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Inspiration: Exploring the Experience and its Meaning

Tobin Hart

Department of Psychology, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118. thart{at}westga.edu

This article reports a qualitative research study of the experience of inspiration in ordinary persons. Results gleaned from analysis of 70 in-depth interviews suggest that this phenomenon is a significant and distinct epistemic event that many people experience. As such, this evidence may help to shift the center of gravity of knowing away from the exclusivity of a narrow form of rational empiricism. Although inspiration cannot be willed, it may be cultivated. Experiences described as the absence of inspiration seem to correspond to common mental health complaints.

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 3, 7-35 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/00221678980383002
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