Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds

6. The suspension of individual consciousness and the dissolution of self and other boundaries^*

^* The lead author is Gün R. Semin, Ph.D., an Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is the founding Scientific Director of the Kurt Lewin Graduate School, a past president of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Chair of the International Committee of the Association for Psychological Science. Semin’s research is primarily driven by an interest in communication, social cognition as a jointly recruited process, and language and the diverse uses that ...