Transliminality: its relation to dream-life, religiosity and mystical experience
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Follow-up study |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 116 |
| Population | Participants from a previous study on transliminality |
| Measures | Haraldsson's 8-Item Religiosity Scale |
| Topics | Mystical experience |
| Key points | Transliminality was related to dream recall and dream interpretation, to Haraldsson's 8-Item Religiosity Scale and several other religiosity measures, and to two additional measures of mystical experience, supporting the construct's broad relevance. |
Abstract
In a previous article (Thalbourne & Delin, 1994), evidence was presented that there exists a common thread underlying creative personality, mystical experience, psychopathology (both schizotypal and manic-depressive), and belief in the paranor- mal. This common factor was named rransliminality and was tentatively defined as a largely involuntary susceptibility to, and awareness of, large volumes of inwardly generated psychological phenomena of an ideational and affective kind (p. 25). This second article details the results of a follow-up study of this general psychological factor, in which 116 participants from the first study completed further question- naires. Transliminality was found to be related to measures of dream recall and dream interpretation, to Haraldsson's 8-Item Religiosity Scale and several other measures of religiosity, and to 2 additional measures of mystical experience.