The Peril in Thinking: and other essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517560409)

Modern consciousness, in the West, is structured as two domains: ordinary consciousness and visionary experience, inspiration, or what I call here, living thinking. Over centuries we have learned to privilege ordinary consciousness exclusively and the domain of living thinking has slipped into oblivion. Yet, the upheavals of cultural transformation, or paradigm shifts, always seem to originate in inceptive moments, when living thinking appears or breaks through a threshold into the ordinary consciousness of certain individuals. These people are then "given" the task of bringing new meaning across the threshold into empirical reality, through some kind of art form. We are in such a time of upheaval once more, and many individuals are, one way or another, making contact with this threshold. This is where the peril lies!

Author: John C. Woodcock
ISBN-10: 1517560403
ISBN-13: 9781517560409
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2015
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.37d