🔁 "I ask you to actively participate in the intellectual process. Participation is one of the key terms of our spiritual position and worldview. It...

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"I ask you to actively participate in the intellectual process. Participation is one of the key terms of our spiritual position and worldview. It is important not only to listen, remember, and record information, but to move together along the terrain of utterances, to master thought, to turn an expounded thought into our own content, our own filling. Dostoevsky wrote about his character Kirillov: "the idea ate him." The task is to have the idea swallow each of you. In fact, there is nothing frightening about an idea eating a person. After all, any given person as an individual, in and of himself, is not particularly interesting. I think this will gradually become clear to everyone. The idea, on the contrary, is very interesting! Moreover, it does not matter whether the idea is right or wrong. The idea itself, and the very existence of the sphere of ideas, of the ideal, the eidetic, is much richer and more interesting from all points of view. It is more worthy than the aggregated existence of a person as such (in which there is too much that is superfluous, unnecessary, that could well be dispensed with). Thus, by participating in the mastering, understanding, and assimilation of what has been said, we “feed” our individualities to predatory ideas, to the vultures of the eidetic plane. This is an extremely positive, invaluable experience."

— Alexander Dugin, “The Language of Tradition and the Paradigms of the Modern Sciences: Rectifying Names and Measuring Distances” [lecture given in 1998, published in The Philosophy of Traditionalism (2002)]