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The art of self enlightenment comes into a person's range of skills after the
fundamentals are already well set and established.

Once at that plateau, it becomes helpful to cognitively be aware of what took placed naturally before, and can be nurtured further in the years ahead.

This is AutoDidactics, the competence for self-educational self-guidance.

Valery A.Kourinsky outlines and poetically interprets the sense and the process of intrinsic learning and of experiential awakening.

AutoDidactic
T h e m e s

Preface Prefacing remarks : Aims of AutoDidactics

Theme 1       The Essence of Integrative Method
Theme 2      Method of selfanalysis and selfstudying
Theme 3        Associating (mnemonics)
Theme 4        Algorithms of selfstudying
Theme 5        Algorithms of selfstudying (continued)
Theme 6        The native language and a foreign one
Theme 7        Comparativism and self-studying
Theme 8      Repetition, iteration and summing-up
Theme 9      Plan-making and plan-fulfilling
Theme 10    Methods of acceleration in selfstudying
Theme 11      Some aspects of translation technique
Theme 12      Social group and leader in selflearning
Theme 13     Stress of waiting in self-studying
Theme 14      The "bifurcation" of Self
Theme 15     Construction of the personality in selfstudying
Theme 16        "Internal progress" in selfstudying
Theme 17         Personality as extending universe
Theme 18        The Limits of Knowledge
Theme 19         Densation of time
Theme 20         Participation - social and private
Theme 21         You + Me ... (Dialogue and selfstudying)
Theme 22         The flood of consciousness ; language
Theme 23        The amount of reading
Theme 24         To be continued...
Theme 25        Studying Chinese characters in autodidactics

"My Autodidactics was conceived a long time ago as a new way of life dynamically accommodating (and never being accommodated once and for all) to the constantly and fast changing world.

Therefore, the crucial point is that the conception of self- education is here inevitably merged with many new angles regarding the contemporary human as such. All of them are based upon the principles of Postpsychology that is a result of long-term efforts in the aforesaid area.

But the central concept is the following: the research of one's SELF has priority before all self-learning methodo- logy, and so we must put self-studying in the face of practice of self-learning.

Thus, everyone who would like to adequately understand postpsycho-logical text and trends has to be exceedingly attentive to terms and notions, meanings of which are mostly more or less changed (and continue to change) in accordance with new findings of science."

Valery Kourinsky