THE RELATIONSHIPS OF CREATIVITY, TIME EXPERIENCE AND MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE (ROGERS).
Contributors: New York University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among creativity, time experience, and mystical experience as manifestations of diverse field pattern. Martha Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings provided the theoretical framework for this study. Timelessness, creativity, and mystical experience were identified as manifestations of human field pattern, reflecting a more diverse field with a high frequency wave pattern.

It was hypothesized that creativity would be positively related to mystical experience, that timelessness would be positively related to mystical experience, and that creativity would be positively related to timelessness.

The nonrandom sample consisted of 193 college students, 47 males and 146 females, ranging in age from 18 to 60 years of age. These volunteer participants completed a demographic information form and three short tests measuring the variables. Creativity was defined as a multidimensional process demonstrated by a preference for complexity as measured by the Revised Art Scale. Mystical experience, an experiential phenomenon, was measured by the Mysticism Scale. Timelessness, as measured by the Oceanic Cluster of the Time Metaphor Test, was defined as lacking directionality with motion of time either absent or vague. Scores were obtained for each of the three variables and analyzed using Pearson product-moment correlations.

The hypothesized relationships between creativity and mystical experience (r =.049, p =.50), and between creativity and timelessness (r =.068, p =.34) were not supported. A significant relationship was observed between timelessness and mystical experience (r =.154, p =.03) However, there were questions on time experience in the Mysticism Scale and when these were removed the relationship between mystical experience and timelessness became nonsignificant (r =.125, p =.08).

Supplementary revealed a significant correlation between timelessness and mystical experience for males, and for the total sample. Significant correlations were also found between mystical experience and both timelessness and creativity for participants who practiced definite meditation techniques, prayer or relaxation. In addition timelessness and creativity were significantly correlated for participants who attended school in Maryland.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-08, Section: B, page: 3394.

Thesis (PH.D.)--NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0146.