Preconscious 34
1.3 PSYCHEDELIA 38
1.4 DEVELOPMENT TOWARD SELF ACTUALIZATION 41

2 THE ERIKSON-PAIGET-GOWAN THEORY OF

PERIODIC DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES 48
2.1 CREATIVITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGE THEORY 48
2.2 ESCALATION AND DYSPLASIA 60
2.21 Succession 62
2.22 Discontinuity 64
2.23 Emergence 64
2.24 Differentiation 66
Fixation 66
Metamorphosis 66

2.25 Integration ......................... 67

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2.3 THE DEVELOPMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS
OF CREATIVITY 69

2.31 Creativity as the Outcome of the Proper

Functioning of Development 69

2.32 Oedipal Origins: Magic Nightmare or

Creative Fantasy 71
2.33 Third Column Characteristics of Creativity 72
2.34 Creativity and Auxiliary Variables 74

2.35 Creativity in Individuals of Less than Perfect

Mental Health 76
2.36 Creativity as Evolutionary Development 79
2.4 THE PRECONSCIOUS 80
2.41 Dreams and Creativity 85
2.42 Dreams and Science 86

2.43 A Theory About the Impersonal Collective

Preconscious 89
2.44 Summary 95
3 THE PSYCHEDELIC STAGE 96
3.1 PSYCHEDELIA AS A DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE:
IMPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY 96
3.11 The Psychedelic Experience 96
3.12 The Psychic and the Psychedelic 101
3.13 The Normal and the Psychedelic 104
3.14 Creativity and Psychedelia 106
Psychedelic Drugs and Creativity 106
The Role of ESP 107
3.1.5 Stage Characteristics of Psychedelia 110
3.2 NATURAL PSYCHEDELIA 113
3.3 THE STIMULATION OF PSYCHEDELIA:
TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 119
3.4 THE MYSTIC EXPERIENCE 127
3.5 THE GENTLING OF THE PRECONSCIOUS 134

4 THE MEASUREMENT OF SELF ACTUALIZATION

AND PSYCHEDELIA 140

4.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF
HIGHER DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES . 140

4.2 SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE ON MEASUREMENT
INSTRUMENTS INCLUDING THE PERSONAL
ORIENTATION INVENTORY 143
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4.21 The Personality Orientation Inventory 143
4.22 Other Measures of Self -Actualization 154
4.3 THE NORTHRIDGE DEVELOPMENTAL SCALE 158
5 DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPLASIA 164
5.1 THE EXISTENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF
DYSPLASIA 164
Preamble 164
Postulates about Dysplasia 166
Some Possible Exceptions and their Significance . . 168
In Summary 171
5.2 THE IVY LEAGUE DYSPLASIA STUDY 172
The Survey Categories 173
Statistical Results 182
Summary 182
5.3 STASIS IN THE HIGHER STAGES 184
5.4 SOME COMMENTS AND SPECULATIONS 185
6 DEVELOPMENTAL FORCING 187
6.1 SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENTAL FORCING:
SCHIZOPHRENIA 187
6.2 POSSESSION 193
6.3 HYPNOSIS 198
6.4 PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS 201
6.5 ALPHA WAVE BIOFEEDBACK 209
The Brain, Its Electrical Activity, Alpha
Waves and Biofeedback 209
6.6 RELIGIOUS, PENTACOSTAL AND GROUP PEAK
EXPERIENCES 214
6.7 CRITIQUE 214
Meditation compared with Developmental
Forcing 215
7 THE PROCESS GOAL OF SELF ACTUALIZATION 218
7.1 SELF ACTUALIZATION: CONSCIOUSNESS AND
ITS DEVELOPMENT 218
7.11 Self Actualization 218
7.12 Consciousness and its Development 220
Tendency to Form 220

Tendency toward altered states ............. 220
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Tendency toward higher integration 221
Whole, a developmental process 221
7.13 Maslow's Views 221
7.2 THE HIGHEST STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS 224
7.21 Illumination: The Eighth Stage 224
7.22 High Levels of Arrest 233
7.23 Higher Entities 234
7.3 SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
PSYCHEDELIC FUNCTION 235
7.31 Meditation 235
7.32 Alpha Wave Training and its Implications 237
7.33 Programming the Preconscious 239
7.34 Sensory Deprivation 241
7.35 Other Methods 241
7.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 242
7.41 The Search for a Compatible Construct 242
7.42 Intimations 246
7.43 Epilogue 248
BIBLIOGRAPHY 253

APPENDIX ............................... 275
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

I. ERIKSON- PIAGET -GOWAN PERIODIC
DEVELOPMENT STAGES 51
11. GROWTH AND DIFFUSION OF THE EGO DURING
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES 57
111. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ERIKSONIAN STAGES 59
IV. THE RELATION OF THE EGO TO THE
PERCEPTUAL FIELD 61
V. THE COMPONENTS OF ESCALATION 63
VI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRECONSCIOUS . . . . . 83
VII. METHOD OF TELEPATHIC TRANSMISSION 93
VIII. MENTAL SICKNESS AND HEALTH IN RELATION
TO CONSCIOUSNESS 126
IX. MINITASKS OF THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH
COGNITIVE STAGES 160
X. BASIC STATISTICS AND CRITICAL RATIO FOR
VARIOUS GROUPS OF STUDENTS ON
NORTHRIDGE DEVELOPMENTAL SCALE 162
XI. PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
HIGHER DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES 169
XII. STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF THE IVY
LEAGUE RESPONDERS STUDY 183

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