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32. SUDDEN ILLUMINATION

HE BELIEVES THAT HIS INVENTIONS COME THROUGH HIM FROM THE INFINITE FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE – AND NEVER SO WELL AS WHEN HE IS RELAXED.– Mina Miller Edison, talking about Thomas Edison

In his book, Cosmic Law: Patterns in the Universe, Dean Brown wrote that Polanyi’s “sudden illumination” was an invariant law of the universe. He said that what is presently concealed will eventually be revealed and that revelation comes through grace alone. Revelations can be progressive and can take place in science, self-knowledge, and learning. One knows one is on the right track if the revelation is progressively more beautiful.

Brown uses the word metanoia to describe the experience of sudden illumination or revelation. “For the Greeks, ...