Tim:
Yes, "rational" was perhaps not the best word to use re clairvoyance or experiences of synchronicity, etc. Bland does believe intuition is a rational process, beyond the liminal threshold of thought, because it seems to manifest itself mainly in the form of a conclusion, a decision, a judgement. Clairvoyance would seem to be a perceptual rather than a rational "process", because it apparently manifests more as an image or a "vision". But...admittedly Bland has no personal experience of clairvoyance or clairvoyants, so he may be speaking out of turn here.
Bland does not mean "rational", btw, in the sense of rigidly ordered logic, but rather as the process of weighing together various sources of information and assigning them relative value. The human heart, we all know, is not logical...but it is rational, in that sense...it is evaluative. That is how Bland meant the word. |
