1996 Professional Seminar: Peak and Other Exceptional Experiences During the GATEWAY VOYAGE (Todd J. Masluk)

brain, which is quadric petite, or the four quadrants, which you can see up here. They consist of the upper left cerebral quadrant, the lower left cerebral quadrant, here's the lower right limbic quadrant and the upper right cerebral quadrant. And you can see the different characteristics associated with the different before different quadrants. It's important to mention that these four different quadrants are aspects of thinking style are not localized to any specific part of the human brain. It's simply a useful conceptualization tool, to to think about how people tend to use your thinking processes are people who take the human brain dominance instrument receive four basic scores for each of the four quadrants. And the numerical scores are three different scores, the first score will be a one, which is acquire, and that indicates that someone has a strong preference for one of the four quadrants, the second possible numerical score, which they could receive would be a two, which is a secondary, and it's not quite as strong as a as a primary that indicates that, in other words, if someone is comfortable with using any before thinking styles, but doesn't necessarily rely on it all the time. And the third possible score that they can receive is a three, which is a tertiary, and that indicates that indicated indifference or even a resistance to rely on one of the four thinking styles. 18:16 Okay, why did I decide to use the human brain and instrument? Well, I was thinking about what that we tried to do here at the Institute. And one of the explanations I had I have gotten would come to was that people, people's positive experiences, as a result of the gateway program are often attributable to using one's whole brain. In a referral to variable thinking style might reveal might reveal some individual differences. For instance, what about participants who have received a warning in each of those quadrants, that would suggest that someone tends to use all four thinking styles, and I thought it would be very interesting to see whether these individuals are different from individuals who say get through threes or twos in those four quadrants and see if there's any differences and who get who gains from the gallery program. 19:30 Okay, let me move on to the phases of my data collection. If you're interested, there's actually a flowchart in my handout and you could see the details of of how the questionnaires were mailed out and returned and so forth. Question 19:52 Submitted Correct. 19:54 Yes, exactly. Okay, do then data was collected at three points in time. The first time I did it was collected was actually on the first day of Gateway trainers administered the head and brain dominance instrument. The Myers Briggs informed consent forms in my own city endorsement letter. So all of those four items were administered to get the participants on the first day of Gateway. Post gateway, part one of my pet experience questionnaire was mailed, as well as a cover letter to Gateway participants one week after gateway. Reminder notices were mailed a week after that. Those who didn't respond and young Dr. Pete question will not another copy of the questionnaire, three weeks after gateway, so nouns were repeated. Part Two of my questionnaire, the cover letter was mailed to all participants six months after gateway. And included with the peak experience questionnaire. Part Two was a transcript of any kinds of experiences that participants may have recorded on the first part of the questionnaire is the peak experience questionnaire. Part Two wasn't known back within a week or so reminder notices when you head out again, with the peak questionnaire wasn't received within three weeks, the earrings were repeated again. 21:45 So data collection, actually last year from September 1993 to December 1994, with sunlight returns coming in from January and February of 1994. So essentially, it was a 15 month data collection period. I learned quite a bit in 1984, about filing and stuffing envelopes and clerical tasks. And it was it was the most god awful time of my life. However I did, I did gain a real appreciation for making sure that data is handled correctly. And then just follow the weather the way it should be. I just think it's a it's an essential task. And yes. I think that the time I'm glad actually, I do decide to go on and become an anthropologist, I don't think I can take it for any longer than you and I will see you there Jane Goodall in the field for like five years collecting data. And making ttbb an idea of just what is involved here with Amelia Island making 55 trips to the post office to more question is, and Alana making 66 trips down to the Monterey Institute to collect questions that were coming in. Thank goodness for people like Helen where who, out of the goodness of her heart collective infamy and Catherine really stepped away. Question 23:22 trade off and a really high return rate. That is a good point. Actually just get into that. A second cabin. Speaking of return rate, out of 160 participants, one in 25 completed a study 23:44 Considering all that was asked to them. I mean, it's it's very time consuming to fill out the inventories. Plus it needed to be filled out correctly. Well, you know, it didn't count. And also consider the fact that materials needed to be returned to me at three different points in time. And you said it's remarkable, the return rate. And it's probably worth sharing some thoughts about why I think I receive such an incredible return rate because I think there's something to be learned from it. 24:25 I think one of the reasons that the percentage will be so high was the fact that training the trainer's did such a fabulous job of selling my research project to the participants. I can't say enough about that. And Darlene we had handled that and they just did an excellent job on another aspect that probably helped me is the fact that there was an endorsement letter that participants receive received and the Monterey Institute was more or less giving your stamp of approval on who Search also made a real point of paying attention to detail making sure that we typed letters, good quality, quality envelopes, everything was more about first class and priority mail. And that probably probably contributed something. I also used for more operations, calling people doctor, Investor News, and just a t shirt as a sign of respect. And I also made a point of expressing gratitude in all of the cover letters, which I mailed. 25:44 Probably the last and maybe maybe the most important reason for receiving such requiring such a good response rate was the fact that we only back up just a second, I was, at one point in time, I was trying to actually struggling with the idea of how am I going to get these questionnaires back from people, I realized there was so much involved. And I knew the kind of response rates that normally happen with with survey research. And I was beating my brains out for literally weeks. And I initially thought that, well, maybe I could kind of bribe these people. And I could use other products and maybe some team i, t shirts are some heavy send tapes, and maybe that would encourage them to return request in years. And I thought about the idea. And it didn't quite feel right, I thought, Well, gee, now if people could come here from all over the world, and pay the tuition and take the DVD program, you know, T shirts, probably not going to make that much of a difference. However, little light bulb went on in my head, and I realized, you know, one of the reasons that people are coming here is the fact that they're very information hungry and want to learn something about themselves. And I realized I got something that they don't have. Well, we have two scores on the Myers Briggs on the hurling brain dominance instrument. So I made, I promised participants that if they completed the study, and if they requested it, I'd share their scores on these inventories. Were very just divided by that idea. And I mean, we couldn't thank them enough. So it was an important reason for a high high response rate. 27:43 You can I have table one please? Okay, this is a table of the demographic data, which I received. From the table saw presenting deviate somewhat from APA format, I left a lot of information out, there would only be on the bottom of the table, things like probability notes, and general notes and that kind of thing. I purposely left those out for use of presentation. Fact, some of my notes were actually longer than the tables themselves. So whether you love or not, you actually are glad that I did that. You can see on here, the distribution for gender, maybe one man and 79, really, and so it's fairly equally distributed. This is really interesting here, educational level, this, this just blew me away. I was wanting to pose a hypothetical question to you. Suppose the way in the Kmart one day actually ultimately came out let's make a giant foods or Kroger since everyone needs to eat. Let's say that you were doing totally survey and took 100 people and you want it any less than how far have you gone in school that has a highest educational level which you attained? Chances are you're going to find that maybe 50 People went as far as high school. Whether you like it 30, who say you had a college degree, and it would have been a smaller percentage who had a postgraduate degree in a master's or a doctorate where the rest is distribution here. What you find is just the opposite of what we'd probably find in the general population. That very well when they saw it. There are 18 people who have doctorate degrees. A lot FDA is a dairy population. My sense is that this is probably quite typical for gateway that higher rate Typical for the general population 30:07 Okay, marital status partner big surprises their nationality this was very interesting I got quite a number of people, non Americans in my investigation 30:30 in some of the interesting places where they came from, well I have one dodgy one British nine Canadian which is kind of interesting a lot of people coming down from up north as you raise instead of just saying it'd be a lot of Canadians that come here Question 30:55 closer toward the equator 31:12 to people who are Chinese one Danish, two Dutch one French, one German. When Irish one Israeli, Palestinian one Japanese one Kenyan one New Zealand one new Scottish and one Troodon true Debian I guess that's how you pronounce it. Anyway, I got some amazing looking stamps even though I don't know anything about stamps but I've pulled onto a gorgeous beautiful lucky fly and it might be worth something someday. But not not seen in this table in a was probably worth mentioning is people people's occupations are primary white collar which isn't surprising. Considering the educational level and the occupation seem to be commensurate with people's educational level. There are quite a number of lawyers, physicians, nurses, engineers and so forth. Often not seen in the total and I've seen interest was the fact that one of the questions I asked at my peak experience questionnaire whereas whether people consider themselves to be spiritually oriented or more religious minded individuals and just about everyone shows the response category of being more spirit and spiritual oriented. Can you tell me your next table please? Okay, Myers Briggs si was completed by 157 participants. The most frequently occurring type which you can see right here is the INFP. Someone was mentioning it seems to be a typical type of pay comes to Gateway I'm not all that familiar with the distributions in the general population maybe if someone else knows more about it than I do, but there seems to be a very atypical a typical distribution for those of us who don't know what those letters keywords are introversion that