Diagram & Article - Intelligence & Ignorance
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Intelligent people have the awareness to know what they are, spirit having a human experience; where they are, in the physical real world; what's going on, resistance to initiative, and what they can do.
The awareness function of their invisible self evaluates impressions both internal and external, evaluating them according to a single-minded purpose of living, and the invisible spirit within responds accordingly to this evaluation through the physical body.
The intelligent person refuses to live in conflict. If his single-minded purpose is intact, he will be consciously acting every moment. When lapses occur and conflict ensues, he will immediately recognize that he has walked into a minefield and stop, reconsider, refuse to make war, refuse to let warfare rage within him. He knows that conflict is a warning signal that he fell asleep on the job and he will shake himself awake. If overwhelmed by circumstances, he still refuses to indulge in conflict, he gets quiet and mindful. He does not engage in endless pro- and con- debates about what to do, he doesn't look for blame.
THE WAY of Intelligence is for adults only. If THE WAY of Intelligence were used to determine anyone's adult status, we would find, as a wise old man of my acquaintance used to say, that "for the most part, the world is populated by infants with grown bodies and technical educations."
In the apparently unpleasant process of birth, an infant has the feeling that the whole purpose of living is to regain the non-disturbed state from which it was expelled, and who could blame it! This feeling becomes a decision that is active from then on, unless it is one day acknowledged, reevaluated, and a new decision about the purpose of living is made in its place.
As he grows, he makes more decisions to try to help in his quest for non-disturbance. They are understandable for a child, and in the beginning some of them even work. He complains and demands and his needs and wants are most often met. One day he realizes that pleasing Mama can better work to get his way, but he really wants to complain. Conflict has been established. Later he is told to obey or else, and depends on others and their ideas to be responsible for him. Conflict takes its toll and the child feels if he would change he'd be non-disturbed. That doesn't work and he begins to blame everyone and everything else for his misery.
This internal conflict makes life a battleground to him, he lives in eternal warfare, both inside and around him, because everyone else is in the same predicament. We all know that war leads to death and destruction, yet those ignorant of their purpose of living will continue to struggle on this battlefield until finally death brings them non-disturbance. Maybe.
from The Way of Intelligence, Vol I, No 1, January 2001
For ages there has been a way for mankind to reach his potential, to live in a true culture rather than the frantic civilization that passes for culture. Threats and promises rule the world, most people are engaged full time in eking out a living, and in the more modern parts of the world, in paying for distraction. In "olden times" anyone who questioned this sorry purpose of living would have had to work hard to find a guide, and who knows with what success.
It doesn't take much observation to realize that the vast majority of civilization lives in ignorance, despite the availability of "information" about every conceivable subject. Most live to gain pleasures of every kind, and to escape discomfort of any kind. Hardly any action is done with any other purpose. (Don't take my word for it, start checking this out in others and then yourself.) Mankind has such a nobler purpose than merely showing just how sophisticated mammals can be! How intelligent is that? But who could know what to do, unless they were guided?
In the last century, several guides appeared and changed this. They opened the secret chambers and made THE WAY of Intelligence available to any and all.
When practiced, THE WAY of Intelligence creates a culture within civilization. In this culture, people do not participate in warfare, or in competition, its polite counterpart. They do not identify with the titillations and horrors projected at them continually. They don't obsess about their petty selves, they're much more interested in the bigger picture. They do not squander their energy and ultimately their lives feeding inner turmoil, "what ifs" and "if onlys", they accept "what is" gracefully, and make changes out of love, or even just for the fun of it, never because they see change as important. They take responsibility for their inner state and for their actions. They are not greedy or fearful, and thus are immune to suggestion promoted by institutions and anyone else wanting control. They know what they are, spirit having a human experience. They understand that both resistance and change are the nature of life on Planet Earth. They know themselves, and they remember themselves.
How many people do yo know who live THE WAY of Intelligence? The basic information in this newsletter has been given to us by a guide, in hopes that we would help to develop and participate in a real culture, that we would stop ignoring our intelligence and begin to use it.
The principles outlined here are for those who are willing to grow up--the long childhood of the human race is obsolete. Times are as challenging as ever, if not more so, because everything seems to be flying by so fast. The necessity to awaken from the sleepy childish behavior of our collective youth has never been greater.
The method is available for the taking. It's on the internet, it's on the airwaves, it's in publications. But it needs to be used, not just read and talked about. To ignore it is as though someone prepared a beautiful meal for a totally malnourished person who refused to eat it because he or she preferred candy.
But to use the material does not mean to believe it--in fact don't believe a thing you read here. If it sounds interesting, check it out for yourself. If it works, and you work it, it's yours. If not, discard it.
