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They acquired their knowledge about them in three ways: (i) direct experience or intuition (ii) intellectual reasoning or analysis and (iii) authority or scriptures containing records by those who delved and realised deeper into the problems and had complete knowledge. The authoritative knowledge has been most threatened by the scientific community since Descartes time in the west while it has been elaborated and extended in most cases in the east.
Human mind is capable of two kinds of knowledge or modes of consciousness which could be expressed in terms of (i) analytic or rational and (ii) psychic or intuitive. In current terms, thay may be called scientific and philosophic or religious. Their characteristics are given in table 1. Despite their different nature, however, it is found that as both types of knowledges occur in both the fields, there always seems to be some element of rationality in intuitive knowledge and vice-versa. However, the reliability of these knowledges in comparable according to current scientific opinions.
Table 1 seems so indicate that these two ways of knowledge seem to be quite different from each other in their most characteristics such as nature, object and representation ctc. though they use parallel methodology. The scientists were opposed to intuitive knowledge, even, called it sometimes impossible, but researches done in the last 100 years have softened their minds and they are accepting its probablity. Kit Pedler has shown that reliable proof for telepathy, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences and psycho-kinesis are now available. Moreover, it seems that they have moved towards a stage about construcuing a picture of reality from sophisticated instru: mentation and mathematicalised practical genius which seems quite akin to the intuitive constructs. Moreover, they have realised that their intellectualism seems to have attained a limit for finding out basic building blocks' of matter. Hence, they are getting more philosophers than scientific. In fact, it is now opined that the two ways of knowing indicate the complementarity of mind, the modes of being inside the person like the complementarity principle of physics.
The scientific type of knowledge acquired with the help of sepses, instruments and intellect. However, some non-sensieal knowledge has also been possible in this area (X-rays, radio-activity, sub-atomies), of course through instruments This is termed as direct knowledge, repeatable by almost all qualified and thus independant of on observers. In contrast, intuitive knowledge has strong internal and individual element expressed in terms of
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