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- noun Plural form of
photism .
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Examples
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This last phenomenon is perhaps akin to the luminous visions, called photisms by psychologists, which not infrequently accompany conversion and other religious experiences and take the form of flashes or rays proceeding from material objects [673].
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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I suspected there was something deep and metaphysical happening behind these waves of magenta, persimmon and indigo lighted "photisms" synesthetes see and he seemed to agree.
Maureen Seaberg: Tasting the Universe Maureen Seaberg 2011
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I suspected there was something deep and metaphysical happening behind these waves of magenta, persimmon and indigo lighted "photisms" synesthetes see and he seemed to agree.
Maureen Seaberg: Tasting the Universe Maureen Seaberg 2011
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Such reports of photisms are indeed far from uncommon.
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I refer to hallucinatory or pseudo-hallucinatory luminous phenomena, photisms, to use the term of the psychologists.
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Such reports of photisms are indeed far from uncommon.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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I refer to hallucinatory or pseudo-hallucinatory luminous phenomena, photisms, to use the term of the psychologists.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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I suspected there was something deep and metaphysical happening behind these waves of magenta, persimmon and indigo lighted "photisms" synesthetes see and he seemed to agree.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Maureen Seaberg 2011
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