Nonrational Knowing

#12B NON-RATIONAL KNOWING

More than most people do, I trust intuition, gut feeling, instinct, and unconscious knowledge— where I respect my brain’s power of pattern-matching. Not discounting dreams and synchronicity to the extent others do, I value the collective unconscious and brief glimpses I’ve had into Reality “with the curtain pulled back.” More wholistic than reductionistic, I appreciate what can't be measured. I find science limiting. I'm a visual thinker, sensitive to environmental cues—sights, sounds, smells, tactile insights—and to feelings! I’m especially alert to signs of danger and am good at detecting deception

More Information About This Worldview Theme--note this table is under construction, last update November 2023
a diamond WV Theme...		...individual <---> knowledge
the theme is paired with: #6B Scientific Method to make Choice #10 in the Choices We Make cards
this theme as presented in older version of theme structure: is this theme new to version 4?--YES
click to look at the Project Worldview Cultural Literacy Encyclopedia Related Words, Beliefs, Background articles for the above choice
Project Worldview authored discussion, Worldview Watch related issues, songs, etc.
Worldview Watch #75: Bashar of Essassani and Bashar al-Assad: UFO Religious Celebrity and War Criminal
The TFJD Oracle: An Oracle for the 21st Century
"Non-Rational Knowing--My Personal Connection" by Stephen P. Cook, chapter 5 pp 181-84 in Choices We Make in the Global Village

Wikipedia articles related to this theme:
intuition	creativity		dream
instinct	genetic memory		collective unconscious
innatism	synchronicity		rejects scientism
psychic	extra-sensory perception		antireductionism
	mediumship / channeling

worldview internal inconsistency related: Strongly valuing this theme and any of the themes in the list below is a contradiction:
#1B Skeptic	#5A Scientific Materialism	#6B Scientific Method	#18B Rational, Dispassionate

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #12B: Non-Rational Knowing

Rationalism vs. Empiricism (from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, July 6 2017)

Serendipity and Synchronicity (posted on Mitch Medical website March 6 2021)

Episode 128: Intuition: Non-Rational Knowing (you tube video Sept 9 2020)

“I Didn't Know If I Believed In The Afterlife. Then My Dead Father Sent Me A Message.” by Noah Michelson (story on HuffPost October 29 2021)

Knowledge Without Reason--six types of non-rational knowledge (posted on mythoslogos Sept 13 2020)

We know what we know (even when we don’t want to) By Aria Braccia (Oct 17 2019 news item)

Synchronicity and Meaning: Awakening and Expanding Curiosity and Understanding by Marney Makridakis (posted on creativity-portal.com November 8, 2018)

Atom, Archetype, and the Invention of Synchronicity by Maria Popova (article posted on Brain Pickings March 2017)

Carl Jung, part 6: Synchronicity by Mark Vernon (from The Guardian July 2011)

Assegai by Wilbur Smith (read this 2009 novel for account of Lusima and her African female shaman’s capabilities)

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"As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid spending your "reality cash" too early, before you have seen everything. "
from Coming of Age in the Global Village, by Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.