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<blockquote class="definition">Insight is sudden understanding or discovery arising as a consequence of [[Connection Experience]]'''Insight''' is the sudden realization of a truth, or the deeper realization of an already known truth, or the sudden solution to a previously intractable problem. Insight is a consequence of the [[Enhanced Intellectual Function]] that attends [[Connection Experience]]s.  
 
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<div class="definition">Insight is sudden deepened understanding or "deepended sense of significance"<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 332). Kindle Edition. </ref> that arises as a consequence of even weak forms of [[Connection Events]] '''Insight''' is an outcome of a positive and aligned, but weak and transient [[Connection]].
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==List of Connection Outcomes==
==List of Connection Outcomes==


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==Notes==
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In chapter one of his book [[This is It]], Alan Watts comments on the association of insight with [[Connection Experience]].<ref>Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote>
In chapter one of his book [[This is It]], Alan Watts comments on the association of insight with [[Connection Experience]].<ref>Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2IYr2rv</ref></blockquote>
 
[[William James]] notes "The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one. "I've heard that said all my life," we exclaim, "but I never realized its full meaning until now."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 332). Kindle Edition.</ref>
 
Jacques Hadamard provides several examples of mathematicians and other scientists who experienced insight. Of particular note is a a letter by Mozart where Mozart recounts his creative process, which seems to speak to weak connection and the insight generated from it.
 
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When I feel well and in a good humor, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish. Whence and how do they come? I do not know and I have nothing to do with it. Those which please me, I keep in my head and hum them; at least others have told me that I do so. Once I have my theme, another melody comes, linking itself to the first one, in accordance with the needs of the composition as a whole: the counterpoint, the part of each instrument, and all these melodic fragments at last produce the entire work. Then my soul is on fire with inspiration, if however nothing occurs to distract my attention. The work grows; I keep expanding it, conceiving it more and more clearly until I have the entire composition finished in my head though it may be long. Then my mind seizes it as a glance of my eye a beautiful picture or a handsome youth. It does not come to me successively, with its various parts worked out in detail, as they will be later on, but it is in its entirety that my imagination lets me hear it.<ref>Mozart letter in Hadamard, Jacques. An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field (p. 16). Read Books Ltd. Kindle Edition. </ref>
 
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Hadamard, Jacques. An Essay On The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field. Read Books, 2013.
 
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==References==
[[William James]] notes "The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one. "I've heard that said all my life," we exclaim, "but I never realized its full meaning until now."<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 332). Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2SQZ7Jv</ref>


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Rufus Jones: "Those who are finely sensitive to wider spheres of Reality impinging on their inner realm, and who correspond and co-operate with that More which seems continuous and conterminous with their lives, gain not only in capacity to correspond and co-operate, but also in power to overcome difficulties, and to put their lives into constructive service. We have on our hands experiences which have opened to individuals and to the race as a whole wider realms of being, experiences which have heightened the quality of life and which have given new energy of survival, and we are compelled to conclude, either that the personal self is a bottomless affair, carrying 1 Professor Royce has very well treated the social service of the Mystics in his World and the Individual, vol. i. pp. 85-87. within itself infinite unexplored chambers and undreamed of energies which sometimes come into play, or that / the personal self is bosomed on a larger Realm of Consciousness from which we draw our being into the bounds of individuality, and with which we may correspond. It has been, as we shall see, the contention of mystics in all ages that God Himself is the ground of the soul, and that in the deeps of their being all men partake of one central Divine Life. The facts, at any rate, all point in this direction."<ref>Jones, Rufus Matthew. Studies in mystical religion (Kindle Locations 386-396). Kindle Edition. </ref>


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Latest revision as of 15:11, 23 December 2022

Insight is sudden understanding or discovery arising as a consequence of a Connection Experience. Insight is the sudden realization of a truth, or the deeper realization of an already known truth, or the sudden solution to a previously intractable problem. Insight is a consequence of the Enhanced Intellectual Function that attends Connection Experiences.

List of Connection Outcomes

Connection Outcome > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union

Notes

In chapter one of his book This is It, Alan Watts comments on the association of insight with Connection Experience.[1]

William James notes "The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one. "I've heard that said all my life," we exclaim, "but I never realized its full meaning until now."[2]

Rufus Jones: "Those who are finely sensitive to wider spheres of Reality impinging on their inner realm, and who correspond and co-operate with that More which seems continuous and conterminous with their lives, gain not only in capacity to correspond and co-operate, but also in power to overcome difficulties, and to put their lives into constructive service. We have on our hands experiences which have opened to individuals and to the race as a whole wider realms of being, experiences which have heightened the quality of life and which have given new energy of survival, and we are compelled to conclude, either that the personal self is a bottomless affair, carrying 1 Professor Royce has very well treated the social service of the Mystics in his World and the Individual, vol. i. pp. 85-87. within itself infinite unexplored chambers and undreamed of energies which sometimes come into play, or that / the personal self is bosomed on a larger Realm of Consciousness from which we draw our being into the bounds of individuality, and with which we may correspond. It has been, as we shall see, the contention of mystics in all ages that God Himself is the ground of the soul, and that in the deeps of their being all men partake of one central Divine Life. The facts, at any rate, all point in this direction."[3]

Footnotes

  1. Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2IYr2rv
  2. James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 332). Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2SQZ7Jv
  3. Jones, Rufus Matthew. Studies in mystical religion (Kindle Locations 386-396). Kindle Edition.

Enhanced Intellectual Function