Explosive Ideas for Pedagogy and Education, and the Processes of Spiritual Development

The article introduces the concept of “explosive ideas”, along with an emphasis on diverse function three types “explosions” in mode meeting texts culture. author illustrates his practice reading, lecturing, and writing books basis five forms effect”, inscribed in: (a) new meanings well-known terms, destroying banality; (b) terms as “screens”, revealing otherwise invisible phenomena; (3) eye-opening questions that encourage a change perspective; (4) individual theses postulating paradoxicality, complexity, normativity concepts; (5) sets hermeneutic circle, constituting well-established space for another being text phenomenon explosiveness examples development impulses history ideas achievements Nobel laureates literature, treating humanities any self-reflection culture, symbolic soil spirituality. idea has functions: naivety appearances, experiencing shock; paving way accessing meanings, opening eyes effect awakening; (c) stimulating internal transformation, rooting life-giving spiritual impulses, decentrating our roots world Finally, reveals “pandemic thoughtlessness”. proposes strategy educational treatment which affirmation “explosive” fragment coincides concern integral influencing meanings. by citing many from field cultural self-reflection, taking into account including poetry, pointing to attempts build theories hypothetical representations conceptual invariants experience. adopted reading belles lettres, philosophy, social disciplines, is subordinated subsequent generations, heritage, at same time translates pedagogical postulates.