Monday, September 07, 2009

As I awoke this morning from a nap, the name of Ivan Kireevsky popped into my head. I'd been trying to remember his name for the last week; so this remembrance was an illustration of the dynamic between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind vaguely described in throwaway poem 3 in the set of throwaway poems labeled 14. Of particular interest to me was Kireevsky's search for a kind of knowledge that would integrate intuition with reason. His pursuit sent him into the hesychastic tradition of Russian Orthodoxy; but his quest need not be seen exclusively as a religious conversion. Kireevsky might have something to say to those who today explore the interfaces between reason and intuition, and the bridges between modern science, epistemology, psychology, the arts, and the various spiritual traditions.

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