Random Thoughts on Spontaneous and Directed Thinking and the Problem of Evil

Recording Location
Lone Pine, Calif.
Recording Date
23 July 1975
Recording Information

Franklin Merrell-Wolff addresses several questions in this discourse that are not directly related. He first examines the question of whether thoughts occur spontaneously without out thinking them, as Aurobindo asserts, or are actively formulated by self-effort, as implied by Descartes. He contrasts these two perspectives in light of Keyserling’s comment regarding the influence of tropical climates upon the thought process. He goes on to make a distinction between the imaginal thinking of the sense mind and the conceptual thinking of the Buddhi, and offers a description of his thought process before and since his Realizations of 1936, and suggests that we may have two kinds of thinking—one laborious and self-directed, and the other effortless and spontaneous. Wolff next takes up a new line of reflection in connection with the Last Supper of the Christ as represented in the Gospels, and he discusses the difference between racial and pan-racial orientations of religious groups. He concludes these random thoughts by turning his attention to a discussion of the problem of evil prompted by a lengthy statement in the tenth letter of The Mahatma Letters.

Transcript
Recording Duration
55 min
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