Perspectives on Synchronicity, Inspiration, and the Soul - Hardcover

Sneller, Rico

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1527555054 ISBN 13: 9781527555051

Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the notion of the human psyche (â ~soulâ (TM)) and its continuing usefulness in the background of the ongoing and always accelerating techno-scientific revolution. The main argument here follows the assumption that this revolution, while not necessarily being a threat to humankind, is often blind or ignorant as to its subject, the â ~human beingâ (TM).

In the first chapters, the reader is invited to reflect on the notion of â ~thinkingâ (TM) as a phenomenon of consciousness that transcends merely â ~having thoughtsâ (TM). Relating thinking to consciousness requires reconsidering the phenomena of â ~inspirationâ (TM) and â ~ecstasyâ (TM). Provided that such a thing as â ~inspirationâ (TM) exists, it makes sense to revise the solipsist or substantialist account often given of the human mind. The book defines inspiration as a â ~clairvoyance of oneâ (TM)s psycheâ (TM), and ecstasy as the experience of this clairvoyance.

Next, a case is made for synchronicity experiences as a key to a better understanding of the human psyche. While being enigmatic all throughout, synchronicity experiences, both on the individual and on the collective level, help overcome both subject/object and body/mind dualisms. It is not likely, though, that the solution they could offer will be readily accepted by (what is called) â ~scienceâ (TM) today, since it challenges one of the latterâ (TM)s basic premises, â ~causalityâ (TM). As a more concrete example of a condensed synchronicity experience, the author dwells on â ~physiognomyâ (TM).

In the final chapter, death and suffering are discussed as extreme, and therefore relevant, experiences of consciousness. The book interprets death in terms of â ~enhanced subliminalityâ (TM), and â ~sufferingâ (TM) as unconscious resistance against maturing.

Generally, this book explores a psycho-philosophical tradition, rooted in Romantic thinking (from Schelling and Schopenhauer until Klages and Jung), which has hitherto been unjustly neglected, if not repressed, by mainstream materialism and positivism. It makes a strong case for an intellectual account of the soul.

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Rico Sneller has been teaching Continental Philosophy and Ethics at Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, and the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He is the Vice President of the global think-tank and network organisation APGC, and responsible for strategic planning and policy-making for the network as a whole. His current research focuses on exceptional states of consciousness in relation to philosophy. With Hans Gerding and Hein van Dongen, he published Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert: Philosophers on Telepathy and Other Exceptional Experiences (2014). Together with Mahmoud Masaeli, he edited a series of books on global ethics, development, and spirituality.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1527555054
• ISBN 13: 9781527555051
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 389
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