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Panelists highlight music, poetry and mystical experience as distinct ways of knowing
Summary
During the Davidson Honors College panel, presenters and audience members argued that music, poetry and mystical or transcendent experiences provide forms of knowledge that are not reducible to propositional language or scientific method.
Panelists and audience contributors at the Davidson Honors College lecture series described art and transcendent experiences as legitimate and sometimes primary ways of knowing.
Gary (presenter) read and discussed Jane Kenyon's poem "Depression in Winter" to illustrate how sensory experience and poetry can ratify faith or shape conviction. He said poetry "is a raid on the inarticulate" and used the poem's image of finding a…
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