Friday, June 12, 2009

INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence (as distinct from the mind or its knowledge) is easier to define. Intelligence is our ‘capacity to understand’. Working with intelligence, our inherent capacity to understand allows greater abstract flexibility and detail than discussions of the 'one mind' which inevitably evoke symbolic images and spiritual interpretations. Most definitions of consciousness involve the idea of self-awareness, and/or a soul or psyche, characteristic of personal awareness. I think consciousness is our intuitive or symbolic ‘awareness of relationship’. (as distinct from the mind or its knowledge). Intelligence is our ‘capacity to understand’, without end, amen.