ABSTRACT
One should probably not talk much about thinking, one should rather do it. But considering the title of this book, The Soul Always Thinks, and the fact that “thinking” or “thought” is surrounded by many popular misconceptions and prejudices, if it does not meet with downright rejection, it may not be altogether inappropriate here to summarily and sketchily compile a few notes on the of and to introduce some distinctions. Thinking, so we learn from Bishop Berkeley (as also from C. G. Jung), is something rare, unusual. Nevertheless, because everyone has opinions, employs and applies opinions, and because of the confusion mentioned, everyone is convinced that without further ado he is able to think. The subject or agent of thought proper, of true thinking, by contrast, is not the ego, not we people, but, mythologically speaking, “the soul.”.
