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Author: Tobi Zausner
In those moments when focus on creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in a creative trance. This psychologically significant altered state of consciousness is inherent in everyone. It can take the form of daydreams generating scientific or creative ideas, hyperfocus in sports, visualizations that impact entire civilizations, life-changing audience experiences, or meditations for self-transformation that may access states beyond trance, becoming gateways to transcendence. Artist and psychologist Tobi Zausner shows how creative trance not only operates in scientific inventions and works of art in all media, but is also important in creating and recreating the self. Drawing on insights from cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology and post-materialist psychology, this book investigates the diversity of the creative trance ranging from non-industrial societies to digital urban life, and its presence in people from all backgrounds and abilities. Finally, Zausner investigates the future of trance in our rapidly changing world.
The Creative Trance 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 The Multifaceted Creative Trance
Multiple Aspects of the Creative Trance
Creativity and the Creative Trance
Definitions of Trance
Trance Induction before Creativity
Dreaming the Creative Trance: Its Manifestation in Sleep and Associated States
The Creative Trance: Its Contents, Time Frames, and Paradox
Multiple Facets of the Creative Trance: Its Variation across and within Domains
Multiple Facets of the Creative Trance: Reveries, Planning, and Metaphysical States
The Audience Creative Trance: Receptive and Unique
The Quantified Audience Creative Trance: Resonance, Entrainment, and Synchronization
The Quantified Audience Creative Trance: Resonance and Synchronization with Performers
Collective Effervescence and the Audience/Participant Communal Creative Trance
The Audience Creative Trance: The Stendhal Syndrome
The Audience Creative Trance: Sacred and Healing
Chapter 2 Consciousness and Creativity Theory in the Creative Trance
Consciousness, Altered States of Consciousness, and the Creative Trance
Altered States of Consciousness
The Altered State of Relinquishing Control in the Creative Trance
Multiple Depths of a Creative Trance: The Lighter States
Multiple Depths of a Creative Trance: The Medium States
Multiple Depths of a Creative Trance: Deeper States
Absorption and the Depths of a Creative Trance
Everyday Creativity and the Creative Trance
The Everyday Creative Trance as a Culturally Mediated Experience
Theories of Creativity and the Creative Trance: Habitual Responses and Divergent Thinking
Theories of Creativity and the Creative Trance: Five Factor Model and Openness
Theories of Creativity and the Creative Trance: Its Levels and Sudden Insights
The Creative Trance as a Pivot to Transformation
The Creative Trance: Its Clinical and Social Aspects and Its Capacity for Transcendence
The Shared Creative Trance: Enjoyment, Synchronization, and Cultural Transmission
The Shared Creative Trance: Neural Synchronization and Extended Consciousness
Chapter 3 Unconscious Origins of the Creative Trance
The Unconscious Mind
The Unconscious Mind: Its History and Structures
The Cognitive Unconscious: Its Processes and Connection to Creativity
Implicit Motor Memory: Painting without Looking
The Unconscious Mind: A Creative Dialectic in the Creative Trance
The Cognitive Unconscious: Multiple Variables and Parallel Processing
The Unconscious Mind: Illusions of Conscious Control and Free Will
The Unconscious Mind: Illusions of Control and Responsibility
Acquiescing to Unconscious Control in the Creative Trance
Difficulties with Conscious and Unconscious Control in the Creative Trance
The Unconscious, the Creative Trance, and Awareness without Volition
Projective Identification and an Unconscious Hierarchy of Power
The Parts Work of Ego State Therapy
Chapter 4 Empathy and Dissociation in the Creative Trance
Empathy: The Empathic Trance and Universal Connections
Empathic Projection across Creative Domains
Empathic Projection in Acting and Sports
The Creative Trance and Empathic Intimacy
Structure and the Creative Trance: Delineation and Rules
Structure and the Creative Trance: Preferences and Habitual Behaviors
Dissociation and Its Definitions
The Creative Trance and Dissociation
Dissociation and Inspiration in the Creative Trance
Creativity without Continuous Inspiration
Dissociation and the Elevation of Consciousness
Dissociative Trance Disorder: A Numinous Cultural Experience
Dissociation, Ritualized Possession, and the Dance Creative Trance
Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Paradoxical Union of Empathy and Dissociation
Chapter 5 Evolution, Altered States, and the Creative Trance
The Earliest Hominin Tools: Lomekwian Stone Tools from Kenya
Oldowan Stone Tools from Tanzania: The River-Worn Cobble and Possible Aesthetics
The Acheulean Handaxe: Aesthetic Choices, Increased Craftsmanship, and Works of Art
The Acheulean Handaxe: Early Hominins and Symbolic Communication
Figurative Art in the Lower Paleolithic: Carved Likenesses in the Art of Hominins
Lower Paleolithic Figurines: The Berekhat Ram and the Tan-Tan
Homo Sapiens and the Modern Creative Trance: Artifacts from Blombos Cave
Homo Sapiens and the Modern Creative Trance: Symbolism and Suggestions of Ritual
A Middle Stone Age Art Workshop at Blombos Cave
Paleolithic Shell Beads and Their Symbolism
Shells and the Symbolism of Everlasting Life
Engraved Ostrich Eggshells and Egg Symbolism
Two Paleolithic Stone Artifacts: Incised Flint Plaquettes
The Symbolism of the Paleolithic Plaquettes
Upper Paleolithic Art on the Walls of Caves: Skill and Depth of Meaning
Upper Paleolithic Cave Art: Imagery and Altered States
Upper Paleolithic Cave Art: Trance, Shamanism, and the Underworld
Upper Paleolithic Cave Art: Stone Irregularities, Object Recognition, and Imagery
Upper Paleolithic Sculpture: The Venus of Willendorf
The Venus of Willendorf: A Talismanic Figurine
Evolving Creative Achievements across Domains and Social Responsibility
Evolution of Social and Creative Change: The Ratchet Effect and External Storage Devices
Chapter 6 The Creative Trance and the Brain
Neuroscience: The Creative Trance and The Brain
Neuroscience and the Benefits of Creativity
Creativity and the Default Mode Network
The DMN, Openness to Experience, Exploration, and Dopamine
Creativity and the Salience Network, Divergent and Convergent Thinking
Brain Sites for Generation and Evaluation of Everyday Creativity
Brain Sites for Generation and Evaluation of Visual Art
Brain Sites for Generation and Evaluation of Poetry
Creativity and the Brain Hemispheres
Flashes of Insight in the Creative Trance
“Insightfuls” and “Analysts” in the Creative Trance
Patterns of Thought and Resting-State Brain Waves
Combining Insight and Analysis in the Creative Trance
Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Information Processing and Attentional States
The Interrupted Creative Trance
“Leaky” Sensory Gating and the Creative Trance
Synesthesia and the Creative Trance
Synesthetes as Creative Individuals
Grapheme-Color Synesthetes and Their Creative Trance
Synesthetic Brains: Greater Connectivity and the Capacity for Metaphor
Spontaneous Synesthesia versus Intentional/Metaphoric Synesthesia
Intentional/Metaphoric Synesthesia across Domains
Neuroscience of Meditation: Transcendent States and Beneficial Neuroplasticity
Multiple Modes of Meditation and Their Neural Signatures
Buddhist Meditation on the Four Jhanas
Meditations That Open to Transcendence
Chapter 7 Dynamics of the Creative Trance
Creative People and the Nonlinear Chaos of Creativity
Nonlinear Dynamics: Chaos Theory, Complexity Theory, and the Creative Trance
Chaos: Generating Creativity and the New
Unpredictability, Struggles, Risks, and Breakthrough Bifurcations
Attractors and Fractals
Attractors, Fractals, and Two Physicists
Dissipative Structures and Strange Attractors
Self-Organization and Emergence
The Butterfly Effect: Sensitivity to Initial Conditions
The Self-Organized Criticality, Punctuated Evolution, and the Creative Trance
Self-Organized Criticalities and Avalanche Behavior
Self-Organized Criticalities and the Pursuit of Excellence
Self-Organized Criticalities: Catharsis and the Creative Trance
Self-Organized Criticalities: Insight and the Creative Trance
A Negative Self-Organized Criticality and the Creative Trance
The Self-Organized Criticalities of Panic Attacks
Panic Attacks and the Energy States of Nonlinear Dynamics
Turning Panic Attacks into a Creative Chaos
Panic Attacks: Naming as Power and Rumpelstiltskin
Panic Attacks and the Creative Trance in Poetry and Visual Art
Emily Dickinson: The Functions of Poetry and Panic
Edvard Munch: Anxiety and an Image of Panic Worldwide
Creativity and the Creative Trance in a Nonlinear World
Chapter 8 Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit Disorder, and the Creative Trance
Neural Challenges and the Creative Trance
Dyslexia
Dyslexia, the Brain, Visualization, and Science
When Dyslexia Influences the Choice of Profession
Dyslexia and Visual Artists
Dyslexia, Trauma, and the Creative Trance
Dyslexia and the Musical Creative Trance
Eminent Authors with Dyslexia and the Writer’s Creative Trance
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Brain
Eminent People with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
How ADHD Structures the Creative Trance: States of Reverie and Fleeting Attention
How ADHD Structures the Creative Trance: Hyperfocus
How ADHD Structures the Creative Trance: Low Brain Arousal and Ambient Sound
Leonardo da Vinci: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, ADHD, and the World-Altering Creative Trance
Leonardo da Vinci: Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Leonardo da Vinci and the High Renaissance in Italian Art
Leonardo da Vinci and the Observer’s Creative Trance
The Observer’s Creative Trance as Inspiration for Originality
Leonardo da Vinci, ADHD, and the Creative Trance
Leonardo da Vinci, Tangential Thinking, Inspiration, and the Creative Trance
Leonardo da Vinci: Depression, Anxiety, Self-Image, and Resilience
Chapter 9 Illness and Transformation in the Creative Trance
The Antiquity and Prevalence of Healing through Creativity
The Creative Trance: Reducing Distress and Facilitating Self-Expression
The Creative Trance: Diminishing the Experience of Pain
The Creative Trance: Lessening Physical Pain across Domains
Expressive Arts Therapies and the Healing Creative Trance
Dance Therapy and the Healing Embodied Mutual Creative Trance
Birth of a New Self in the Healing Embodied Creative Trance
The Transforming Illness and the Creative Trance
Ethnic Origins, Healing, and the Creative Trance
Itchiku Kubota: Reinventing a Tradition of Japanese Textiles and Kimonos
Richard Yarde: African and African American Healing
Ernie Pepion: Native American Traditions and Advocacy for the Disabled
When the Creative Trance during Illness Reveals a Destiny in Art
Beethoven and Hearing Loss
Beethoven: Deafness as a Transforming Illness
Beethoven, Hearing Loss, and the Importance of the Creative Trance
Hearing Loss and the Creative Trance in Visual Artists
Using a Creative Trance to Heal the World: Greta Thunberg
The Final Illness and the Creative Trance: Jacqueline du Pré
The Final Illness and the Creative Trance: John Mallord William Turner
Chapter 10 Different Abilities and the Creative Trance
Overcoming the Impossible: Different Abilities and the Creative Trance
Dance Trance for the Differently Abled
Dance Trance and the Wheelchair
International Physically Integrated Dance and Theater Companies
The Immobile Dance Trance: Marissa Hamamoto
Wheelchair Dancing for Children: A Dance Trance of Transformation
Paralympic Athletes: A Sports Trance Extending to Achievement and Compassion
Paralympic Swimmers: Zorn-Hudson and Suzuki
Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby Athlete: Bob Lujano
Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby Team: Achievement and Compassion
Blind Visual Artists and the Creative Trance: Esref Armagan
Blind Visual Artists and the Creative Trance: Sargy Mann
Blindness and the Haptic Creative Trance: Geerat Vermeij
Blindness and the Intensity of the Musical Creative Trance
Blindness and the Professional Musical Creative Trance
Blindness, Medical Care, and the African American Musical Creative Trance
Early Blindness and Success for African American Music Professionals
A Lineage of Blind African American Music Professionals
The Historical Roots of Blind African American Music Professionals
The Interstellar Legacy of Blind Willie Johnson
Chapter 11 Dementia and the Creative Trance
Dementia: Its Prevalence and Symptoms
Dementia and the Experience of Wholeness in the Creative Trance
Alzheimer’s Disease and the Creative Trance: Iris Murdoch
Alzheimer’s Disease and Celebrity Activism: Glen Campbell
Alzheimer’s Disease and Celebrity Activism: Rita Hayworth
Alzheimer’s Disease and Visual Artists
Alzheimer’s Disease and Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning: Alzheimer’s Disease, Mixed Dementia, and Continued Creativity
Alzheimer’s Disease and William Utermohlen
William Utermohlen: The Positive Effects of Alzheimer’s Disease on His Art
Dementia and Creativity: The Transforming Illness and Paradoxical Functional Facilitation
Frontotemporal Dementia and Creativity
Frontotemporal Dementia and Maurice Ravel
Frontotemporal Dementia: Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and Later Works
Frontotemporal Dementia and Anne Theresa Adams
Anne Theresa Adams: The Positive Effects of Frontotemporal Dementia on Her Art
Frontotemporal Dementia: Neuroplasticity and Acquired Savant Capacities
Chapter 12 Altered States of a Lifesaving Creative Trance
Crisis and the Lifesaving Creative Trance: Wag Dodge
Insight in Crisis and the Lifesaving Creative Trance: Wag Dodge
The Neuroscience of Insight and Analysis
Crisis and the Lifesaving Creative Trance: Extraordinary Human Strength
Extraordinary Human Strength as Inspiration for the Hulk
Crisis and the Lifesaving Creative Trance: Charlotte Heffelmire and Lauren Kornacki
Charlotte Heffelmire: EHS and the Lifesaving Creative Trance
Lauren Kornacki: EHS and the Lifesaving Creative Trance
Extraordinary Human Strength: Strategic Problem-Solving Creativity
Extraordinary Human Strength as an Altered State of Consciousness
Extraordinary Human Strength: Dissociative Aspects
EHS: Emotion, Cognition, Peptides, and the Fear Response
Extraordinary Human Strength: The Dorsal System and the Ventral System
EHS: Naturally Occurring Stimulants and Possible Unmeasured Forces
Extraordinary Human Strength: Clinical Aspects
Extraordinary Human Strength and the Philosophy of Yoga
EHS: Heffelmire and a Buddhist Mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum
Extraordinary Human Strength: An Open Mind and the Energy of Inspiration
Extraordinary Human Strength and the Model of a Singularity
Aspects of EHS and the Ubiquitous Energy Field
Theories of Exterior and Interior Quantum Processes
Extraordinary Human Strength and Cultural Correlates to the Energy Field
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