DISTORTIONS OF TIME AND SPACE IN JAPANESE LITERATURE – FROM A NEW PERCEPTION OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE TO A NEW CONCEPTION OF EDUCATION
DISTORTIONS OF TIME AND SPACE IN JAPANESE LITERATURE – FROM A NEW PERCEPTION OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE TO A NEW CONCEPTION OF EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The paper explains certain “fantastic” elements in myth and folk stories – such as dilatation of time or travel to other realms – by comparison to similar concepts in modern quantum physics, as being not so fantastic but possibly perceptions of real facts. Quantum physicists have already acknowledged that oriental philosophy has similar concepts to them. A new conception of reality can and should be derived from them. Moreover it is time to accept at a general level the fact that our scientifc theories are not descriptions of reality as it is, but rather, some ever-changing forms of understanding that can show or indicate a reality which is implicit. If this view is incorpotated as a principle in education, the gains for society at large are enormous.

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