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Chapter 12 - Altered States of a Lifesaving Creative Trance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

Tobi Zausner
Tobi Zausner
Affiliation:
C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, New York
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Creativity and its trance states can extend to lifesaving acts of heroism that far exceed ordinary human limitations. By entering a creative trance in the middle of a raging forest fire, the firefighter Wag Dodge invented a new way to reroute the path of flames. Altered states can also occur when individuals lift a multi-thousand-pound vehicle to rescue a person trapped beneath it. They display what is colloquially called hysterical strength, which this book calls extraordinary human strength (EHS). With its enormous power and focused open mind, EHS has congruence with extreme yoga capacities in the philosophy of Patanjali. There is a possible dominance of the dorsal system of the brain in EHS and potential effects of adrenaline, norepinephrine, and cortisol. An inquiry into the origin of its power examines quantum sources, such as vacuum energy and possible chameleon scalar fields with suggested correspondences in neural quantum processes and Eastern philosophies.

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creativityaltered states of consciousnesstrancehysterical strengthyoga philosophyenergy fieldvoidquantum fieldchameleon scalar fieldsneural quantum processes
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The Creative Trance
Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process
 , pp. 174 - 189
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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