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This chapter is comprised of two major sections. The first lays groundwork and is titled “Preparatory Considerations.” The second focuses on some of the actual findings and is titled “Discoveries.” The entire chapter attempts to share in the spirit of aesthetic consciousness as well as describe ideas related to this phenomenon.

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Moncrieff, D. (1989). Aesthetic Consciousness. In: Valle, R.S., Halling, S. (eds) Existential-Phenomenological Perspectives in Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6989-3_15

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