Invoking the Beyond
Collins, Paul D. / Collins, Phillip D. The Gnostic revival of the Enlightenment witnessed the erection of what could be called the "Kantian Rift, " an epistemological barrier between external reality and the mind of the percipient. Arbitrarily proclaimed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, this barrier rendered the world as a terra incognita. Suddenly, the world "out there" was deemed imperceptible and unknowable. In addition to the outer world, the cherished metaphysical certaint...