Caravaggio. Doubting Thomas, 1600 educating in the perception must also indicate that a search of intelligibility surface leads to ignore the significance of a fact or an event, as well as a research too stubborn intelligibility leads rationalizing an error that alters that meaning. You cite examples of disastrous decisions, took not only foresight, cynicism or lack of responsibility, but also as a result of mental processes of absurd rationalization or unconscious concealment, designed to preserve our peace of mind. "The words of Edgar Morin, a sociologists more aware of our time, can describe the secret motivations that drive Thomas to put his finger in the wound of Christ. Whether it's simple curiosity or an excess of diffidence or understandable in what appears little or too obvious to all, the fact remains that Thomas is the epitome of the seeker of truth, always warned not to fall victim to the easy illusions, errors of assessment or the truth, too often exhibited as dogma or absolute certainty.
Incredulity of St. Thomas is not a simple description of events recounted by the Gospel, but is structured as a real treaty in which Caravaggio is concerned to bring out the knowledge of what it means to seek truth through reason. Through the guidelines of the geometrical composition, the faces of the four main characters seem to suggest a higher level of understanding of reality, which is indispensable to touch, directly and without mediation, the source of truth. Gushes from the wound of Christ "water and wine, metaphor of the cognitive processing of emotions in moral values, ethics and spiritual awareness. Here then is that Christ provides the face of Caravaggio alchemist who completes the work of transformation of the individual mind in the 'universal mind' able to communicate 'love and understanding' through rational deployment of symbols, parables, metaphors and initiation rituals. Knowledge is never pure, never a true and authentic understanding of what the researcher's curiosity, his intuition and his intellect were finally able to investigate and then encode in words and pictures, thesis and antithesis, synthesis and allegories, metaphors and theories, numbers and symbols. "A knowledge is never a mirror of things or the outside world. All perceptions are both translations and reconstructions from brain stimuli or signs captured and codified through the senses "(Edgar Morin, 2001). By way more reliable than vision, to the brain's perception of the many errors that accumulate over time and become sclerotic due to laziness, indolence, apathy, and that state of mind. What determines the sharpness of perception is the subjective mental state which is dependent on the presence of the "three dragons" that disturb the perception of themselves and distort the understanding of reality. The first dragon is the symbol of the veiling power to prevent the transmutation of laziness, apathy and indolence in curiosity, desire to know the truth, to study and explore the world with the faculty of creative imagination. The second dragon is a power projection that contains within itself aspects conscious, subconscious and unconscious personality can inhibit the natural flow of psychic energy in the system of mental and sensory perception and intuitive. The third dragon, finally, is the most difficult to process as it evolves with the conscious personality and expresses the qualities of the harmonic rhythm. The identification with beliefs, thoughts, emotions, fears, defense mechanisms, conflicts, complex and instinctive factors such as greed, pride and hatred, created a deep distortion in the process of decoding what is perceived and stored. And 'this is the dragon decides to autodecapitare Caravaggio, as the first act of purification of thought streamlining (Goliath) in which hatching, such as ash, the will to dominate things, ideas and systems of interpretation of the truth. Error of perception is added an intellectual error. Knowledge is generated by the Renaissance artist and psychic sensitivity of the philosopher who directly experience the duality between the cognitive system intuitive "David" and the cognitive system, streamlining of "Goliath."
The Western knowledge unfolds in the form of words, ideas, theories 'give birth' by the rational mind. All knowledge is the result of a translation / reconstruction of a knowledge that precedes it. This translation is implemented by means of language and thought, and therefore experiences the risk of error. This knowledge, both the translation of the words that the decoding of images, introduces the risk of error in interpretation of subjectivity that he knows, his world view and its principles of knowledge.
Caravaggio intellectual surrender to express an opinion, to express a personal point of view or interact with the decisions of customers in the selection of subjects. He discovers the "law of synchronicity," which offers, with amazing timing, the opportunity to experience the power of creative to explore the hidden truths in a religious or mythological subjects.
Surrender to control the world through systems of ideas, doctrines and ideologies is tantamount to an act of initiation was crucial in the philosophy of the Renaissance. This means
'decapitate' the pride inherent to the strong thought of Goliath, Caravaggio that affect the Sword of David Has os letters, summaries of the motto "Humilitas occidit superbiam.
contain "the intellectual vanity of the peacock" inside the vas Hermeticum of mind is an act of initiation that facilitates the development of critical perception and intuition in cognitive awareness of feelings and emotions, motivations and intentions, symbols and archetypes. Caravaggio goes beyond the limits of rationality and organizing virtually performs an act of "Death and Transformation" critical and speculative intellect in the creative mind of David, whose slingshot is the symbol of synchronicity operating the two cerebral hemispheres.
