Various topics discussed in this group like knowledge paradigms,
subjective objective knowledge, intuition and reason all point to two
paradigms of knowing. One in which there is no division about
subjective objective or reason and intuition, knower and knowledge etc
and one which divides, fragments and compartmentalizes. One is the
rationality paradigm or reasoning frame practiced by the western main
stream and the other practiced by indigenous cultures all over. It
looks like this is the practice also of spiritual masters - Budha,
Dalai Lama, J Krishnamurthi etc whose primary concern or enquiry were
about the knower, process of knowing and the knowledge. This may be
the reason why many scientists like David Bolhm etc took lot of
interest in what J Krishnamurthi had to say and why scientist in
consciousness studies, psychology, quantum physics etc are conversing
with Dalai lama.
The western main stream rationalist world view has considered
intuition as irrational for a long time and it is just within last few
years that this has changed to some extent. The illiterate people or
the 'sense cognites' have always used intuition as the primary way of
knowing. With the takeover of reason as the mode of knowing intuition
was banished. Reason is a conscious act of ego where as intuition lies
outside ego and conscious wanting. Reason banished everything
intangible to it and dealt only what could be proved.
Traditional knowledge and modern knowledge
Modern Education has shifted the center of knowledge from Nature to
human, from collective to ego, from heart to intellect / mind, from
intuition to reason, from experience to information, from holistic to
compartmental. The effects of the modern education on the individual
are compartmentalization, Alienation, Intellectualization,
Conceptualization etc. The Larger and more dangerous effects of modern
education on the planet are that we have destroyed its ecosystems,
finished non-renewable wealth, made extinct many animals, plants etc.
The fundamental difference between indigenous cultures and the western
culture is that the indigenous cultures uses intuition as framework
for creating, transmitting and sustaining knowledge and the west uses
reason. Through the present educational system this shift is being
brought about thus cutting us off from our biological and natural
roots.
https://www.academia.edu/3583593/Traditional_knowledge_-_or_Natures_knowledge
I found some interesting sites on intuition. Please see the links.
Exploring the Phenomena of Intuition from Multiple Perspectives
Experiments on Intuitive Knowing
Dean Radin, PhD
Our Human Relationship to the Earth
Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD
Oxytocin – the Hormone of Connection
Kerstin Uvas-Moberg MD, PhD
Panel:
Elisabet Sahtouris PhD, Evolutionary biologist, futurist, author and
consultant on Living Systems Design. Our Human Relationship to the
Earth, Planetary Level
Dean Radin PhD, Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Experiments on Intuitive Knowing, Quantum Level
Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg MD, PhD, Professor of Physiology Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm Sweden. Oxytocin—the Hormone of Connection,
Biochemical Level
This panel looks at 3 different Big Picture aspects of intuition and
possible explanations.
• Elisabet Sahtouris reflects on the relationship between the science
and the natural to date; particularly how Western science has
suppressed inner knowing, thus losing ½ of our capacity to know. Dr.
Sahtouris identifies signs of greater integration today.
• Dean Radin [quantum physics] reports non-local information exchange
at the quantum level, the role of consciousness, and the boundaries
between physics and the psyche. Show how at individual level we may
not have super powers, but maybe we do at the collective level.
• Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg [biochemistry] addresses the chemistry of the
body focusing primarily on oxytocin, mirror neurons, and other means
the body has of establishing relationship and communication.
And some interesting quotations.
" When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it
advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters,
however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision
should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In
the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I
think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." –Sigmund Freud
Anne Lamott‘s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop
the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn’t nourish
you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind
is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true.
Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
Steve Jobs reflects in Walter Isaacson’s much-discussed biography of him :
" The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like
we do, they use their intuition instead, and the intuition is far more
developed than in the rest of the world… Intuition is a very powerful
thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big
impact on my work.
Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic, it is
learned and it is the great achievement of Western civilization. In
the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something
else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways is not.
That’s the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.”
Jinan
On 23/05/2014, G. Mauricio Mejía <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> After reading Don’s-started thread on intuitive and analytical thinking in
> design practice. I wonder some of these issues but applied to design
> research. Lastly, I have been reading proposals for creating a research
> program in art, design, and architecture within the Colombian Department of
> Science and Technology (Colciencias).
>
> In major research, analytical thinking dominates the research activities. In
> some emergent and debated approaches to design research (e.g.
> research-creation, research through design, practice-led research…), some
> folks seem to claim for greater recognition of the role of intuition on the
> research process. I don’t think a creation or design product alone is enough
> to count as an outcome of systematic academic research. However, how could
> designers or artists’ intuition have a greater role in systematic knowledge
> production? Is this possible at all? Could anyone recommend me references
> related to this issue?
>
> I am also interested in any pointers to epistemology and methodology in
> research-creation. I already reviewed one of Ken’s papers (Friedman, 2000).
>
> Please note that I am specifically interested in systematic knowledge
> production, not in knowledge production as a result of reflective practice.
>
>
> Thank you.
> Mauricio
>
> Friedman, K. (2000). Creating design knowledge: from research into practice.
> Presented at the IDATER 2000 Conference, Loughborough: Loughborough
> University.
>
>
> G. Mauricio Mejía, PhD
> Profesor Asociado Universidad de Caldas
> http://twitter.com/mmejiaramirez
>
>
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