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Albert Einstein (-Link) is quoted for saying, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Let’s take this quote to its very root. According to science, with a blend of Kabbalah, our thinking is the product of nature and of nurture. On the nurture side, our perception is based on the earliest truisms we learned from our primary caretakers and our environment about reality. On the nature side, our thinking is based upon our merging elements of our souls’ faculties of intellects and of the merging elements of our physiological brains. And while our studies are proving to us, that much of the brain is soft-wired, rather than, hard-wired, nevertheless, much of why different people have different talents, such as in art, music, science, numbers, abstract logic, etc., are the outcome of their nature of merging elements within their specific soul and of their specific brain, which then effects their mind and its ways of thinking.
The point being, that our, “Kind of thinking,” when we are speaking about something far deeper and more wholistic, than a mathematical formula, is something far genetically deeper, both physically and spiritually, than to just erase the blackboard, and start over from a radically new premise.
With this understanding, I reflect upon what Dr. Carl Jung said to the relapsing alcoholic businessman Rowland Hazard III, as documented in the Big Book of Alcoholic Anonymous, page 27:
The doctor said: "You have the mind of a chronic alcoholic. I have never seen one single case recover, where that state of mind existed to the extent that it does in you." Our friend felt as though the gates of hell had closed on him with a clang.
He said to the doctor, "Is there no exception?"
"Yes," replied the doctor, "there is. Exceptions to cases such as yours have been occurring since early times. Here and there, once in a while, alcoholics have had what are called vital spiritual experiences. To me these occurrences are phenomena. They appear to be in the nature of huge emotional displacements and rearrangements. Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them. In fact, I have been trying to produce some such emotional rearrangement within you. With many individuals the methods which I employed are successful, but I have never been successful with an alcoholic of your description."
Upon hearing this, our friend was somewhat relieved, for he reflected that, after all, he was a good church member. This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's telling him that while his religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
Dr. Jung is here describing the very core nature of what it means, “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” when speaking of a core problem within the depts of our, “Kind of thinking.”
With this understanding, we are now going to explore what, “Completely new set of conceptions and motives,” we experienced 3,332 years ago, at Mount Sinai, when G-d gave us His Torah, and how this New Kind of Thinking, happened. And, most importantly, how we can access this change of thinking today.
This lecture is based primarily on a maamor that the Rebbe delivered on the holiday of Shavuot, in 1969, exploring the mystical teachings upon the unprecedented, and never to be repeated, Mount Sinai experience.
