238 Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path
complete reality. Yet it finds nothing in the whole realm
of thinking that could require us to step outside of the
realm of its experience by denying the objective, spiritual
reality of thinking. According to monism, a science that
limits itself to describing percepts without penetrating to
their conceptual complements is only half complete. But
it also sees as incomplete all abstract concepts that find no
complement in percepts and that cannot fit into the con-
ceptual network that spans the observable world. There-
fore, it recognizes no ideas that refer to something lying
objectively beyond our experience and that are supposed
to form the content of a merely hypothetical metaphysics.
For monism, all such humanly created ideas are abstrac-
tions borrowed from experience—an act of borrowing
that is simply overlooked by the borrowers.
Just as little, according to monist principles, can the
goals of our actions be taken from an extra-human Be-
yond. To the extent they are in our thought, they must
stem from human intuition. Human beings do not make
the purposes of an objective (transcendent) primordial
Being their own individual purposes, but follow the pur-
poses given to them by their moral imaginations. A person
detaches the idea that realizes itself in an action from the
single world of ideas and sets it at the base of his or her
will. Thus, our actions express not commands from the
Beyond injected into our world, but human intuitions that
belong to this world. Monism recognizes no world dicta-
tor, who would assign aim and direction to our acts from
outside ourselves. Human beings find no such primal
source of existence whose advice could be sought to learn
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