Abstract

The phenomenon of inspiration (Latin: inspiratio) has long attracted the attention of thinkers and creative people. In ancient times, it was often explained as a divine influence (mania in Plato), pointing to its independence from human will. The Romantic era turned inspiration into a synonym for genius and irrational insight. The article first briefly introduces the Concept of Guided Inspiration (CGI), in which inspiration is treated not as a purely spontaneous revelation but as a sequence of conditions and cognitive operations involving attentional regulation, problem decomposition, the suspension of premature criticism, the search for structural correspondences, and subsequent validation.