I'm afraid I don't have much to report on her activities per se, aside from that sense of presence, which I nonetheless think is a real thing.
If I remember right, this idea of "inborn knowledge" resurfaces in various ways, even winding its way into Christianity. Plotinus has his "nous," which seems to be the faculty of the soul whereby an individual can discern divine reality, and this seems to get absorbed into the vocabulary of the Desert Fathers, where the "Intellect" (same term) takes on a highly technical meaning, namely "the highest faculty in man, through which—provided it is purified—he knows God or the inner essences or principles...of created things by means of direct apprehension or spiritual perception." (This from the Philokalia glossary, emphases mine.) It seems Thomas Merton even makes an allusion to this idea when he speaks of two "lenses" of the soul, one which regards "exterior" things, and the other, the "inward soul," which is imbued with "spiritual intelligence."
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Date: 2022-08-11 11:11 am (UTC)If I remember right, this idea of "inborn knowledge" resurfaces in various ways, even winding its way into Christianity. Plotinus has his "nous," which seems to be the faculty of the soul whereby an individual can discern divine reality, and this seems to get absorbed into the vocabulary of the Desert Fathers, where the "Intellect" (same term) takes on a highly technical meaning, namely "the highest faculty in man, through which—provided it is purified—he knows God or the inner essences or principles...of created things by means of direct apprehension or spiritual perception." (This from the Philokalia glossary, emphases mine.) It seems Thomas Merton even makes an allusion to this idea when he speaks of two "lenses" of the soul, one which regards "exterior" things, and the other, the "inward soul," which is imbued with "spiritual intelligence."