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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...

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Published in:Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 857 - 880
Main Author: Frishkopf, Michael
Format: Article
Published: Open Library of Humanities Dec2019
Subjects:
Consciousness
Aesthetic experience
Mysticism
Aesthetics
Creative ability
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