

That is, I became a symbol I stood for something outside my own skin. And I thrilled at being in such a procession and felt the great dignity of it, of my robes, and even of myself as a person who belonged in this procession. Then the vision was also of the procession stretching out behind me into a dim, hazy infinity where there were people not yet born who would join the academic procession, the procession of scholars, of intellectuals, of scientists and philosophers. My vision or imagining was that the academic procession stretched way, way out into the future, far, far away, further than I could see, and it had Socrates at its head, and the implication was, I suppose, that many of the people far ahead had been there and in previous generations, and that I was a successor and a follower of all the great academics and professors and intellectuals. For example, my experience of being bored in an academic procession and feeling slightly ridiculous in cap and gown, and suddenly slipping over into being a symbol under the aspect of eternity rather than just a bored and irritated individual in the moment and in the specific place.
#Transdata transcendence skin#
“Transcendence in the metaphyschological sense of transcending one’s own skin and body and bloodstream, as in identification with the B-Values so that they become intrinsic to the Self itself.”ģ. In this sense, meditation or concentration on something outside one’s own psyche can produce self-forgetfulness and therefore loss of self-consciousness, and in this particular sense of transcendence of the ego or of the conscious self.”Ģ.

It is the same kind of self-forgetfulness which comes from getting absorbed, fascinated, concentrated. “Transcendence in the sense of loss of self-consciousness, of self-awareness, and of self-observing of the adolescent depersonalization type. Maslow’s Various Meanings of Transcendence from The Farther Reaches of Human Natureġ.
#Transdata transcendence free#

Maslow’s Various Meanings of Transcendence (35 Descriptions)Īs always, all quotes are from the author unless otherwise stated, and I’ve added emphasis to quotes in bold.Post Contents: Click a link to jump to a section in the post below
