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Extreme experiences are not just intense but involve profound shifts in selfhood and perception. This study re-situates them within existential thought and embodiment, revealing their significance in human existence.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Existential Philosophy
  • Phenomenology

Background:

  • Dominik Mihalits (2025) proposed a multidimensional model for extreme experiences.
  • Previous psychological and existential traditions have addressed similar phenomena.
  • De-pathologizing extreme experiences is a key concern.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To theoretically re-situate extreme experiences.
  • To reconstruct their existential and developmental significance.
  • To introduce an embodied perspective on these phenomena.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis drawing on Karl Jaspers and Abraham Maslow.
  • Reconstruction of extreme experiences beyond descriptive classification.
  • Application of an embodied perspective focusing on the lived body and body schema.

Main Results:

  • Extreme experiences involve disruptions of selfhood and openings to new perceptions.
  • They are conceptualized as embodied threshold phenomena.
  • Mihalits' dimensions are seen as markers of deeper processes.

Conclusions:

  • Extreme experiences are not marginal anomalies but reveal fundamental aspects of human existence.
  • An embodied perspective clarifies their transformative nature.
  • Existential and developmental significance extends beyond mere intensity.