Here are the links to various things related to our discussion today. I would REALLY appreciate it if you would take the time to post a comment which rates these links.
Link on Psychological term "Flow"
NY Times article on Out of Body Experiences
Modern Maenadism (Or what they claim to be modern maenadism) from the Pagan Forum (go figure, huh?).
And now for a bunch of YouTube Videos...
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I like all the music related videos. BB King has some really good videos that I think demonstrate "flow". There's also this baseball pitcher named Dock Ellis who I read about a long time ago. He dropped acid before a game and pitched a No-Hitter, maybe you could use that as an athletic version of Flow. Here's a quote from him from his Wikipedia page
ReplyDelete"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me."
BB King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpRIYi721WE
Dock Ellis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis#June_12.2C_1970_no-hitter
I guess Dock Ellis' example wasn't exactly what I meant when I started talking about FLOW in the athletic sense, but this still works as another example of ecstasis, since he literally took a drug to create a different state of mind.
ReplyDeleteThanks Roshan!