| Titel: | Relations between the Phenomena of Religious Mysticism (Altered States of Consciousness) and the Psychology of Thought: A Cognitive Psychology of States of Consciousness and the Necessity of Subjective States for Cognitive Theory |
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| Autor: | Hunt, HT |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Perceptual and Motor Skills |
| Jahr: | 1985 |
| Band: | 61 |
| Heft: | 3, Pt 1 |
| Seiten: | 911-961 |
| Sprache: | English; englisch |
| Abstract: | Considers various apparent drawbacks and extensions of a cognitive approach to mystical and altered-state experience as directly exteriorizing the normally masked processes of semantics or felt meaning. The approach was previously developed by the author (see PA, Vols 68:9623 and 72:431) and by the author and C. M. Chefurka (see record 1976-27280-001). It is suggested that "turning around on the schemata" as the basis for recombinatory symbolic operations would be based on the cross-modal or synesthetic embodiment of the geometric and luminosity patterns afforded by the imaginal disassembling and reuse of visual-spatial perceptual microgenesis. Accordingly the more orthodox accounts of synesthesias and geometric imagery as primitive or nonsymbolic are addressed and rejected. The cognitive-introspectionist reinterpretation of the phenomena of altered states in turn leads to a new understanding of ordinary insight, body-percept transformations in schizophrenia and yoga chakra experience, and the void experience of classical mysticism. It is contended that the juxtaposition of the psychology of thought and of altered states of consciousness is mutually and uniquely illuminating to both concerns. (4 p ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved); (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved) |