I have come to realize that everything that can be truly understood can be revealed through a parable. Both the parable itself and the psychological or spiritual phenomenon to which it refers are subject to the same principles. Anyone who wishes to transcend the boundaries of individual disciplines or subjects must recognize the permeable, underlying creative principles uniting them all. Illustrating through a parable is a power of imagination. It is not arbitrary fantasizing, nor a random juxtaposition of individual phenomena, but a formative power committed to the creative principle. A parable therefore embodies truth and carries within it the potential to become reality. Two illustrative parables for thinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Thinking is like driving a car. Most people \u201cdrive\u201d a specific model whose design is already complete. While driving, our attention is ordinarily focused on our surroundings. But could we conceive of a way of thinking that, while driving, simultaneously redesigns the engine to adapt to changing terrain\u2014swamps, mountains, plains? Can thinking be cracked open like a walnut, transforming the hitherto hidden black-box process of thought into a transparent one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Ordinary thinking is like a shaping hand that molds the contents of sensory and spiritual experience into thoughts. But how might we develop a form of thinking that possesses many flexible feelers, like those of a snail\u2014feelers that can be freely imbued with and guided by the will, that are actively forming and at the same time serving as organs of perception, enabling us to tentatively encounter and recognize an object of knowledge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska I have come to realize that everything that can be truly understood can be revealed through a parable. Both the parable itself and the psychological or spiritual phenomenon to which it refers are subject to the same principles. Anyone who wishes to transcend the boundaries of individual disciplines or subjects must recognize the permeable, underlying creative principles uniting them all. Illustrating through a parable is a power of imagination. It is not arbitrary fantasizing, nor a random juxtaposition of individual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12175,"featured_media":71986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796],"tags":[11791,11792,8819],"class_list":["post-72229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","tag-ausgabe-17-2026-en","tag-english-issue-19-2026","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72234,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229\/revisions\/72234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Photo<\/strong> David Vilches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"