Intuition and telepathy in the life of Ovanes Tumanyan

Abstract

The article is devoted to the Armenian poet O. Tumanyan, who possessed an uncanny gift of intuitive perception of the causal relationships between phenomena and reality, and whose philosophy and worldview as a result were defined by intuition and prescience. According to S. Ovanesyan, the scholar of the poet’s legacy, Tumanyan saw intuition, anticipation, prescience, and the feeling of harmony as part and parcel of talent. He insisted on relating a moment of creative concentration to the author’s inner awakening, inspiration, and intuitive feelings. Tumanyan predicted the 1905 Russian revolution, the Armenian genocide of 1915, the train wreck en route from Pyatigorsk to Tbilisi (1917), etc. Tumanyan often wrote in immediate response to a dream. Alternatively, dreams provided words and expressions that he had been looking for or inspired certain means of expression for thoughts, phenomena, and anxieties. A study of the poet’s dreams offers a deep insight into his subconscious and psychological characteristics.