The topic of this post is covered in an interesting book by John C. Gowan, called Trance, Art, and Creativity[0] which was brought to mind by another recent sub

The topic of this post is covered in an interesting book by John C. Gowan, called Trance, Art, and Creativity[0] which was brought to mind by another recent submission, "What it means to teach gifted learners well"[1] (Gowan was founder of the National Association of Gifted Children in 1958)[2]. I first stumbled on his work (which spans a wide range from educational psychology to esoteric parapsychology) in a bookstore in Ithaca, NY and have always been curious if others are familiar with it. [0] http://web.archive.org/web/20090101190837/http://www.csun.edu/edpsy/Gowan/content.html http://web.archive.org/web/20090101190837/http://www.csun.ed... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30002087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30002087 [2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-14-mn-3024-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-14-mn-3024-s...