The observation and description of tinking is already the science of thinking.
When we observe something with our sensory organs, we see the outer appearance of it. As a first step must recognize and classify what we see. We experience ourselves standing outside facing something.
When we observe the thoughts within our mind, they show themselves entirely, not just their outer shell. What we observe within our mind does not need to be completed or recognized, it is already complete. We experience ourselves as a part of it.
Sensory perception initially gives us a mystery. In everyday life we usually no longer notice this, because we solve those mysteries so quickly that we often don’t even notice. It takes practice or the confrontation with new sensory inputs (for example a trip to an unknown environment) to once again notice how our thinking solves those mysteries. For the most part, the analysis of sensory inputs is done in the background based on our experience, without noticeable effort, and very quickly. It only requires our attention when we are confronted with something new.
But lets return to sensory perception. It delivers us the outer appearance of reality. We experience ourselves as detached from that reality, but can identify with it. I can value the clothes I am wearing as an important part of who I am. I can get to the conviction that I am incomplete without those clothes. Our physical body has a special position here. We can perceive it, and our sensory organs are at the same time a part of it. We all define ourselves to a significant degree with out body, at least for a certain time in life. It is important that we do so, because we are responsible for the care and maintenance of our body. Our body is important for us to exist as individuals. So we perceive things with the help our our body. We split them up in parts belonging to us and parts belonging to the rest of the world. We do so with our thinking. The hair on our head is a part of us. When they fell down on the haircutters floor they become a part of the outside world again. We have only borrowed the parts that we build our body with.
Some mysteries that sensory perception gives to us are harder to figure out. We experience a phenomenon and have no idea what is going on. That makes us restless. We have a need to understand our surroundings, to be able to make predictions. So we must find out what’s behind the phenomenon. We must find the rules, the cause behind the the sensory perception. To do so we have science. Every human looks for rules behind the perceptions and therefore is a scientist. Some of us search in very specific areas and get paid for it, they are also scientists. We all have learned early on to add concepts to the things we perceive, to recognize what appears in front of us. We see for example a cup and realize immediately what idea it represents, what concept belongs to it. It is more difficult with things that we perceive but have not created ourselves. But even then we can find and connect ideas, and then might notice that the idea also shows up in other objects. We find the idea with our thinking, and we are adding it to the sensory perception. Only then have we grasped reality fully. This Erkenntnis we can then also verify, for example with a scientific method and further observation.
When we observe thinking itself, the process of Erkenntnis is not applicable. It’s necessity arises as a consequence of splitting up reality, which travels to us through two separate ways, one half through sensory perception, and the other half through thinking. We have to connect the two halves again in the process of Erkenntnis. But when we observe our thinking, we got everything in unity. We look at something that appears complete, and we can observe it as a whole. To capture thinking in all its clarity, all we need is to observe it. As a consequence, observing thinking is already the science of thinking. And the results can be verified by every human who has learned to observe their thinking. However, doing that is an unusual activity and therefore not immediately easy for most people living today. We have learned to direct our attention to the world outside thinking, for example sensory perceptions and feelings. Directing our attention to thinking itself is unfamiliar to us. It takes practice.
The observation of thinking is the most important observation a human being can make. Only here can we observe something undivided, that appears complete and clear. This personal experience is the foundation to create our own worldview. It is the basis to become independent of the revelations of the authorities, and to become more and more free.