Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Transcendental Meditation, Edgar Mitchell, Abraham Maslow
2 Feb 2018
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Transcendence state of being which is superior to ordinary existence. Some theorist wanted to know what makes people happy; so they identified flow. What he found was that when people are challenged, and are able to meet the challenged, engaged in meeting the challenge,then you are in a state of flow. Absorption in the activity; forgetfulness of self occurs because your are enjoying yourself. Perfect, complete, source of justification for one"s life; restoring meaning to one"s life. Soteriological saved from miserable human situation (literal meaning), states of consciousness have purpose. Can be anything, including sitting on a sofa eating chips. Noetic having knowledge, having knowledge of something now that an experience has occurred. 1) seeing in colour; imagine seeing in black and white, then seeing in colour and now trying to explain to people that you can see in colour.
