Abstract

"Transliminality"-or "the ability to cross the threshold"-is the name that has been given to the common factor that has been found to underlie creative personality, mystical experience, psychopathology of the schizotypal and manic-depressive kind, and belief in and alleged experience of the paranormal. Other core constituents of transliminality are religiosity, frequency of dream-interpretation and fantasy-proneness. Other correlates include dream-recall and hyperaesthesia. A questionnaire containing a subset of these variables (and some others) was completed by 99 First-Year Psychology students, along with Beloff\'s 10-item "Consumer\'s Choice" test of precognition. Though the core transliminality-relevant variables intercorrelated significantly-component analysis yielding a single underlying factor-and though they correlated significantly with several additional measures, none of the variables was significantly related to the precognition scores. It is suggested that a !different test of ESP might yield more success.