Intuition, intellect and the racial question

Proceedings Number 15, Winter 1963-64.. 'Proceedings is published periodically as a reflection of the Myrin Institute's purpose and activities. The Institute believes that a genuine reconciliation of the modern scientific attitude with a spiritual world-concept is the most essential need of modern man.'. Bound with Excerpts from The Waldorf School approach to history by Werner Glas (pp. 29-40).. 'This ed. of Proceedings Number 15, originally published in 1964, has been edited to delete material that would appear dated at this time. [The essay} is based on a talk Colonel van der Post gave for The Myrin Institute at the Waldorf School, Adelphi University, on October 2, 1963.' --p. 6.

'[After a story] Now, why is it that we can't see the things that are there? I think it's because modern man has become overrational. He overvalues the cerebral part of himself; he overvalues the intellect....we have come to the point where in the interest of our own evolution, we must reassess the role of the intellect in our life; where we must, as it were, bring it into position, make it lie down once again with all that it has rejected in order to reach the amazing degree of specialization, the amazing knowledge of the objective world which we owe to it. We have to do this now, before this degree of specialization completely destroys our selves through the sense of meaninglessness. We have to make the intellect come to terms with what it's rejected; in other words, with the shadow, with the darkness.' --pp. 12-13

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