06-13-2021, 10:08 AM
Rudolf Steiner said that when moving into the spiritual and the supersensory our thinking must become like how when we grasp something in the physical world there is a direct sensory experience, he said. In contrast, ordinary thinking he called passive thinking and it's merely images presented to us, detached from the direct involvement in thinking as a sense perception.
That's radically different than the usual spiritual teachings about quieting down thoughts! Or moving into transconceptual awareness. What Steiner talked about is to instead develop thought into a higher level. I found that very interesting. And maybe a social memory complex has that kind of higher form of thinking. And it could even be, I speculate, that the higher form of thinking requires an activated cerebellum which some say is the third eye (the most common claim is probably that it's the pineal gland, and it could even be both).
That's radically different than the usual spiritual teachings about quieting down thoughts! Or moving into transconceptual awareness. What Steiner talked about is to instead develop thought into a higher level. I found that very interesting. And maybe a social memory complex has that kind of higher form of thinking. And it could even be, I speculate, that the higher form of thinking requires an activated cerebellum which some say is the third eye (the most common claim is probably that it's the pineal gland, and it could even be both).