Book contents
- The Creative Trance
- The Creative Trance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Pervasive State of Trance
- Chapter 1 The Multifaceted Creative Trance
- Chapter 2 Consciousness and Creativity Theory in the Creative Trance
- Chapter 3 Unconscious Origins of the Creative Trance
- Chapter 4 Empathy and Dissociation in the Creative Trance
- Chapter 5 Evolution, Altered States, and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 6 The Creative Trance and the Brain
- Chapter 7 Dynamics of the Creative Trance
- Chapter 8 Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit Disorder, and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 9 Illness and Transformation in the Creative Trance
- Chapter 10 Different Abilities and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 11 Dementia and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 12 Altered States of a Lifesaving Creative Trance
- References
- Index
Chapter 10 - Different Abilities and the Creative Trance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- The Creative Trance
- The Creative Trance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Pervasive State of Trance
- Chapter 1 The Multifaceted Creative Trance
- Chapter 2 Consciousness and Creativity Theory in the Creative Trance
- Chapter 3 Unconscious Origins of the Creative Trance
- Chapter 4 Empathy and Dissociation in the Creative Trance
- Chapter 5 Evolution, Altered States, and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 6 The Creative Trance and the Brain
- Chapter 7 Dynamics of the Creative Trance
- Chapter 8 Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit Disorder, and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 9 Illness and Transformation in the Creative Trance
- Chapter 10 Different Abilities and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 11 Dementia and the Creative Trance
- Chapter 12 Altered States of a Lifesaving Creative Trance
- References
- Index
Summary
Different abilities enlarge the terrain of the creative trance. By demonstrating the extended capacities of human beings, challenges widen the possibilities for everyone. Not all conditions can be “cured,” but healing is always available through self-transformation. Differently abled people experience altered states in sports competitions, the Paralympics, dance, wheelchair dance, music, science, and visual art, sometimes without limbs, vision, or hearing. They share a triumph of achievement gained through accomplishing something that was at one time thought to be impossible – perhaps even by them. There are physically integrated dance and theater companies for people of all abilities and a long lineage of blind African American music professionals. The effort to confront impediments alters the neural landscapes of their brains and empowers their creative trance. As the world champion wheelchair dancer, Piotr Iwanicki says, “When I’m on the dance floor, nothing matters at all. Dancing is all my life. It’s my passion.”
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- The Creative TranceAltered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process, pp. 145 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022