It may surprise you to learn that many of the difficulties we face in everyday life are caused by the use of the intellect.
To expand upon this, it is more correct to say that it is the misuse of the intellect which causes problems, not the intellect itself.
The intellect itself is a neutral digital operator, a natural version of modern IT and computers, which specialises in dealing with objects, to help create more from that which already exists.
Creating More
It is in our interpretation of ‘creating more’ when the problems start to arise — as we will use our intellect in accordance with this belief, this code.
When we experience the processing power of the intellect, similar to how we see computers manipulating numbers and processes, we can become blinded by the ‘power’ of the intellect, believing it to hold the answers to all our problems.
Unfortunately, beyond a certain point of production and consumption, this can be a very dangerous path to walk, as we have most recently seen in the case of the Post Office, where the poor programming or coding of the IT solutions was being ‘patched’ at the IT level only, causing exceptional distress on the ground, especially for the sub-postmasters who were falsely accused of committing a crime they did not commit — an immense double-whammy which not only saw them being hauled through the courts by an unfeeling system (that we all create through the misuse of the intellect), but having also lost most of their life savings and assets having to plug the gaps which they (not the IT) were accused of creating.*
So let’s go back to a time before digital computers, Victorian times. At this time, the intellect obviously existed, otherwise we would not have such a golden age of literature — but it was also coupled with an intuitive element, and both the intellect and the intuition were seen as equals — there was EQUALITY between the two, beginning within each individual mind.
Dickens wrote at the time that Oliver asked for more. But what did Oliver want exactly — was it more quantity, or more quality?
*In cases such as this, it is exceptionally important not to jump to conclusions as to ‘who is to blame’ — ultimately what is ‘to blame’ is the misuse of our intellect, individually and so collectively — and for this reason you can either say everyone is to blame or no one is to blame — then move on with educating ourselves in the proper use of the intellect — if the higher echelons of the intellect choose to ignore this, then the other way is to do it from the ground up — just as a chief engineer is of equal rank to a captain, and as a last resort can relieve the captain of his duties if the chief engineer concludes after very careful consideration that the captain’s set of codes are causing a loss of quality of expression and experience for the great body of people, the ones they are meant to serve, as well as being a part of this great body themselves.
Evolution
The intellect can seem to be aware of many things, often with lightning-quick speed, but its blind spot is evolution, the live game. This is where it experiences a severe lag, and if it is not careful can get itself into severe trouble if the intuitive elements of life are ignored, or thought to be inferior to the intellect.
As indicated in the captain and chief engineer metaphor above, the intellect and the intuition are of equal rank, and it is important for certain ‘high’ levels of the intellect to recognise that the intuition also has an intellect, it is simply focused in a different ‘direction’.
For simplicity, we can say then that the intellect is focused in space, and the intuition is focused in time. If we were speaking an ‘economic’ language, space and time here are equivalent to demand and supply. Economics, as it is presently taught today, focuses on prices and quantities — it does not primarily focus on quality, believing markets built on poor quality will ultimately fail, or ‘correct’ themselves — this is where the phrase “you can’t buck the market” comes from, and is quite correct… in the long run, that is.
What this economic belief misses is the fact that between the time of ‘going off course’ due to poor quality and the time of correction, a whole load of pain and worse can be created — as illustrated above in the Post Office event. This event has ran over many decades, which then leads you to ask what other ‘deviations’ lay beneath the surface of such event, which are still choosing to force the ‘more-pain’ trajectory, and how long exactly have these been going on for… decades, centuries, millennia, eons?
X marks the Spot
In economic language, where the two ‘directions’ of demand and supply meet, a market price or value is determined. Remember, this is based on the quantity of the good or services in question not their underlying quality.
So ‘underlying’ the two directions of quantitative demand and supply, we can say that their is an ‘invisible’ or ‘non-physical’ market which is measuring quality., and it is this market to which any deviating markets always correct to, in one sense as a kind of benchmark, one which can always be improved upon, but never compromised. In our everyday life, we can call this market Nature and its ecosystems.
In this market of Nature, we can say that the two directions which are to ‘meet’ to obtain an optimum outcome are space and time, and this is where the intellect and the intuition come in. Basically speaking, the intellect is the better measurer of space, and the intuition is the better measurer of time. Each one ‘depends’ on the other to gauge ‘where they are’ in space and time, or space-time, for short. When the two are finely honed in doing what they do best, they create a state of interdependence within a single body, which we know in everyday terms as the human body. As well as helping us perform our everyday activities then, our human body at one level is also a space-time vehicle.
So instead of an economic system which arrives at a quantitative measure of price or value, the source of this everyday ‘artificial’ economic system is a ‘natural’ ecosystem which instead works on the basis of arriving at a qualitative ‘sweetspot’ in the live game of evolution, with our interaction of intellect and intuition navigating a non-physical treasure map where X literally does mark the spot.
The Next Level
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[To Be Continued]