Trance, Art and Creativity

John Curtis Gowan
Buffalo: Privately Printed for the Creative Education Foundation, 1975.
First Edition.

23cm x 15cm. xxvi, 448 pages. Lettered wrappers.

A Psychological Analysis of the Relationship between the Individual Ego and the Numinous Element in Three Modes: Prototaxic, Parataxic, and Syntaxic. Discusses archetypes, art, biofeedback, collective unconscious, dissociation, dream, drug effects, ecstasy, glossolalia, hallucination, hypnosis, meditation, myth, mysticism, parapsychology, peak experience, ritual, self-actualization, tantra, trance, and more. John Curtis Gowan (1912-1986) was a Harvard graduate (starting his undergraduate degree at 17) who worked extensively in educational psychology with gifted children and, inspired by Aldous Huxley, with psychedelics and the endeavours of human creativity.

Very minor soiling and insect damage to wrappers. Previous owner’s signature. Very Good Condition.

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