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6. The cultivation of visual (extra-logical) thinking (in which continuity of consciousness is more adequately represented) could be directed to overcome the destructive tradition of dismemberment of the Universe through various dichotomies: thought vs. feeling, spirit vs. matter, content vs. form, etc.
The suggested culture of visual, extra-logical, thinking is not an unattainable return to a pre-logical one. Nor it is the rejection of logical culture. Rather, it means going beyond the boundaries of the latter.
7. I will argue that besides indivisible presentation of all the human psychic forces in it, the life-asserting message of extra-logical thinking gains its character from its perpetually creative and dynamic nature. Its "knowledge" is not a symbolic and frozen designation of reality, as it is within the boundaries of traditional, logical, thinking, but rather a living contact with the world.
8. Here, apparently, we can find one of the means by which today's apathetic Homo Sapiens might move himself toward the more vital Homo Aestheticus, if an aesthetic act is understood as it should be – "the highest act of thinking, encompassing all constituents of thought" (G. Hegel).
