|
|
|
|
CONTRIBUTORS:
|
|
|
JOURNAL:
|
Revision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation,
24(3),
39 -
45.
|
|
|
|
YEAR:
|
2002
|
|
PUB TYPE:
|
Journal Article
|
|
SUBJECT(S):
|
Jungian archetype; curiosity as a trait; shamanism;
scholars as a group
|
|
DISCIPLINE:
|
Psychology
|
|
HTTP:
|
|
|
LANGUAGE:
|
English
|
|
PUB ID:
|
103-385-454
(Last edited on
2003/04/08 09:42:44 GMT-6)
|
|
SPONSOR(S):
|
|
|
ABSTRACT:
The inquisitive mind in its broadest sense has Paleolithic roots that Western civilization has codified but did not invent. Universities, institutes, laboratories, foundations and publication programs are the results, not the causes, of the human compulsion to explore the borders of the known. The motivation for inquiry comes primarily from the inner drive of a curious individual. Consistently curious people are a special personality type. Shamsn of the present and by extension of the past were the ones self-selected to ask the questions and find the answers to them. Modern scholars are part of this archetype. They share with Paleolithic shamans certain habits and traits: mediation, isolation, marginality, self-selection, apprenticeship, peaks of insight, mental imagery, neurosis and veneration. A scholarly trajectory is an aspect of the eternal life of the species. Individuals with intense curiosity are the recipients of a neuropsychic system that manifests itself through evolutionary sedimentation of an ancient phenomenon.
|
|
|
|
STATISTICS
|
|
Click on # to view
|
|
Citations
|
|
0
|
|
References
|
|
0
|
|
Comments
|
|
0
|
|
Quality
|
|
0/0.00
|
|
Interest
|
|
0/0.00
|
|
View(er)s
|
|
6/488
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prev |
Next |
|
