Thinking, Our Greatest Propensity

Excerpt from Schizophrenia, Alfred J. Parker

Thinking is our greatest propensity. To be logical and consistent with our scientific development, our thinking should be upon a universal plane, despite our finite existence; we should attempt to realize the vastness and profundity of life and time, and should pattern our concept and theory or religious dogma upon a profound, universal, and eternal scale—not limited to a few hundred years' existence, for so doing would place religious theory as equal to that of a flyspeck upon the Pacific Ocean.

For time immemorial humanity has personalized and symbolized life in all is phases; each person is a microcosm of the macrocosm, i.e., an individualized universe unto oneself, composed of the finite and infinite planes, a body and a mind, the latter being the channel of consciousness to the brain cells. This channel called mind must steadily grow and unfold the channel of consciousness or wisdom, or become submerged in the throes of emotion. If this occurs, we feel rather than think, and all our thoughts and actions are illogical and confused; we fail to distinguish good from evil, and fail to find balance. It is quite apparent that there is a lack of basic thinking in this world of ours, because there is no basic plan of life showing our relationship and responsibility to our source of being and our physical existence.

It seems strange that science has not learned to connect the alphabet and mathematics with human mind and thinking. How could we create conscious thinking without having symbols through which to think? Not that the letters of the alphabet are Consciousness in its greatest essence, but how can a musician produce harmony on a piano without a keyboard of language and mathematical tension through the strings?


Thought for the Day

  • Pure logic scintillates in human darkness like the refraction of light from lovely jewels. It stands out amidst mental confusion. –Alfred J. Parker

  • Love is something that should not stay the same, but something that improves with age, something that mellows and develops qualities of understanding that alter as our thinking changes. Our love of life is our conception of life, and the principle of growth allows us to alter our concept of life. –Kabalarian Writings

  • Every situation holds a lesson to be learned. –Alfred J. Parker

  • There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles such as famine and disease, and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts. –Louis L'Amour

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