The Creative Trance
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The Creative Trance

Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process

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The Creative Trance

Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process

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In those moments when focus on creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in a creative trance. This psychologically significant altered state of consciousness is inherent in everyone. It can take the form of daydreams generating scientific or creative ideas, hyperfocus in sports, visualizations that impact entire civilizations, life-changing audience experiences, or meditations for self-transformation that may access states beyond trance, becoming gateways to transcendence. Artist and psychologist Tobi Zausner shows how creative trance not only operates in scientific inventions and works of art in all media, but is also important in creating and recreating the self. Drawing on insights from cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology and post-materialist psychology, this book investigates the diversity of the creative trance ranging from non-industrial societies to digital urban life, and its presence in people from all backgrounds and abilities. Finally, Zausner investigates the future of trance in our rapidly changing world.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781108862400
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Applied Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: The Pervasive State of Trance
  9. Chapter 1 The Multifaceted Creative Trance
  10. Chapter 2 Consciousness and Creativity Theory in the Creative Trance
  11. Chapter 3 Unconscious Origins of the Creative Trance
  12. Chapter 4 Empathy and Dissociation in the Creative Trance
  13. Chapter 5 Evolution, Altered States, and the Creative Trance
  14. Chapter 6 The Creative Trance and the Brain
  15. Chapter 7 Dynamics of the Creative Trance
  16. Chapter 8 Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit Disorder, and the Creative Trance
  17. Chapter 9 Illness and Transformation in the Creative Trance
  18. Chapter 10 Different Abilities and the Creative Trance
  19. Chapter 11 Dementia and the Creative Trance
  20. Chapter 12 Altered States of a Lifesaving Creative Trance
  21. References
  22. Index