04-17-2011, 12:00 AM
Metanoia is the Greek word for conversion: a "fundamental transformation of mind." It is the process by which concepts are reorganized. Metanoia is a specialized, intensified adult form of the same world view development found shaping the mind of the infant.
Formally associated with religion, metanoia proves to be the way which all genuine education takes place.
Metanoia is a seisure by the discipline given total attention, and "a restructuring of the attending mind. The reshaping of the mind is the principle key to the reality function.
The same procedure found in the world viewdevelopment of the child, the metanoia of the advanced student, or the conversion to a religion, can be traced as well in the question answer process, or the proposing and eventual filling of an "empty category" in science.
The asking of an ultimately serious question, which means to be seized in turn by an ultimately serious quest, reshapes our concepts in favor of the kind of perception needed to "see" the desired answer.
To be given ears to hear and eyes to see is to have one's concepts changed in favor of the discipline. A question determines and brings about its answer just as the desired end shapes the nature of the kind of questions asked.
Joseph Chilton Pearce//The Crack in the Cosmic Egg New York: Pocket Book, 1973 // passage for discussion:
Formally associated with religion, metanoia proves to be the way which all genuine education takes place.
Metanoia is a seisure by the discipline given total attention, and "a restructuring of the attending mind. The reshaping of the mind is the principle key to the reality function.
The same procedure found in the world viewdevelopment of the child, the metanoia of the advanced student, or the conversion to a religion, can be traced as well in the question answer process, or the proposing and eventual filling of an "empty category" in science.
The asking of an ultimately serious question, which means to be seized in turn by an ultimately serious quest, reshapes our concepts in favor of the kind of perception needed to "see" the desired answer.
To be given ears to hear and eyes to see is to have one's concepts changed in favor of the discipline. A question determines and brings about its answer just as the desired end shapes the nature of the kind of questions asked.
Joseph Chilton Pearce//The Crack in the Cosmic Egg New York: Pocket Book, 1973 // passage for discussion: