Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path

280 INDEX

observation of, 31-35, 37, 39,
79, 96, 234
as percept, 55, 78-79, 82, 115
preconscious, 42
“pure,” 143, 148
relation of to consciousness,
43-44, 47, 78, 95-96
relation of to intuition, 88-89
relation of to materialism, 21
relation of to observation, 29-
32, 36, 54-55, 99
relation of to organization,
137
relation of to percept, 29, 89,
90-91, 92, 98, 99-100
role of in human life, 101, 142
in the service of understanding
the world, 27-48
as source of knowledge, 131
unity experienced within, 84-
85, 89
as world contemplation, 42-
43, 101
See also intuition
thought
expression of, 33, 168
impure thought, 192
process examination of, 35-
36, 39
in relation to materialism, 20-
23, 111, 133
See also thinking
thought pictures
compared to experience, 23,
93
confused for thinking, 46
See also mental picture
time, function of, in
understanding of percept, 80

touch

perception of, 98, 116

See also sense organs

transcendental realism, 76-78

See also naive realism;

reality

transformation.

See change; evolution

truth

process for discovering, 95

See also fact

U

unconscious

relation of to consciousness,

36

See also consciousness

understanding

role of observation and

thinking in, 29-30

See also cognition;

knowledge

understanding of the world, 43

unity

between the I and world, 19

among things, 110, 176

enhanced through thinking,

84-85, 89

of matter and spirit in atom,

24-25

of monism, 21, 231-232

of subject and object, 82

within ideas, 154

See also individual;

separation

universal process.See world

process

universality, compared to

individuality, 129-132