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Theme 18 : The Limits of Knowledge
I. Awareness and intuitive knowledge.
1. Dialectics of the aware and intuitive (impossibility to exist without one another).
2. Absolutization of the aware. "Sin of superabstraction" (insanity of I. Kant).
3. Absolutization of the intuitive. "Sin of superfantasy" (insanity of Mohammed).
4. The advantages of aware knowledge (high coefficient of detailing with minimum waste of vital
energy; systematization; rational activity as an instrument; abstractedness; philosophic
inclination).
5. The advantage of intuitive knowledge (reception of pre-signals and antisignals; vision in
space-time; appearance of images; connection with the collective eidos and low psychism).
6. Necessity for applying flexibly the technique of aware and intuitive knowledge.
7. Aware and intuitive in daily routine consciousness (concept of Judgement Day, apocalyptic
moods, decoding of superstitions and fairy-tales) - G. Frazer, J. Propp, attitude to
paleocontacts and extra-terrestrials. Probability approach to all miraculous. "The miracle
occurring is not a miracle."
8. Scientific knowledge and belief as aware knowledge with the aim of gaining the collective eidos
of the whole human culture and as an intuitive act of communication with the collective eidos
of adepts; the object of collective worship is not an illusion, since this is a collective eidos,
consequently God will exist till people exist (L. Feuerbach, B. Iskhakov and others); the unity
of opposites - belief and doubt (probability, scientific thinking), the thesaurus of feelings and
religion.
9. Interiorization of feelings and knowledge as their cause. Criterion: till satiation; repeatedness
occurring, effect of crystallization.
10. Criterion of identifying oneself as belonging to a certain cultural circle; harmonization of
satisfaction with the sense of "natural narcissism" (Z. Freud).
11. Human curiosity and the criterion of practical interest; (will power as a desire).
12. The criterion of accumulation of intellectual and spiritual skills.
II. Memory and knowledge (L. Gumilyov "Ethnogenesis and biosphere of the Earth"; "A philistine
without professional background thinks that his personal memory is the base of knowledge: the
more he/she has memorized, the better educated he/she is. Is it really like that? Nobody could remember everything he has seen in his life. It is impossible, unnecessary and even harmful, as
an observer's field of vision embraces both major and minor objects, pleasant and annoying,
perceived in a right or a distorted way, kept at large or in fragments... It is not enough to
remember, it is even more necessary to think").
1. Denial of stubborn delusions and determination of knowledge limits:
a) attitude to the West, the Western culture, clarification of truth in general (Germans and
Albanians, Frenchmen and Americans, Australians and Spaniards, etc.);
b) attitude to the East (China, Tibet, India, Japan (Kirkwood); Africa (L. Frobenius), Dogons,
the Mediterranean Bronze age race (Tuaregs);
c) concept of the world cultures, ethnology and supposition (criterion: repeated occurrence of
the similar, the thought: "I have already come across it somewhere.");
d) ancient mysteries, and common sense (involvent of probability thinking)
e) motivation for focusing in ethnology; the instrument of straight ahead studying of the human
race evolution;
f) delusions connected with other sciences (harmonious knowledge as the criterion for
determining limits of acquaintance with sciences, clarification of essence and further lifetime
keeping in touch);
g) europocentrism and its elimination as an obligation for the autodidact.
2. Changing of a personality and limits of psychological knowledge. "Pride of the culture
accumulated" and "ethnos in old age."
a) a personality's moving towards psychic steadiness; steadiness as the criterion of high level of
self-knowledge;
b) a philistine and organism-restricted level of self-perception (withdrawal into one's own
organism, progressive with aging);
c) moment of restructuring a personality's elements and limits of knowledge (dialectics: "To be
oneself means to obtain being in one's better self"); knowledge of other sides of the
known, of the life's renewal; changing of phases, birth of one's new Self (biosphere of
personal cosmos, change of the combinations of elements);
d) facts and perfection of means for verifying them;
e) resistance to fictitious conceptions and focusing towards truth;
f) sensation of changes and results of personal development; foundation for self-reliant
constructions; specialization of interest and steady equilibrium in harmoniously developed
knowledge of an individual; section of personal history;
g) high dilettantism (criterion): possibility (if there is a will) at any moment to deepen one's
knowledge and go over to professionalism; "Maybe, dilettantism is also useful or rather
fruitful" (L. Gumilyov); non-militant dilettantism;
h) psychological peripherisation of instrumental knowledge;
i) professionalism as detailing combined with global systematization of causes and effects.* * *
| Please, give me dear sense in every minute translated into spaces of the spring. And that my old believe: a future’s mastering, in losing partly yet to mainly win it; please, give me, time, that is of mine and of all in area of this narrow ring, where love is center like a point-king, and where its beams unceasingly all clean out. Content of life is dimple in the chin, the usual kiss - the most important win, and our whispers - origin of music. But always there is a tiny need, like hidden poison soul swallows it and slowly dies so painfully amusing. |
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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