Insights on Gary Lachman's Lost Knowledge of the Imagination It began to shift our focus from the qualitative aspects of reality to its physical form, which was subject to laws of mechanical cause and effect. #4 The scientific revolution, which was a collaboration between the Church and a rising science, changed the way we view the world. It was a new breed of genius that believed in humankind’s ability to understand their world and free themselves from the constraints of ignorance and fear.
#3 The ‘new way of knowing’ was what we now know as science.
#2 The new mode of knowing, which I am referring to, arose out of the renewed interest in Nature as an object of study and contemplation, which presaged the rise of the Gothic in the twelfth century. It became the gauge by which we measure such difficult and fundamental notions as truth and reality. #1 The new way of knowing that arose in the early seventeenth century was so effective and powerful that it quickly rose to prominence in practically all fields of human endeavor. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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