"Ultrarunners and Chance Encounters with "Absolute Unitary Being

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ID2464804
AuthorsPeter N Jones (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume15
Issue2
Pages39-50
Publication date2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology of Consciousness (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1053-4202 • E-ISSN: 1556-3537
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ac.2004.15.2.39
OpenAlexW2030450246
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited48

Among the newly enchristianed "extreme sports" category, ultrarunners and the sport of ultrarunning is on the fringe edge. What makes ultrarunners and their "sport" interesting is that ultrarunners regularly report experiences that can be equated to various types of mystical experiences during their "sporting" events. This paper briefly discusses ultrarunners, a hypothetical mystical (mythical) state of consciousness called Absolute Unitary Being, and the psychoneurophysiological aspects of ultrarunning. Through this process, a link is established that connects ultrarunners and their "sport" with many traditional indigenous practices. It is suggested that many of the traditional indigenous practices may have produced experiences similar to those of ultrarunners, and thus we can look to ultrarunners to begin to understand some of the physiological, psychological, neurological, as well as humanistic, phenomenological, and transpersonal experiences and reasons behind many now lost traditional indigenous practices

Absolute (philosophy · Consciousness · Epistemology · Humanism · Indigenous · Mysticism · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Transpersonal · Transpersonal psychology · Unitary state · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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