First Sentence

"A psychological dimension defined by Tellegen and Atkinson (1974, p. 274) as "a 'total' attention, involving a full commitment of available perceptual, motoric, imaginative and ideational resources to a unified representation of the attentional object;" according to Harvey Irwin (1985, p. 2), the "inherent correlates of a state of absorption are posited to be an imperviousness to normally distracting events and a heightened sense of the reality of the object of attention;" thought to be a feature of the state of hypnosis, absorption is also said to characterize persons who report various sorts of psi experience, such as ESP, ESP agency, out-of-the-body experience, apparitions, and reincarnation memories."