26 Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path
Our way is thus mapped out for us. We do not wish to
speculate about the interaction of nature and spirit. We
wish to descend into the depths of our own being, to find
there those elements that we have saved in our flight out
of nature.
The investigation of our own being must bring us the
solution to the riddle. We must come to a point where we
can say to ourselves: Here I am no longer merely “I.”
There is something here that is more than “I.”
I am aware that some who have read to this point will not
find my explanations correspond to “the present state of
science.” I can only reply that up to now I have been con-
cerned not with scientific results but rather with a simple
description of what we all experience in our own con-
sciousnesses. Diverse statements about attempts to recon-
cile consciousness with the world also entered the stream
of argument, but only to clarify the actual facts. For this
reason, too, I attach no value to using the individual ex-
pressions, such as “I,” “spirit,” “world,” “nature,” and so
forth, in the precise way that is usual in psychology and
philosophy. Everyday consciousness is unfamiliar with
the sharp distinctions of science, and up to this point, my
intention has been to survey the facts of everyday life.
What concerns me is not how science until now has inter-
preted consciousness but rather how consciousness expe-
riences itself hour by hour.
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