The Creative Vision

Abstract

By reading an early nineteenth-century text whose ideas originated more than fifteen hundred years ago, we may learn not only what people once knew and believed to be an answer to man’s ever present problematique, “the problematic nature of an evolving situationwhich beco es manifest in ever-changing elusive aspects which may become transitorily recognized as ‘problems’” (Jantsch and Waddington, 1976, p. 37); we may also realize what we now believe to be an answer may need some rethinking. Maybe we must take seriously the paradox that the old is not so old and the new not so new.13 On this mystical note we shall conclude our introduction to the creative vision of ourselves/