Henry Greenwood Bugbee's "The Inward Morning"

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This paper explains that Henry Greenwood Bugbee in "The Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form" states that meaning is found in "the rhythm of daily life" when people attend to ideas as they come along. The author feels that moments of insight come from looking at the whole and spotting a pattern instead of breaking experiences down and analyzing each little bit. The paper relates that, when a person becomes so absorbed in his or her work that he or she completely forgets everything else--the time, personal problems and sense of self or ego--then he or she has found his or her "calling" and feel most authentic.

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"Bigbee (1958, 1976) compares reflection to tilling the soil and turning it over and over. He is in favor of reflection, of course, but he warns that "a sense of estrangement from the truth that is one's own" can be the result if we go about it the wrong way. It reminds me of something my grandmother told me. She had Freudian psychoanalysis when she was young, and she said it was like stirring a big pot of garbage over and over and calling it soup. She was old when she said that. I think the problem is analysis itself as a method for getting at the truth."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bugbee, H. (1958, 1976). The inward morning: A philosophical exploration in journal form. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press.
• Talbot, M. (1991). The holographic universe. New York: Harper Collins.

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