The Creative Irrational - The Key to Individual Consciousness and Human Success - Table of Contents - free online
In contrast to the prevailing Western view, humans are irrational - and they have always been since the beginning of our evolution. We mean irrational in the Jungian sense of “something beyond logic”. In this sense it is linked to the highest strivings of human being. Our possibilities for spirituality and the transcendent are what separates us from other animals. From cave paintings to Gobekli Tepe, to the Egyptian Pharaohs, to St. Paul, to Plato, to the great modern physicist Einstein, we see that all human higher moments have resulted from the creatively irrational.
At this point in time as we discuss re-engineering to address the world-threatening problems resulting from our systematizing efforts, it is essential that we personally and societally reacquaint ourselves with our creative irrational and strive for our higher purposes. More money, leisure time and consumer goods have doomed us and our planet. What can our essential human characteristic - the creative irrational - contribute to addressing the situation?
In our proposed work we are pleased to build upon a perspective that more clearly connects ancient efforts with the modern world. We follow human development by tracing anew the persistent efforts of societies that have evolved worldwide over tens of thousands of years. They lead us to insights that we assemble into a new perspective that supports our renewed striving for transcendence from ordinary strictly rational perceptions. Our manuscript is designed to explore a new path that now appears.