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Exceptional Human Experience
Flow
in Everyday Life"
(B).
The
last essay may be the most
interesting--in
it
Csikszentmihalyi
discusses
"the
future
of
flow"
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04037. Privette, G.
Dynamics of peak performance. Jour-
nal of Humanistic Psychology , 1981 (Win), 27(1),
57-67.
Are
there
common
elements
in
experiences
of
high
level
performance
in
different
activities?
This
ex-
ploratory
study
initiates
a
research
basis
for understanding
superior
use
of
human
potential.
Peak
performance,
defined operationally as behavior
that
exceeds
one’s
predict-
able
level
of functioning, represents superior
use
of poten-
tial
in
any human
endeavor.
Examined
were
episodes
of
peak
performance
reported by
adult
subjects
in
four
groups:
psychology, creative
arts, adult education, and graduate coun-
seling.
Factor
analyses and ANOVA
of
factor
scores were
used
to
compare
reported
experiences
of
superior
functioning with
those
of
average
behavior.
Results
indi-
cated
that
peak
performance
is an
independent
entity
with
distinguishing phenomenological
dimensions.
These
dimen-
sions
of
peak
performance
include:
(a)
absorption
and
clarity
which
comprise
clear
focus
upon
both
object
and
self,
(b)
spontaneity
and
unrestrained
behavior,
and
(c)
ex-
pression
of
self.
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PLANETARY/COSMIC
THEORETICAL
04038. Pollard, Frank.
A theology for the new age. Jour-
nal of Religion and Psychical Research ,
1990
(Apr),
13(2),
94-96. 8
refs
The
author
proposes
that
"an
integration
of
[several]
concepts
could
constitute
a
new
system
of
belief,
a
new
religion, a new myth,
a new directing mechanism
in the
lives
of
the
inhabitants
of
this
planet"
(p,
94).
He
discusses
five
concepts.
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t
04039. West, Ross Evan.
Gaia: The new Mother Earth.
Hew Realities, 1989 (Sep/Oct),
70(1),
16-23. 3 photos
Unlike Darwin, who believed
in
the survival of the
fit-
test
as
the
biological
basis
of
evolution,
British
chemist
James Lovelock
sees
cooperation,
not
competition,
as
the en-
gine
of
biological
progress.
A
look
at
his Gaia
Hypothesis
and
its
implications
for
the
scientific,
ecological,
and
spiritual realms.
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POLTERGEISTS/HAUNTINGS
CASES
field.
Keith, and
Bolten,
Steven.
Polter-
iPist: Warnbro
(W.A.).
Australian Institute of Psychic
Research (AIPR) Bulletin ,
1985
(May/Jun),
No.
6,
10-11.
refs
In
the
summer
of
1974,
1975
or
1976,
Kath
and
her
daughter,
4,
came
to
live
in
Barry
and
Sue’s
house.
Kath
had
an
affair
with
Barry.
This
was known
to
Sue.
Over
three
nights, loud knocks were
heard on
the windows of
the
house.
The
neighbor’s
children and
police
could
not
locate
anyone
outside
the
house.
On
night
four,
Barry
pretended
to go
to
work,
but
crept
back
to
the
house.
At
midnight,
loud knocks sounded on
the windows.
As the knocks passed
the
front door, Barry
fired
a speargun through
the
door.
He
found
no-one
outside.
The
women
became
hysterical
as
more
knocks sounded
on
the
windows.
All
three
went
to
bed.
Later,
Barry
heard
a
loud
scream.
He
found
Kath
lying
in
the
hallway
with
her
feet
off
the
ground
and
her
Vol.
8, Nos. 1/2
December 1990
hair
back.
Kath
stated
she
had
been
dragged
out
of
bed,
after
feeling cold hands on
her
ankles.
Kath
left
the
house
at once, and Barry and Sue within the week.
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04041.
Frodsham, John.
The picture that would
not
burn: An
u n usu a 1
h aun tin g.
Australian
Institute of
~Psychic Research
(AIPR ) Bulletin ,
1984
(Aug/Scp),
No.
4,
5 refs. ~~
“This
article
is
an
edited
version
of
an
article
from
Fate [March
1984,
85-90].
Mrs. R
believed
her
house
in
a
Perth (W.A.) suburb was haunted.
She
had
burnt
a
morbid
photography
of
the
gravestone
of
a
child
who
had
died
in
1856,
only
to
later
find
the
photo
back
in
its
album.
A
photo
of
her
father
vanished
from
its
shelf,
only
to
later
reappear.
She saw
the
apparition
of
the
"gravestone"
girl
in
a
hallway.
A
neighbor’s
child
also
reported
a
young
ghost
in
the
house.
A
glass
utensil
"flew" and
smashed
onto
the
floor.
Mrs R
suffered
insomnia
and
felt
oppressed
by
the
house,
but
this
was
relieved
by
a
Christian
exorcism
ceremony.
Mrs.
R,
who
is
psychic,
perhaps
created
the
ghosts
as
"thought-forms"
to
resolve
some
inner
conflict
brought to the surface by the gravestone
plot.
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04042.
Hough,
Michael.
Two
haunted
brothers.
Australian
Institute of Psychic Research (AIPR)
Bulletin,
1^1986 (Feb), No.
9,
5-11.
illus; 22
refs.
During
the
first
three
months
in
their
house,
brothers
Patrick
and
Brian
(pseudonyms)
had
many
unusual
ex-
periences,
mostly
upon
waking
up
(hypnagogic
imagery).
Patrick
reported
apparitions
of people standing near
the
bed;
a
wind
that
seemed
to
lift
up
the
doona;
a
non-existent
clock
ticking; and cupboard doors moving (they were
actually
shut).
Brian,
listening
to
a
relaxation
tape, saw
a scarty devil
figure.
Patrick
believed
evil
was
at
work;
he
became
ob-
sessed
with
witchcraft and
numerology-a
classic example
of
the
"awareness
trap,"
He
set
out on
a
3000-km
car
trip
in
search of answers.
The experiences changed
Patrick from an
atheist
to
a
spiritual
belief.
Patrick,
believing
the
house
to
be
haunted,
researched
its
history.
However,
it
is
more
likely
that,
as
a
result
of
a
traumatic
relationship,
Brian
created
the
imagery
himself.
Patrick
became
drawn
in
by
mutual contagion.
Six months
later,
Patrick had
lost
his
ob-
session.
He know
uses
his imagery
positively and
creatively.
[A
reply
by
one
of
the
brothers,
Peter
King,
appears
in
AIPR
Bulletin
10,
31-15.]
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04043.
Playfair, Guy Lyon, and
Grosse, Maurice.
En-
field
revisited: The
evaporation
of
positive
evidence.
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research ,
1988
(Oct),
55(813), 208-219.
refs
From September 1977 to October 1978 the authors
inves-
tigated
spontaneous
events
in
a
North
London
house,
the
scene
of what
has become known
as
the
Enfield
poltergeist.
Their
findings
were
published
in
a
book
and
widely
publicized.
They
reflect here on some
of the problems
faced
by those who claim to have obtained
positive evidence.
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04044.
Schwalm, Maurice.
Psychical and
mystical
ex-
perience.
II. The ghost with two guns and
three
graves.
Journal of Religion and Psychical Research
,
1989
(Jul),
72(3),
155-158.
Case
of an
apparition
of
a
priest,
Fr. Henry David
Jar-
dine,
about whom
Paul
Wellman
wrote
The Chain
(1949).
The
ghost
of
the
priest
is
seen
at Old
St.
Luke’s
Episcopal
Church
in Kansas
City, MO.
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04045.
Time-Life
Books.
(Editors).
.
Hauntings.
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