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As I walk the woods, I can feel that at
any given moment, two worlds are surrounding me: besides the visible world,
there is the invisible world made of energies, mysteries, information, and
intelligence. This other, hidden world is constantly communicating with us, or
at least is trying to. When we walk away from the many noises and
distractions we are usually creating, it brings us inspiration, ideas, stories
and every aid we need in order not only to survive, but to fulfill our Destiny.
Many mystics, even in
modern times, claim to be familiar with such an invisible network we humans can
tap into. (…) Loren McIntyre, the iconic National Geographic explorer and
writer recalls an incident when he was lost in Amazon region and ended up living
with an uncontacted tribe for months. Even though they could not speak each
other’s languages, he became so immersed in their – entirely different –
culture that he founds access to their ‘second language’, a type of telepathy
which he referred to as beaming (Popescu, 1991). Biologist Rupert Sheldrake has
collected over five thousand case histories to illustrate this type of
instinctual, telephatic communication. He thinks of this as part of our
evolutionary heritage, which used to aid our survival and therefore works best
in life-and-death, emergency or distress situations involving intense emotions (Sheldrahe,
2004).
[HUNTER et al.,
2019: 141 e 143]
The
concept of a liminal or thin mind appears in the words of Frederic Myers
and William James (Thalbourne, 1999) and more recently in the writings of
Freud, Lewin and others (Hartmann, Harrison, & Zborowski, 2001). In
academic parapsychology, it forms part of Bergson’s (1913) filter theory
of ESP. Recently, liminality is explored in research employing the psycometric
measures Transliminality (Lange, Thalbourne, Houran, & Storms, 2000), Boundary
thinness (Hartmann, 1991) and related measures (Thalbourne & Maltby, 2008).
Liminality
is experienced as psychological sensitivity; a fluidity of thoughts and feelings, a tendency to see agency and causality, and a heightened tendency
toward experiencing ExE, including paranormal (Thalbourne, 2009), transpersonal
and mystical experiences (Thalbourne & Delin, 1999). At its heart,
liminality incorporates the transpersonal notion of both/and in addition to
the contradictions and combinations of
coherent and incoherent (paradoxical) moments of thought that are also present in the theorizing of Deleuze, Gendlin and Bion with regard to meaning making,
pre-formed thoughts and insights (Hunt, 2014). Liminality is a core component in
the recipe for all forms of ExE (…).
[HUNTER et al., 2019: 112-113]
LIVRO:
Jack HUNTER et al.. 2019. Greening the Paranormal - Exploring the ecology of extraordinary experience. USA/London: August Night Press.
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