Glossary of Terms Used in Parapsychology
Publisher: Puente Publications
Published: December 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780963450111
Subjects: Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs; Reference works; Handbooks & Manuals; Parapsychology - General; Reference; Reference / General; General; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit
First sentence: A psychological dimension defined by Tellegen and Atkinson (1974, p. 274) as "a 'total' attention, involving a full commitment of available perceptual, motoric, imaginative and ideational resources to a unified representation of the attentional object;" according to Harvey Irwin (1985, p. 2), the "inherent correlates of a state of absorption are posited to be an imperviousness to normally distracting events and a heightened sense of the reality of the object of attention;" thought to be a feature of the state of hypnosis, absorption is also said to characterize persons who report various sorts of psi experience, such as ESP, ESP agency, out-of-the-body experience, apparitions, and reincarnation memories.