Everyday Religiosity and Extraordinary Experiences

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Megan Adamson Sijapati
Keyword(s):  
Extraordinary Experiences

scholarly journals Storytelling through experiencescape: Creating unique stories and extraordinary experiences in farm tourism

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Y Mei ◽  
Ann-Margret S Hågensen ◽  
Heidi S Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Farm Tourism ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Creating unique stories through storytelling as a way to stage extraordinary experiences has become increasingly important in the tourism industry, particularly in experience-based activities such as farm tourism. However, limited resources and the lack of knowledge of the experiencescape suggest that many farm tourism operators struggle to integrate the experiencescape as part of storytelling. The research method chosen was an explorative study with the use of semi-structured in-depth interviews with key farm tourism operators in the Inland region in Norway. How stories and concepts are created is dependent on the resources available, the perception of authenticity, the history of the farm as well as the environment. Storytelling can be facilitated through tangible elements in the experiencescape such as the physical environment as well as intangible elements including the interaction and dynamics between the host and guest. The farmer or the person telling the story also need to possess certain skills, engagement, and interest in order to be committed to deliver the story or the concept. Essentially, the farmer becomes a part of the product and the experience.

The dynamic interplay between structure, anastructure and antistructure in extraordinary experiences

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 3361-3370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina C. Husemann ◽  
Giana M. Eckhardt ◽  
Reinhard Grohs ◽  
Raluca E. Saceanu
Keyword(s):  
Extraordinary Experiences ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728752110646
Author(s):  
Sandhiya Goolaup ◽  
Robin Nunkoo
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Collaborative Interactions ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences ◽  
Structural Perspective

Research that conceptualizes tourist extraordinary experiences both from the structural and anti-structural perspective is limited in the tourism literature. The purpose of this research is to develop a new theoretical perspective that re-conceptualizes our understanding of tourists’ extraordinary experience by taking into consideration both the structural and anti-structural elements of an experience. It draws on phenomenological interviews with 26 food tourists. The study finds that extraordinary experience consists of elements such as profaneness, collaborative interactions and conflict-easing, which represent both the structural and anti-structural elements. The findings of this study allow us to question whether extraordinary experience is purely structural or anti-structural as suggested by previous research. Rather, based on the findings, we argue that extraordinary experience is the positive co-existence of both the ordinary and the non-ordinary. As a result, we use the term “synstructure” to conceptualize the tourist extraordinary experience.

An Encounter with the Other: A Thematic Analysis of Accounts of DMT Experiences from a Naturalistic Field Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Michael ◽  
David Luke ◽  
Oliver Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences ◽  
Alien Abduction ◽  
Increasing Trends

Introduction: N, N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an endogenous serotonergic psychedelic capable of producing radical shifts in conscious experience. Increasing trends in its use, as well as new trials administering DMT to patients, indicate the growing importance of a thorough elucidation of the phenomenology the drug may occasion. This is particularly in light of the hyper-real, otherworldly, and often ontologically challenging yet potentially transformative, nature of the experience, not least encounters with apparently non-self social agents. Laboratory studies have been limited by clinical setting and lacking qualitative analyses, while online surveys’ limitations lie in retrospective design, recreational use, and both of which not guaranteeing ‘breakthrough’ experiences. Methods: We report on the first naturalistic field study of DMT use including its qualitative analysis. Screened, healthy, anonymised and experienced DMT users (40-75mg inhaled) were observed during their non-clinical use of the drug at home. Semi-structured interviews using the micro-phenomenological technique were employed immediately after their experience. This paper reports on the thematic analysis of one major domain of the breakthrough experiences elicited; the ‘other’. Thirty-six post-DMT experience interviews with mostly Caucasian (83%) males (8 female) of average 37 years were predominantly inductively coded. Results: Invariably, profound and highly intense experiences occurred. The main overarching category comprised the encounter with other ‘beings’ (94% of reports), with further subordinate themes including the entities’ role, appearance, demeanour, communication and interaction; while the other over-arching category comprised experiences of emerging into other ‘worlds’ (100% of reports), in turn consisting of the scene, the content and quality of the immersive spaces. Discussion: The present study provides a systematic and in-depth analysis of the features of the otherworldly encounter within the breakthrough DMT experience, as well as elaborating on the resonances with both previous DMT studies and other types of extraordinary experiences which also entail entity encounters. These include the alien abduction, folkloric, shamanic and near-death experience. Putative neural mechanisms of these features of the DMT experience and its promise as a psychotherapeutic agent are discussed in light of such findings.

Event and experience design

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Wrathall ◽  
Effie Steriopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Event Management ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Peak Experiences ◽  
Core Domain ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences

Event design is an important aspect of planned events, and events have the power to transform individuals. An emerging focus in event design is the focus on meanings and event experiences (Getz & Page, 2016). Event design, a core ‘domain’ or function of event management offers the potential to achieve, or at least facilitate these transformations. The emergence of the so-called transformation economy has been at least partly responsible for a movement in the focus of planned events beyond extraordinary experiences towards experiences that could be regarded as transformative or even life-changing. Described as peak experiences, these transformational events have important implications for event design.

Extraordinary Experiences of Joy

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-79
Author(s):  
Dolph Kohnstamm
Keyword(s):  
Extraordinary Experiences

“I’m a completely different person now”: Extraordinary experiences and personal transformations in sport

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-718
Author(s):  
Amy Rundio ◽  
Marlene A. Dixon ◽  
Bob Heere
Keyword(s):  
Personal Transformations ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences

Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved and Adaptive Outcomes of Grief

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie S. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Causal Network ◽  
Grief Work ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Case Data

A multiple case questionnaire/interview study was used to investigate Extraordinary Experiences (EEs) reported by bereaved individuals. Its purpose was to describe the grief processes of 12 bereaved individuals who had reported EEs. Content analysis consisted of a series of individual case data displays and causal networks from which an overall causal network that described participants' grief processes was derived. Despite some ongoing grief work and complicated grief patterns, 11 participants had reached an adaptive grief outcome. For these individuals, EEs played specific roles and fulfilled specific needs within and outside of the context of bereavement. EEs also facilitated the assimilation/accommodation of death by reinforcing participants' “personal mythologies” regarding death and an after-life. The findings of this study support the emerging model of grief that posits that maintaining continuing bonds with the deceased can be adaptive. They also support the assertion that spiritual and/or religious belief systems are associated with adaptive outcomes of grief.

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