1988
ABM Stephen Birkland recently attended a non-Bahá’í seminar on creative thinking. He reviewed the various kinds of thinking that were covered. Among them were concrete thinking, abstract thinking, imaginary thinking, and the greatest of them all: “visionary thinking”. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said that learning and the use of the mind were among the “unshakable pillars” of the Faith. It is the gift of understanding that distinguished humanity from all other forms of creation. The Faith needs visionaries, people who will consider the spiritual principles to apply when faced with a problem.