Thought and the Thinker

THOUGHT AND THE THINKER The theme of today’s programme is “Thought” taken from the title of the following two-part article by Aart Jurriaanse first published in the December 1991 and January ’92 editions of Share International magazine. He starts by saying … Man is today moving into a New Era; an era wherein the mind is going to play a dominating role; an era wherein human desire and emotion will be subverted to intellectual considerations, and where improved human relations, based on loving understanding, will supervene. It will be an era wherein the power of thought will become the guiding principle of man’s activities, in contrast to the past when man’s actions were largely determined by physical and emotional considerations. Under the circumstances a better understanding of the laws of thought must be regarded as essential. In the distant future the time will come when even concrete thought will be superseded by the intuition, and when the lower mind will merely fulfil the functions