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Our Sweetest Hours: Recreation and the Mental State of Absorption

Our Sweetest Hours: Recreation and the Mental State of Absorption


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The phenomenon of "absorption" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is examined here. In this context, the principal areas of adult recreation are examined: stories, shows, intoxication, sex, music, dancing, art, and meditation. The issues discussed in this book have generally been overlooked by psychology, which is primarily concerned with the everyday business of living (self, anxiety, learning, etc.). This study will promote the understanding of the tremendous attractiveness of these modern diversions that are extremely absorbing and hypnotic.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Introduction: Psychological Diversion as Adult Play      1. Absorbed Attention      Degrees of Diversion      The Changing Relationship between Work and Play      2. Breaking Out of Everyday Consciousness      Invisible and Silent Recreation      Absorption as Hypnotic Involvement      Mental Relaxation      Suspending the Master Codes      3. The Enjoyments of Being Absorbed      Feeling a Dzyerent Identity      Spellbound in a New Reality      High-Quality Experience: Relaxed Arousal      4. Story Enjoyment      The Story Spell vs. the Illusion of Reality      The Fallacy of Vicarious Experience      Being One- With Fictional Characters      5. Ever More Absorbing Stories      Early Developments in Story Entertainment      The Movies      Television      6. Recreational Drugs      Getting High      Alcohol      Marijuana      The Psychedelics      7. The Recreational Value of People      Human Interaction as Personal Business      Sociable Recreation      Falling in Love      8. Sexual Experience      From Procreation to Recreation      Absorption and Erotic Fantasy      9. Motion and Emotion in Music      Music as Relaxed Arousal      From 'Stardust" to Rock: Mild to Extreme Diversion      Listening to Classical Music      10. Cultivated Diversions: Art      Appreciation vs. Enjoyment      Absorption as Psychic Distance and Empathy      Peak Experience through Aesthetic Absorption      11. Cultivated Diversions of Body and Mind      When Action Is Absorbing      Zen Sport: Letting the Body Take Over      Inspiration and the Play of Ideas      12. Meditation: The Cleansing of Awareness      The Limits of Lulling      Spiritual Efects through the Suspension of Perceptual Codes      Sensing the Supernatural      13. High-Processing Psychological States      The Four Major Orientations of the Organism      The Everyday Business of Living      Mental Distress      Ego-Involvement as a Basis for Distress and Mental Breakdown      14. Low-Processing Psychological States      Sleep and Dreams      A Declaration of Independence for the State of Absorption      Chapter Notes      Index     

About the Author :
Gene Quarrick lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Review :
“provocative work”—Exceptional Human Experience Network; “this fairly technical yet absorbing book looks at the scientific evidence linking absorption and hypnosis and shows how adults use this absorbed-hypnotic capability to bring diversion to their lives in the form of stories, music and intoxication, among others”—Science News.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786467143
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Recreation and the Mental State of Absorption
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0786467142
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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