Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path

242 Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path

the other hand, it is also a spiritual percept grasped with
no sensory organ. It is a percept in which the perceiver
himself or herself is active; and it is an activity of one’s
self that is simultaneously perceived. In intuitive think-
ing, human beings are also transferred into a spiritual
world as perceivers. What approaches us in that world as
a percept, in the same way as the spiritual world of our
own thinking, we recognize as the world of spiritual per-
ception.This perceptual world would have the same rela-
tion to thinking as does the sensory perceptual world on
the side of our senses. As soon as we experience it, the
spiritual perceptual world cannot be anything strange to us
as human beings, because we already have in intuitive
thinking an experience of a purely spiritual character. A
number of my later writings discuss such a world of spiri-
tual perception. This book,Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritu-
al Path: The Philosophy of Freedom is their philosophical
foundation. In this book an attempt is made to show that
the experience of thinking, properly understood, is already
an experience of spirit. Therefore, it seems to me that
whoever can adopt the point of view of this book in ear-
nest will not stop short of entering the world of spiritual
perception. To be sure, what is portrayed in my later books
cannot be logically derived—inferred—from the contents
of this book. But a living grasp of what is meant in this
book by intuitive thinking will naturally lead onward to a
living entry into the world of spiritual perception.