From Dr. Patti Taylor – ExpandedLovemaking.com
AN OBSERVATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PRACTITIONERS OF
EXPANDED ORGASM:
AN INVESTIGATION OF AN EFFECTIVE, POWERFUL, AND
ACCESSIBLE PATH TO TRANSCENDENT STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
ABSTRACT
Patricia H. Taylor Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in Transpersonal Psychology
International University of Professional Studies Maui, Hawaii, 2000
COPYRIGHT WARNING: © Patricia H. Taylor, PhD 2000. All rights reserved. Unauthorized citations, copying, or distribution is prohibited. For permissions, please contact Patricia Taylor at [email protected]. For more information about Expanded Orgasm and Expanded Lovemaking, please visit www.ExpandedLovemaking.com
Welcome to my PhD Dissertation! For better navigation (and enjoyment!)
please read this brief introduction.
This Collection contains key portions of my PhD Dissertation –a structured, observational study
of 44 practitioners of expanded orgasm (EO), in which I explore EO as an authentic (valid) path
to transcendent states of consciousness.
There are four documents here (part of the dissertation is NOT here ‐ history and background
relating to the topic). Each document has the same cover pages which show the title page, my
contact information, and a URL to my website where you can find lots more about EO.
EO Dissertation 1: The abstract, tables, and part of the Summary/Discussion section
EO Dissertation 2: The abstract, introduction, tables, and all of the Summary/Discussion section
EO Dissertation 3: The detailed results section
EO Dissertation 4: The survey tool I used to do the study
This Dissertation was converted into PDF form in early 2000. Accordingly there are a few figures
that did not convert very well or that have degraded; but these don't impact the text, logic, and
flow of the document. Also page numbers reflect the original document.
Enjoy! Patricia Taylor, PhD ("Dr. Patti")
Please visit my website at www.ExpandedLovemaking.com where you can:
‐ Learn lots more about Expanded Orgasm
‐ Discover my books, The Enchantment of Opposites: How to Create Great Relationships
and Expanded Orgasm: Soar to Ecstasy with Your Partner’s Every Touch
‐ Discover my demonstration DVD: Expand Her Orgasm Tonight!
‐ Learn about at‐home EO discovery programs
‐ Link to my free podcasts on topics of Expanded Lovemaking and profound spirituality
(each podcast is an interview of an author or researcher in the field!)
‐ And lots more
EO is an authentic, powerful, and pleasurable path to transcendent consciousness. Enjoy!
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT EXPANDED ORGASM?
Many of the questions in the survey questionnaire allowed the subject to give a response over a
wide range (rather than just Yes/No). You have probably answered questions with a set of
possible responses like this; for example the questionnaire makes a statement like “I like
winter” and you are given a range of five possible responses (plus, often, a sixth possible
response indicating that the question is not applicable to you or that you don’t know the
answer). For example, 1 is Strongly disagree, 2 is Disagree, 3 is Neutral (or Neither disagree nor
agree), 4 is Agree, and 5 is Strongly agree.
This way of constructing a response set for a question is called a Likert Scale. For the Likert
scale type questions in this questionnaire, I used the following possible response set:
1 never or hardly ever true
2 true sometimes
3 true about half the time
4 true most of the time
5 true all of the time
n/a no opinion or not applicable
A NOTE ABOUT LIKERT SCALE RESPONSES IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE