9. – Unit 11 –
Getting Involved
♣ What does it mean to explore
the world through thinking?
♣ Distinguishing the essential
from the inessential.
♣ Observation, concentration,
meditation.
10. How we learn and
remember –
the spiritual
science path
willing
feeling
thinking
We have the
capacity
and
capability.
11. We have to think a thought ourselves
to make it our own
and thinking is an activity
T
that we control.
W
Pure thought-pictures or concepts are
not exclusive and result from thinking
but our thinking is based
T
on our perception and
that is exclusive to each of us.
W
A „residual reality‟ of some thing cat
The remains
+ = broke
after our associations with it
the glass (?)
have been extracted.
T
W
Through thinking –
we are a part of the world
and apart from it.
T
W
Actively „living in the moment‟
thinking can be strengthened. T
12. What does it mean to
“explore the world and I through thinking”?
If something were to suddenly fall on our head..
..an „apparent reality‟ presents itself to us
as a „basic experience‟ of the senses.
Our reasoning suggests its spiny shell may
be protecting something inside – we peel
off this obstacle and observe the nut..
Our everyday thinking makes a connection
between the nut inside
and the shell outside.
Ouch!
(But a „residual reality‟ of the thing remains.)
13. We remain apart
from ourselves and the
chestnut with our everyday
memory and thinking of
ready made associations...
our intuitive thinking
flows from the realm of
infinite interconnectedness...
The cat
+ =
we are inside that
broke
the glass (?)
intuitive thinking...
and so, potentially,
can be inside any thing...
especially
ourselves as we are
doing it.
14. We think out what we sense
into concepts or facts.
And try to bring these into a unified whole.
15. Revealing the full reality of some thing by separating what is
whole and unifying again through reason and insight means:
To be constantly engaged in in the activity of –
Distinguishing the essential from the inessential.
The „archetypal‟ golf shot...
force
gravity
16. The essential being of an organic thing, the idea,
the „typus‟
have qualities that cannot be so easily governed
by the laws of physics.
+
Physical & Formative Physical, Formative & an
forces – contraction and awareness of sensation
expansion. (Inspirational) developing
to a certain point in
different animals.
17. N.B. If some thing‟s essential
being, ultimately, originates with
a primal creative force – does
that force live without...
...or within...
...or both? It is our thinking that
produce these questions.
Thinking comes first.
The stream of intuitive thinking
into the essential being of things,
flows through to that infinite
creative force.
18. The human being..
Physical, Formative, Inspirational
and
enduring “I” forces.
With human beings it‟s not the
typus that matters but how this
idea expresses itself in each
individual.
19. To explore how we as an ...requires that we
individual can follow our recognise and overcome
own path in harmony our own obstacles, our
with the world in which own „nutshell‟...
we live...
...so as to attend to Our path leads from our
the stream of our own „I‟, which we can
enduring „I‟... explore through
developing intuitive, in
the moment, thinking.
20. Play -
♣The Don’t Name That Thing Game
♣The Whole Thing Game
♣The Conversation Game
♣The Memory Observation Game
Object of the Games:
See Unit Notes
21. ♣ Preparation - find a place and a The ease of being and equanimity
time to sit quietly with least that can help us remember whilst
prospect of distraction – the mood not seeking a memory as such. A
you seek is one of contemplative fluid, flowing mood, calm not static.
remembrance. To be „in remembrance‟ is to love.
“He who binds himself to a joy
Does the winged life destroy:
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity‟s sunrise.”William Blake
♣ Choose some thing to observe Does something, not a person, draw
and think about your (quiet, not eager) interest and
attention? Hold it as gently as
holding a butterfly. Use or imagine
the bubble opposite as a place to
put in „suspended animation‟
anything it reminds you of,
likes/dislikes, conclusions (even its
name). It‟s not a garbage bin, just a
bubble to put inessential stuff in.
22. ♣ Delicately describe Like the child‟s game of removing a
stick or brick without disturbing
the pile, let parts of the thing „stand
out‟ and describe in turn each part
as it would describe itself to you.
Remove it from sight and draw it
from memory. Look at it again.
Have you missed anything out?
Look away again and add it.
Repeat, using all your senses. Put
any unwanted associations in the
previous bubble.
♣ Exactly imagine Keep that description clearly and
exactly before you in memory. Now
explore in imagination the essence
of the thing. When does the pencil
become a pencil, a cup become a
cup? At what point do the separate
parts become, essentially, what it
is? Imagine transition within it,
fluidity and solidity. Don‟t „reach
ahead‟. After a while - pause.
23. Part 2 A residual reality remains behind
♣ Beholding the thing the apparent reality. You‟ve
endowed your exact memory
picture with the mobile quality of
your imagination. Now, behold this
mobile form before you – you may
only have had half the story.
We behold it in our non-associating,
non-judgemental thinking as we
would to a friend, suspending our
own feelings yet gently open to
what is in their heart – (G) âme.
♣ Being involved with the thing Freed of our original sense
perception, what we sensed was
working in our soul transforming.
It is within our soul and our soul
within it. In our soul we are
thinking. And within our intuitive
thinking flows the essence of the
thing, the thought of the thing,
poured out from the same source.
