{"id":1233,"date":"2026-01-09T03:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:23:26","slug":"noetic-insight-and-challenges-to-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Noetic Insight and Challenges to Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bainbridge Island, WA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unless you are at home in the metaphor\u2026unless you have had your proper education in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values: you don\u2019t know the metaphor in its strength and its weakness. \u2013 Robert Frost<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is difficult to get the news from poems \/ yet men die miserably everyday for lack \/ of what is found there. \u2013 William Carlos Williams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know more than we can say.<\/em> \u2013 Michael Polanyi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noetic literacy offers schools a pathway to direct, unmediated learning experiences and subject-object unity that integrates polarized perspectives (Kirk J. Schneider, Polarized Mind, 2013). Noetic consciousness is rich in archetypal structures and symbols of \u2018wild\u2019 or \u2018far-out\u2019 mythic, folkloric, ritual associations, and artistic transformations carried forth by hunches, intuitions, visions, epiphanies, revelations, performances, and dreams. Because noetic literacy with a healing education involves tacit, personal knowledge of informal and non-dual states of consciousness that are ostensibly ineffable, educators encounter significant challenges to their teaching and scholarship when using a \u201clinear, argumentative, and critical style\u201d (K.E. Lorena, Subjective & Aesthetic Interface, An Inquiry into Transformed Subjectivities,” Academia.edu<\/a>, 2013). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge for scholars comes from the need to disclose the fluid, both\/and<\/em> nature of noetic consciousness when using academic prose and its binary either\/or<\/em> logic. Noetic consciousness constitutes what Ken Wilber (Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality 1995) refers to as \u201cvision logic,\u201d a form of cognition that \u201ccan hold in mind contradictions, it can unify opposites, it is dialectical and non-linear, and it weaves together what otherwise appears to be incompatible notions.\u201d Noetic understanding is not a ready-made science but a perspicacious knowing, an intuitive insight that cannot be well communicated by conventional means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This essay asks whether logical discourse and related natural science procedures constitute the one and only valid language to describe meaning making structures and events of the human life-world. When addressing non-discursive, perspicacious understandings, scholars have professional access to and training with only discursive language. What might be lost, missed, or otherwise modified when we exclusively utilize logico-scientific language for lived experience and phenomena ostensibly mythopoetic in nature? A new language of logos-eros and concept-image that is capable of addressing the omnijective (i.e., objective and subjective) qualities of noetic understanding must ultimately be employed by scholars as artist-intellectuals writing about cognitive diversity and epistemological pluralism, and ineffable phenomena of the psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It must be understood that I do not present in my healing education initiative and human completion project noetic principles as definitive rules or formulae. This is not possible, as the mythopoetic nature of noesis <\/em>defies separation through language-use into discrete constituent elements (i.e., ontic<\/em> knowledge) and cannot be fully disclosed as self-evident by logical exposition (i.e., apodictic<\/em>). Paradoxically, this essay, at least in very small part, is an ontic and discursive language-construct yearning to explore noetic, supra-rational knowing and the nature of consciousness transformation beyond self-actualization. Academic language is significantly different from and less accurate when describing the phenomenology of noetic consciousness. Here lies the issue of translatability. What do I mean by this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scholarly works are generated, contested, and disseminated within discursive disciplines and their technologically tacit knowledge. The academy\u2019s language of knowing originates and is negotiated within dominant academic models, which today means science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The expected language of academic knowing is rational, disinterested, objective, and ‘value free’ and characteristic of number-based sciences. The position of \u2018semantic positivism\u2019 (Philip Wheelright, Metaphor and Reality, 1968) has it that all viable research inquiries must proceed in a scientific manner, using logico-scientific language. On the other hand, the natural \u2018language\u2019 of noesis<\/em> is \u2018poetry\u2019, and it addresses an omnijective<\/em> ( i.e. unity of objectivity and subjectivity) reality that embraces supra-rational, numinous, spiritual, and ethical elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The language of noesis <\/em>speaks of and to the emotional effect of dreams, visions, revelations, intuitions, altered states of consciousness. It is wisdom of nothing less than everything – specters of high strangeness, deep obfuscation, argot of soul. In my conceptual framework on noetic learning experiences, the ontic and poetic languages of concepts and images, numbers, and symbols must cooperate in mutual service of overcoming subject-object divisions. The language of academic apodictic knowing can touch the soul of mind; but it is the poetry of noesis <\/em>that touches the soul of soul. It is certainly the case that my present explorations of noesis only begins to address the issue of scholarship that synthesizes mythopoetic language (see my “Even God,” Academia.edu<\/strong><\/a>, 2025) and <\/em>academic parlance, something akin to Schoenberg\u2019s sprechstimme<\/em>, a voice between logos<\/em> and poesis<\/em>, image and concept, speech and song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD Bainbridge Island, WA Unless you are at home in the metaphor\u2026unless you have had your proper education in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values: you don\u2019t know the metaphor in its strength and its weakness. \u2013 Robert Frost It is difficult … Continue reading Noetic Insight and Challenges to Language<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterrphd.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}