{"id":2658,"date":"2021-10-17T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/10\/feel-illuminated\/"},"modified":"2021-10-17T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:49:58","slug":"feel-illuminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/10\/feel-illuminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Illuminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perennial theme explored in these posts is the tension between how we apprehend the world: intellectually versus emotionally \u2013 cognitive vs. pre-cognitive is how we\u2019ve often labeled it \u2013&#0160;and we make the case that the most powerful and meaningful creative expressions are those that evoke a pre-cognitive emotional response.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s filmmaker Werner Herzog weighing in on this theme, using poetry as an example:<\/p>\n<p><em>You will find that in great poetry, when you listen or read a great poem it will occur to you very abruptly that there\u2019s a deep, enormous truth in this poem and you feel illuminated, and you don\u2019t have to analyze, and you don\u2019t have to read lots of literature about this poem, you just know it instantly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And why do you know it? Because there\u2019s an ecstasy of truth that is in this poem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k1W5wAGzCpU\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0282e129bb3f200b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M_0207\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0282e129bb3f200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0282e129bb3f200b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"M_0207\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perennial theme explored in these posts is the tension between how we apprehend the world: intellectually versus emotionally \u2013 cognitive vs. pre-cognitive is how we\u2019ve often labeled it \u2013&#0160;and we make the case that the most powerful and meaningful creative expressions are those that evoke a pre-cognitive emotional response. Here\u2019s filmmaker Werner Herzog weighing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}