Realms sf' the Unconsci~eas:

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1 Realms sf' the Unconsci~eas: The Enchanted Frontier by V. V. NALIMOV Edifed by ROBERT G. COLODNY Illusfrafed by V. S. GRIBKOV Translated by A. V. YARKHO

2 Published by IS1 Press Libra- of Congrss Cnlnloging in Publirnlion Daln Nalimov. V. V. (Vasilii Varil'evich) Realms of the unconrciour. Translaced from [he Russian. "This volume is a logical extension al the two previous works of V. V. Nalimov: In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey and Facer olscicncen-prel. ~ - Includes bibliographical references and indcxer. I. Subconsciaurnerr. 2. Psychology-Philosophy. 3. Science-Philosophy. I. Colodny. ~obcrr Garland. II. Tillc. BF315.N ISBN All rights reserved. No pan of this publicalion may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval ryr- [em, or lranrmirred in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, phatographic, or magnetic, wilhoul prior written permission of 1hc publisher. Primed in [he Uniled Scales of America

3 Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART I. LANGUAGE OF PROBABILISTIC VISION OF THE WORLD CHAPTER 1. Probabilistic World: A Transition to Another Culture? Can Western Culture Have a Second Mediterranean? A. Stereotyped Vision of the World B. Probabilistic Vision of the World C. Can It Be ihat the Probabilistic Vision of the World Gives Rise to the Culture of Not-Doing? CHAPTER CHAPTER 3. Probabilistic Approach to Describing the Evolu- 2. Free Will in the Probabilistic World tion of Texts CHAPTER 4. The Language of Numerical Vision of the World in Ancient Times: Dialectics of the Continuous vs. Dis- crete in Plotinus's Tractatus On Numbers..... CHAPTER 5. On the Metaphorical Nature of the Language of Probabilistic Concepts PART 11. INTERNAL TIME CHAPTER 6. Time: A Dialogue with a Metaobserver.... CHAPTER 7. Time as Grammar of Texts of the World: Contemporary Concepts of Time vs. Plotinus's On Time and Ererniry Appendix: On the Life of Plotinus (According lo Porphyry)... xvi

4 vi Contents CHAPTER 8. Metaphorical Nature of the Concept of Psychological Time: Present-Momenmess of Past and Future PART 111. NOTHING CHAPTER 9. Semantic Vacuum as the Analogue of the Physical Vacuum: Comparative Ontology of Two Realities- Physical and Psychic CHAPTER 10. HOW Can We Contact Semantic Nothing?... PART IV. EXPERIMENT CHAPTER I I. Meditation A. Introduction: Meditation as an Entrance into Altered States of Consciousness B On the Meditation Practice C Meditation in Eastern Christianity D. Meditation in Medieval Europe: Sermons of Meister Eckhan E. Dream as a State Close to Meditation F. Knowledge as an Experience G Creative Scientific Activity as Unconscious Meditation... H. Meditation as a Journey Insideoneself I. About Those Lost in the Depths of Their Consciousness... J. Taxonomy of Consciousness K. Can the Unconscious Be Socially Controlled? L. Indivisible Integrity of Consciousness CHAPTER 12. Symbols A Symbols in the Variety of Their Manifestations B. Simple Geometric Symbols C Mandalas D. Concluding Remarks CHAPTER 13. Experimental Study of the Unconscious: Revelation of Semantic Fields Underlying Words of Everyday Language A. Introduction B. Experimental Procedure C Choice of the Key Words D. Experimental Results E. Certain Considerations on the Validity of our Experimental Results F. Comparison of Our Experiment with the Results Obtained by Grof G. Comparison of Our Results with the Experience of Musical Therapy H. Comparison of thc Semantic Fields of our Experiment with the Semantics of the Explanatory Dictionary I. Concluding Remarks

5 Conrenrs CHAPTER 14. An Experienceof Meditation Hermeneutics.. CHAPTER 15. On the Roads of Time A. Experimental Procedure B. Verbal Records C. Paintings D. Comments E. Concluding Remarks PART V. REMARKS ON THE WORLD HOLlSTlClTY.. CHAPTER 16. Belief in Reincarnation as a Projection of the Idea of Human Participation in the Indivisible Integrity of the World CHAPTER 17. Science and Religion: Is There Room for the Complementarity Principle? A. Formulation of the Problcm B. A Possible Solution CHAPTER 18. Dialectics of the Open End: Comments on What Has Been Said Above A. Vision of the World Through a Number of Complementary Essences B. The World's Integrity and Human Participation in It.... C Questioning as a Revelation of the Semantic Universe.... D. Continuum-a Model for Semantic Integrity: an Urge to Divide the Continuum-a Model for a Conflict E. What Is the Mcaningof Everything Said Above?..... References Index of Names Index of Subjects Color plates follow p. 196 vii