Intuition and the Creation of a Better World
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This selection of quotations explores intuitive perception from many different points of view.
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An intuitive mode that is intellectually oriented is characteristically directed toward understanding or insight. This orientation is contrasted with analytic modes, which are product-goal oriented. The methods we use in an intuitive mode are selected with the hope of reaching a deeper understanding of the situation we are in. Even the algorithms we use are applied heuristically. If this is the right method, we say, then we shall arrive at the right answer. If the result is unsatisfactory, we discard the algorithm as inappropriate. If the result is satisfactory, we still return to the original situation to reflect on the source of this satisfaction. Why did it work? Will it work again? With what limitations? The quest is for meaning, understanding, enlightenment. Success in an analytic mode is realized in an answer: a proof, a numerical result, a sustained hypothesis, a finished poem. Success in an intuitive mode is realized in seeing, creating a picture in our minds, understanding.
Nel Noddings & Paul J. Shore , Awakening the Inner Eye : Intuition in Education . New York, Teachers College Press, 1984, pp. 80 - 81
The current shift in science's concept of the world from a lifeless rock to an interconnected and quasi-living universe has intense meaning and significance for our times. The concept of a subtly interconnected world, of a whispering pond in and through which we are intimately linked to each other and to the universe, assimilated by our intellect and embraced by our heart, is part of humanity's response to the challenges that we now face in common. Our separation from each other and from nature is at the root of many of our problems; overcoming them calls for a recovery of our neglected, hut never entirely forgotten, bonds and connections. Unexpectedly but perhaps not entirely accidentally, the vision emerging in the workshops of the avant-garde sciences could inspire ways of thinking and acting that would go a long way toward facilitating current efforts to transform the specter of a global crisis into the splendor of a humane and sustainable civilization.
Ervin Laszlo, The Whispering Pond : A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science. Rockport, MA, Element Books, 1996, pp. 224 - 225
SUBJECT INDEX
Creativity, Imagination & Vision
Cultivating the Intuition
Definitions
Inspiration & Dreams
Intuition in Architecture
Intuition in Science
Intuitive Service
Nature of the Intuition
Straight Knowledge
AUTHOR INDEX
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Abdi, M.H.
Agni Yoga
Alberts, Ton
Anderson, William
Ariyaratne, A.T.
Assagioli, Roberto
Aurobindo, Sri
Bache, Christopher
Bachofen, J.J.
Bailey, Alice
Baring, Anne
Bergman, Ciel
Bernbaum, Edwin
Brunton, Paul
Capra, Fritjof
Carr, H. Wildon
Coelho, Paulo
Collins, Cecil
de Chardin, Teilhard
Eco, Umberto
Einstein, Albert
Ferrucci, Piero
Finser, Torin
Fox, Matthew
Gawain, Shakti
Goodwin, Brian
Govinda, Lama Anagarika
Hall, Sir Ernest
Hamilton, Craig
Havel, Vaclav
Heidenreich, Alfred
Hillman, James
Hoyle, Fred
Humphreys, Christmas
Intuition Magazine
Intuition Magazine Online
Jacka, Judy
Jefferies, Richard
Jung, Carl Gustav
Kamenetz, Rodger
Khan, Hazrat Inayat
Kokoschka, Oscar
Lorimer, David
Lovelock, James
Macy, Joanna
Okri, Ben
Oxford Dictionary
Pascal, Blaise
Plato
Plotinus
Raine, Kathleen
Redfield, James
Robinson, Edward
Roerich, Helena
Salinger, J.D.
Sardello, Robert
Shah, Idries
Shelley, Percy.Bysshe.
Smith, Huston
Soutar, William
Sumedho, Ajhan
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tarnas, Richard
Tchaikovsky
Thakar, Vimala
van der Post, Laurens
Vaughan, Frances
Vinoba Bhave
Whitmore, Diana
Whyte, David
Wickes, Frances
Zukav, Gary
Pineault, Annie
Batchelor, Stephen
Needleman, Jacob
Hyde, Lewis
Steiner, Rudolf
Rogers, Carl
Godwin, Robert W.
Harpur, Patrick
Abhishiktananda, Swami
Noddings, Nel & Shore, Paul J.
Laszlo, Ervin
