The Course of Experience

Dickinson, Charles A.

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“…To return to the phenomenology of consciousness Heidegger sought to complete, Heidegger's sense of his Other Beginning as a pre-dawn "glow" still occluded within the First Beginning is also resonant with accounts from Tibetan Buddhism of a "luminous darkness" or "light of the void" latent within the more expansive luminosities of intensity ecstasy (Guenther, 1984). It is also consistent with early introspectionist tachistoscope research that distinguished a predimensional "spread" and indefinable glow at the briefest screen exposures, which can only be gradually detected with numerous repetitions "beneath" the more obvious "kick of light" that emerges out of it (Bichowski, 1925;Dickinson, 1926). Otto, William James, and Heidegger were all influenced by Schleiermacher, 1799Schleiermacher, /1988Marina, 2004) who understood mystical experience as the felt amplification of the inner form of the unfolding moment-what would now be termed the amplified expression of the moment by moment "microgenesis" of immediate consciousness out of its impalpable sense of synesthetically based felt meaning (Hunt, 1984(Hunt, , 1995(Hunt, , 2011.…”

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Intimations of a spiritual New Age: III. Martin Heidegger's phenomenology of numinous/Being experience and the "Other Beginning" of a futural planetary spirituality

2019

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The phenomenology of numinous or Being-experience in the later Heidegger is the focus in this third in a series of papers on a group of independent figures— also including Jung, Reich, Toynbee, Teilhard de Chardin, and Simone Weil—who beginning in the crisis years of the 1930s envisioned versions of a futural “New Age” spirituality to address a globalizing materialism and its disenchantments—and so also creating a context for much of contemporary transpersonal and consciousness studies. A preliminary consideration of Heidegger in the contexts of transpersonal psychology, religious studies, the macro-histories of Toynbee and Sorokin, James on “pure experience,” and spirituality as intelligence must also lead to some reckoning with Heidegger’s disastrous initial involvement with National Socialism. Considered here in terms of a spiritual metapathology of narcissistic inflation/grandiosity, it was his way past this episode that led from the mid 1930s on into his radical critique of a globalizing technology of universal commodification and to an answering futural potential for a spiritual “Other Beginning” and “last god”—re-sacralizing humanity for the “guardianship” and “sheltering” of planet and life.

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“…It is therefore interesting to note that Sander's assertion that microgenesis begins with diffuse, whole percepts which subsequently become sharpened and internally differentiated receives considerable confirmation from other studies. For example, experimenters using such different stimuli as geometric figures (6), letters of the alphabet (20), Rorschach (80,109) or self-made (31) inkblots, Rubin figureground cards (134), and various kinds of pictures (12,22,103), have also reported developmental sequences in the general direction of diffuse to specific. Further, Brigden (6) found a tendency towards simplification, completion, transposition, and increased symmetry as development progressed-a finding quite congruent with Sander's statement that percepts at the Vorgestalt stage tend to be made "better Gestalten" at the expense of object similarity.…”

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“…"These preparatory phases are, in the average subject, preconscious: however, in introspective and/or obsessive people, the inquiring examiner often obtains reports on what happened in the brief interval between the stimulus-and reaction-word-how definitions, images, clang and other deviant associations occurred and were rejected, though the result came quickly and as a 'popular reaction' " (p. 20).…”

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A microgenetic approach to perception and thought.

Flavell¹,

Draguns²

1957

Psychological Bulletin

192

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“…Dickinson (13) followed up intensively an earlier effort to get at the initial moment of visual experience. Although the stimulus was not described adequately enough to allow for evaluation, he corroborated the other studies already quoted by grading the order of experience as (i) bi-dimensional (mere spread), (2) tri-dimensional (depth), and ( 3) vagueness (unlocalized film and greyness).…”

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A tachistoscopic study of the order of emergence in the process of perception.

Douglas¹

1947

Psychological Monographs

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Previous studies had borne witness that perception is phenomenal in character. This investigation has sought to probe the larger problem of the order and regularity of all natural events as manifested in the limited area of perception. Eighteen adult subjects participated in a series of individual experimental sittings. Picture material of varied complexity was projected tachistoscopically at exposures of 2.5 ms speed, proceeding through a graded series of focal steps from complete out-of-focus to clear in-focus. Subjects dictated into the Ediphone at each focal step a verbatim record of that perceptual experience, accumulating altogether a total of 958 protocols from which qualitative evaluations were subsequently deduced. On the basis of the analysis of the protocol records, it was found that perception is a process in time whose course spans an orderly sequence of developments and whose termination marks a formidable achievement of organization in which some parts have been elevated to dominance and others have been depressed to subordination. The acme of perception is accomplished in the interpretative stage. The out-of-focus to in-focus methodology, particularly when coupled with tachistoscopic projection, proves highly fruitful for an exploration of the perceptual process. An exposure speed of 2.5 ms is entirely adequate for perceptual purposes and is sufficient to demonstrate the fact that perception involves vastly more than vision alone. The significant findings for adult subjects justify a repetition of the entire study, appropriately modified, with juvenile subjects of a variety of age representations. At this point we take departure in full assurance that the future will not soon impoverish perception of its rich stores of experimental materials—at least, not for the student who is curious still about this most momentous of all phenomena.

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The Course of Experience

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Intimations of a spiritual New Age: III. Martin Heidegger's phenomenology of numinous/Being experience and the "Other Beginning" of a futural planetary spirituality

Intimations of a spiritual New Age: III. Martin Heidegger's phenomenology of numinous/Being experience and the "Other Beginning" of a futural planetary spirituality

A microgenetic approach to perception and thought.

A tachistoscopic study of the order of emergence in the process of perception.

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