Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path

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relation to thinking, a human beingcan remain with the
naive view of reality. If we do not keep to this view, it is
only because we notice that we have abandoned this
viewpoint for another, but are unaware that the insight we
have achieved is inapplicable to thinking. If we do be-
come aware of this, then we allow ourselves entry into the
other insight—thatin thinking andthrough thinking we
must recognize that to which we apparently blinded our-
selves by interposing our life of mental pictures between
the world and ourselves.
Someone highly esteemed by the author of this book
has raised the objection that during his explication of
thinking the author maintains a naive realist view of
thinking, as if the real world and the mentally pictured
world were one and the same. Yet the author believes that
he has proved by the present discussion that the validity
of “naive realism” for thinking follows necessarily from
an unprejudiced observation of thinking; and that naive
realism, which is invalid elsewhere, is overcome through
knowledge of thinking's true essence.