AESTHETICS, CREATIVITY, AND MYSTICISM: AN INVESTIGATION OF THREE MODES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
This essay explores the universal nature of aesthetic, creative, and mystical experience, tracing some essential interrelations among the three. Enlarging upon the work of anthropologist Jacques Maquet, I speculate that "sensory fixedness" is both necessary and sufficient to achieve aesthetic experi...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 857 - 880 |
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Dec2019
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