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by Joseph Chilton Pearce


  18 Codex Bezae. This story fits in with Jesus' entire

  attitude toward logical thinking (law) and is probably genuine. (66)

  p. 50.

  18 loose on earth. The term was a legal one in current

  usage. Jesus' use of it encompasses its mundane sense in a larger

  ontological framework. (72) Matthew 16:20, 18:18, Mark 4:24-25.

  CHAPTER 2 VALVES AND SOLVENTS

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  19 Bruner: left-hand. (9).

  19 Polanyi: tacit-primary. (81) p. 12, 13, 26, etc.

  20 "autistic." The word has a variety of uses but Peter McKellar's

  explanation led me to its adoption for the "shadow side" of

  thinking. It has negative connotations, but not so many as the term

  "unconscious."

  20 Polanyi: child-thinking. (81) p. 19.

  24 Selye: hypnagogic. (85) p. 47.

  25 Polanyi: beauty + discovery. (81) p. 37, 38.

  26 Tillich: hidden content. (97) p. 267.

  30 Laing. (56) p. 114, 115.

  30 Smythies. (16) p. 70.

  31 Whitehead: foolishness. (103) p. 49.

  31 Piaget: autistic = magic. (76) p. 152, 168. (77)

  p. 204, 244. (78) p. 302, 303.

  32 Ars Antiqua-Nova. 14th century artists called themselves the

  New Artists, and the preceding period the Antique artists.

  33 Hoffer-Osmond. (41) p. 108. Also see: Tart's book,

  Altered States of Consciousness, is a work of considerable

  importance, but one I found too late for inclusion. (91).

  33 Cohen: "LSD and intent of investigators." Creativity

  can be sponsored by psychedelics, but is dependent,

  as all such activity, on the intent of all concerned.

  As Harman, et at., report, the expectations and in-

  tent determine the characteristics of the experience.

  Therapeutic concerns breed personal problems as

  the center of the experience. "Kick-seeking" breeds

  euphoria and visions. Creative problem solving can

  likewise be induced by programming the experience

  around elimination of distractions, attention to de-

  tail, confidence in abilities, and lack of hypercrit-

  icisms. (16) p. 84. Also see: (91) p. 446--447.

  34 Bruner: colors. (10).

  35 Solley-Murphy: sea of data. (88) p. 178.

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  35 Huxley: valves. (43) p. 22, 23.

  36 Sherwood: universal percept. (16) p. 97. Also see:

  Joe Kamiya's studies on sponsoring alpha-wave pro-

  duction in subjects. (91) p. 507. Kasamatsu and

  Kirai's studies of Zen meditation. (97) chapter 33.

  36 Cohen: unsanity. If awareness turns back on the

  fundamental electrochemical activity that constitutes

  perception and thinking, a basic-unity experience

  would be inevitable (Cohen's argument). On the

  other hand, the "undoing" of the psychic structure

  (deautomization) permits increased detail and sen-

  sation, possibly giving awareness of new dimensions

  of the total stimulus array. (16) p. 97. Also see:

  Deikman's arguments, pro and con. (91) p. 39.

  36 Carington: field of consciousness. (13) p. 175,

  176, 179, 202, etc.

  37 Whitehead: no simple location. (103) p. 74.

  37 Bruner: sensory deprivation. (10). Also see: Zu-

  bek's anthology of research on sensory deprivation,

  an exhaustive survey that points up how overdrawn

  and possibly atypical my example was (107). How-

  ever, all the phenomena of my example are com-

  mon, though not often occurring completely at one

  time. Above all, as Rossi points out, the manner in

  which the research questions are formulated influ-

  ences the design of the research and the interpreta-

  tion of the results. This observation verifies the

  central thesis of my entire book. (107) p. 42.

  Among conclusions of research so far, are: a lack of

  variability of sensory data is compensated for by in-

  ternal syntheses to give variety of sensory experience.

  Deprivation of one sensory mode will be compen-

  sated for by the other sensory modes (a certain level

  of synesthesia, mixing of sensory modes, is always

  present). (107) p. 201. Schultz (1965) refers to

  "sensoristasis," the organism's attempt to maintain an

  optimal range of sensory variation; restriction of

  sensory intake lowers sensory thresholds and the

  system tries to maintain its norm or balance of

  senses. (107) p. 242.

  38 McKellar: no mental experience. (64) p. 73.

  42 Vasilieve: mustard plaster. The Russians have also

  done extensive research on "non-visual" seeing, first

  detected in work with the blind, and now appar-

  ently being fostered and developed along startling

  lines. (100).

  42 Jung: sun-phallus. (46) p. 152.

  43 Stace: Koestler. (90) chapter 9.

  46 Livingston: commitment. (62).

  CHAPTER 3 BLUEPRINTS AND VIEWPOINTS

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  49 feral children. (32). Also see: "Wolf Children of

  India," American Journal of Psychology, XXXVIII,

  1927; "More about Wolf Children of India," Amer-

  ican Journal of Psychology, XLII, 1931.

  50 Jung: Tabula-rasa. (48) p. 267.

  50 Jung: peeling the unconscious. (46) p. 152.

  51 Langer: miscarry of language. (57) p. 110.

  51 Bruner: transformation. (11) p. 109.

  52 Smythies: child-world hallucination. (16) p. 70.

  Also see: Deikman writes that the studies of Werner,

  von Senden and Shapiro suggest that development

  from infancy to adulthood is bought at the price of

  some stimuli and stimulus qualities and exclusion

  of others. Reversal of this process, regression, thus

  might release aspects of reality otherwise unavail-

  able (a point dwelt on later in my book). (91)

  p. 39.

  52 Bracken: German theory. See Phillipp Lersch on

  "levels of the mind." (8) p. 212.

  53 James Old: rats. Stimulus of this area of the human

  brain underlies much of the research reported on by

  Tart (91), and has more recently been successfully

  produced non-psychedelically by Drs. Masters and

  Houston (The New York Times, August 26; 1970,

  p. 35). (73).

  54 Blake: poem. Auguries of Innocence. (5).

  54 Blake: garden -- mind. Marginalia to Reynolds.

  (5) p. 453.

  54 Gesell: recovery by Kamala. Chronology. (32) p.

  103-7.

  54 Gesell: mold. (32) p. 67.

  55 Erickson. (69) p. 71, 72.

  55 Lévy Bruhl. (44) p. 16.

  55 Jensen. (44) p. 14.

  56 Whorf: agreement. (104) p. 213-214.

  57 Langer: speech not survival. (57) p. 106, 113.

  57 Bruner: father to man. (9) p. 7.

  58 Hall: roots of culture. (36) p. 177.

  58 Whitehead: fundamental assumptions. (103) p. 49.

  58 Carington: fact not law. (13) p. 198.

  59 Gibson: visual field. (36) p. 62.

  59 Hall: synthetic vision. (36) p. 65

  59 Hall: culture = world. (36) p. 65.

  59 Cohen: world not as seen. (16) p. 45.

  60 Bruner: senses not one-way street. (9) p. 6.

  61 Hail: vision = transaction. (36) p. 75.

  CHAPTER 4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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  63 de B
ono. (21) p. 20f.

  64 Polanyi: Paul. (80) p. 44.

  64 Russell. (83) p. 180.

  64 Hamilton: quaternions. (60) p. 332, 335.

  65 Toynbee. (60) p. 114.

  65 Einstein: illumination. (1) p. 236.

  66 Kazantzakis. Introduction. (50).

  67 Augustine. (60) p. 326, 327

  67 Wesley. (60) p. 327.

  69 Teilhard: take apart. (94) p. 110.

  70 Piaget. (76) p. 204.

  71 James: overbelief. (60) p. 327.

  71 Poincaré: hooked atoms. References to Poincaré's

  insights occur continually throughout all studies of

  the creative act. (64) p. 116.

  72 Bruner: categorizing. (9) p. 20.

  72 Bruner: outline of creativity. (9) p. 23, 25.

  73 Eliade: Yoga. (24) p. 10.

  74 Hunt: occult. (42) p. 55.

  75 Kekule's imagery. Selye, Langer, and many others

  have referred to this intriguing case. (64) p. 121.

  77 Cohen: analysts. (16) p. 182.

  77 Kline: hypnotism. (51). Also see: Kline's collection

  of reports concerning the "Bridey Murphy" hoax.

  And throughout Tart's study, the interaction of

  subject and hypnotist is clearly established; and, in

  the case of mutual hypnosis this unconscious rap-

  port takes on profound dimensions. (91).

  78 Yeats: automatic writing. (25) p. 220.

  78 Laski: Martin. The remarks concerning Martin are

  in no way to be considered disparaging. That his

  work is a clear example of overbelief construction

  and metanoia doesn't diminish its impressive quality

  and deep possibility. (60) p. 328. Also see: Martin's

  own work. (59).

  81 Laski: "who can doubt." (60) p. 330.

  CHAPTER 5 MIRROR TO MIRROR

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  84 Singer: fluid Irontiers. (86) p. 392.

  84 Singer: mind-nature. (86) p. 336.

  84 Bruner: science not discovery. (10) p. 7.

  84 Weaver: human enterprise. (101) p. 44.

  84 Bronowski: science as art. (94) p. 249.

  84 Teilhard: discovery-creation. (94) p. 249.

  86 kidney transplant. Address over WAMC (Albany

  Medical College), Eastern Education Radio.

  86 Popper: episteme is gone. (101) p. 51.

  87 Weaver: foundations. (101) p. 51.

  87 Whitehead: science = rational o] God. (103) p.

  13-16.

  87 Whitehead: basic stuff. (103) p. 17.

  88 Whitehead: simple locations. (103) p. 52-57.

  89 McKellar: certainty systems. (64) p. 168.

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  89 Boring: ego in controversy. (7) p. 6.

  89 MeKellar: concepts = things. (64) p. 176.

  90 Bruner: engineered tinkering. (9) p. 162.

  90 Polanyi: metanoia. (79) p. 151.

  90 Polanyi: no systematic. (79) p. 159.

  90 Polanyi: self-modifying. (79) p. 151.

  91 hardness of heart. (72) Mark 6:5, 6. Matthew

  13:58.

  91 Polanyi: intellectual passions. (79) p. 159.

  91 Bernard: ideas given form. (41) p. 6.

  92 Bruner: empty categories. This list could be ex-

  tended to book form. (10)p. 14.

  93 Bode's Law. (86) p. 238.

  93 Bohme: experience = observation. (6) p. 98.

  93 Pauli: intuition and attention. (75) p. 15.

  93 Polanyi: discovery is irreversible. (79) p. 123.

  94 G. Feinberg: Maxwell and Einstein. (27).

  95 Ladriere: mysterious connection. (54) p. 74.

  95 Pauli: percept and concept. (75) p. 152.

  95 Bohm: no eternal forms. (6) p. 156.

  95 Bohm: necessary relations. (6) p. 156.

  96 Teilhard: change of state. (94) p. 180.

  96 Bohm: history. (6) p. 99.

  96 atomic idea. In his section on Greek philosophy,

  Will Durant gave a splendid description of the

  atomic notion and suggests an even greater antiquity

  for it (Life of Greece, 1939). (86) p. 99.

  97 Bohm: evidence for atoms. (6) p. 99.

  97 Conant: better theory. (85) p. 280.

  98 Bohm: universe not based on atoms. (6) p. 164.

  98 G. Feinberg: basic stuff is known. (27).

  98 Bohm: sub quantum. (6) p. 156.

  99 Teilhard: ultimate energy. (94) p. 250.

  99 Bohm: new sources. (6) p. 164.

  100 Planck: contradiction = progress. (85) p. 280.

  101 Teilhard: radical energies. (94). p. 250.

  101 Teilhard: thought perleas. (94) p. 176.

  102 Teilhard: psyche-soma. (94) p. 176.

  CHAPTER 6 FIRE-BURN

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  104 L. Feinberg. (28).

  106 Grosvenors: Ceylon. (34).

  108 Greek walkers. Dr. Krechmal writes of the sighing

  of the trance state, a typical characteristic. (53).

  109 hook-swingers. (52).

  110 Manasseh. (17) p. 441.

  112 Neumann: precedence of inner. (71) p. 294.

  112 Jesus -- hate world. (72) Mark 12:26.

  113 hand to plow. (72) Luke 9:62, Mark 6:48, 49.

  113 Jung: rational, irrational. (47) p. 48.

  113 Bruner: late. (9) p. 160.

  114 Tillich: ground of being. As well as underlying

  thesis in all of his work. (97) p. 156. (96) p. 297-

  299.

  CHAPTER 7 BEHOLD AND BECOME

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  116 Hilgard. (40).

  116 Jung: hypnotized patient. (48) p. 219.

  118 Hilgard: fantasy play. (40) p. 382.

  119 Hilgard: flexible role. (40) p. 382.

  120 Belo: trance. (2).

  120 Hilgard: trance and child. (40) p. 388.

  120 Belo: child trance dancers. (2) p. 4.

  121 Hilgard: parent role of hypnotist. (40) p. 24, 25.

  121 Hilgard: loss of hypnotic susceptibility. The mystery

  is not why some people can achieve deep trance but

  why most people are not able to do so. Hilgard has

  made strides toward this problem. (40) p. 382. Also

  see: Ronald Shot on hypnosis and reality-orienta-

  tion. (91) p. 233-250.

  122 Hilgard: transference. (40) p. 386.

  123 Meares -- tooth extraction. Medical Journal of Aus-

  tralia, McKay, June 1963. (40) p. 126, 127.

  124 Hilgard: role-playing. More on this in reference to

  don Juan. (40) p. 391. Also see: Tart explores mu-

  tual hypnosis which expands the possibilities of the

  state far beyond anything to date. (91) p. 293.

  125 Aborigine. (3) p. 29, 43, 57, 64, 66, etc.

  127 Lévi-Strauss: intellectual. (61) p. 89, 268.

  127 Lévi-Strauss: aborigine isolation (61) p. 89.

  128 Murdock: stupidity and primitive. (68) p. 26, 41.

  Also see: Spencer and Gillen offer an exhaustive

  study of central Australian natives, but view their

  subjects from a 19th century white man's chauvin-

  ism. Again we have, "The idea of making any kind

  of clothing . . . appears (not to have) entered the

  native mind." (89) p. 16.

  128 16,000 years of aborigine development. (70).

  129 Berndt: impressed-surprised. (3) p. 6. Also see:

  Spencer and Gillen devote a large segment of their

  study to the ceremonies and rituals of the Arunta,

  since these constitute a major portion of the native

  culture. (89).

  129 Berndt: aborigine genius. (3) p. 6.

  130 camel -- needle's eye. (72) Matthew 19:24.

  132 don Juan and Carlos. ( 14 ).

  136 early American cultures. (59, 67, 74).

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bsp; 139 don Juan -- looking breathlessly. (14) p. 137. Also

  see: Tart's work in mutual hypnosis has created non-

  ordinary reality states every bit as strong and unique

  as the Mescalito ones, and, since shared, offer an ex-

  citing possibility. (91).

  139 don Juan -- paths can kill. (14) p. 118.

  CHAPTER 8 MYTHOS AND LOGOS

  143 Langer: new function. (58) p. 30.

  143 Bitterman. (4).

  144 Langer: Fliiger. (58) p. 105.

  145 Langer: fallure of psychology. My too late dis-

  covery of Dr. Charles Tart's remarkable anthology

  (91) must enter as this belated qualification to my

  complaint about psychology. Some extremely im-

  portant and exciting work is surely emerging, and

  there are simply no limits in sight for the possi-

  bilities. (58) p. 5.

  145 Langer: zoological status. (58) p. 111.

  145 Langer: culture-symbol. (58) p. 98.

  145 Bruner: personality-myth. (9) p. 36.

  145 Bruner: clamor of identity. (9) p. 38.

  145 Bruner: human possibility. (9) p. 150.

  145 Bruner: acting-believing. (9) p. 132.

  145 Frye: alazon-eiron. (31) p. 39, 40.

  146 Langer: web of ideas. (58) p. 147.

  146 Langer: imagining reality. (58) p. 150.

  146 Jung: archetypal imagery. (45) p. 10.

  147 Langer: loss to science. (58) p. 107.

  147 Langer: science-culture. (58) p. 107.

  147 Langer: feeling-experience. (58) p. 11.

  147 Langer: below the limen. (58) p. 14.

  147 Langer: mental acts. (58) p. 21.

  147 Langer: psychology and physiology. (58) p. 11.

  148 Langer: vast change. (58) p. 140.

  148 Langer: world image. (58) p. 167.

  148 Langer: novel ideas. (58) p. 182.

  148 Teilhard: creative imagination. (92) p. 115.

  149 Eliade: freedom to intervene. (23) p. 160.

  149 priest before tree. (12) p. 92.

  149 Jung: unbearable history. See section, "The Self."

  (45).

  149 Jung: God image and projection. (52) p. 56.

  153 Eisenbud: parapsychology. My references to Eisen-

  bud are only general, summarizing from the last sec-

  tion of his study. It may be that Eisenbud's own

  emotional and psychological needs suspended his

  critical judgment, and that he was duped by Serios,

  as critics claim. I find the evidence of this incon-

  clusive, and know enough parallel phenomena to

 

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