A beautiful excerpt Peregrinus, thank you. I especially liked this part.
I must say I do agree that sometimes I find myself having to learn and take in more and more concepts and learning which have nothing to do with anything spiritual but mostly to do with basic societal ways of life and how to survive in it. Although I find this acceptable because it makes seeking that much more interesting. To me when there is a lot of confusion it is a challenge and sort of fun to come to a balanced concept or an idea about something spiritual. Also perhaps why this planet's societies are mainly focused on intellect can be seen through this quote as well.
I also stumbled upon one of the Q'uo sessions and found this to correspond with what we're discussing right now on intellect.
Hatonn Wrote:Therefore, much strife and confusion is realized by those who attempt to orient their thinking so as to reach the accepted state or level of the assumed concept of the mature mind. This concept is usually heavily intellectual, for your society at present is primarily an intellectual society, with very, very little awareness of the existence or function of what you would call a spiritual society.
Therefore, to mature within the boundaries of your present society and be accepted as a mature person, it is necessary to be able to communicate with it in its accepted intellectual jargon, which includes primarily a ridiculously long list of totally meaningless concepts. These should be, if one is to attain true maturity, rejected as meaningless, for they are extreme transients and have nothing to do with spiritual maturity.
I must say I do agree that sometimes I find myself having to learn and take in more and more concepts and learning which have nothing to do with anything spiritual but mostly to do with basic societal ways of life and how to survive in it. Although I find this acceptable because it makes seeking that much more interesting. To me when there is a lot of confusion it is a challenge and sort of fun to come to a balanced concept or an idea about something spiritual. Also perhaps why this planet's societies are mainly focused on intellect can be seen through this quote as well.
Quo Wrote:We realize that it may seem to be off-balance that such a low positive grade would guarantee graduation, since 51% is not usually considered a passing grade, whereas in order to graduate service to self, an entity must have an almost perfect score of 95% or more of service-to-self [orientation.] However, we assure you that it is as difficult to achieve unselfish choices over half the time as it is to achieve selfish choices 95% of the time.
The reason is that the culture in which you are embedded is basically a service-to-self culture, thereby creating an outstanding and substantial bias which must be overcome by those who wish to vibrate in unconditional love, or service-to-others polarity. Choosing to be of service to others at the expense of the self is difficult to speak about and, within the confines of this question and this session of working, we would only point in the direction of speaking about it by saying that there are many examples of those who have chosen service to others at the sacrificial level.
I also stumbled upon one of the Q'uo sessions and found this to correspond with what we're discussing right now on intellect.
Quo Wrote:The universe of space/time is the universe in which your intellect functions. Your brain is a tool that is limited to the space/time considerations of analysis, the solving of problems and other abstract functions of reasoning and rationalization.
The world of time/space is the world of the unseen realms or the inner planes. It is the realm of your consciousness and your heart. If you sometimes feel that you have a divided mind, you are perceptive and literally correct. For you have two kinds of mind. You have the mind of the brain and you have the mind of your heart. The brain is an excellent tool for solving problems of your consensus reality. The mind of your heart is the province of intuition and insight. It receives promptings, visions, dreams and inspiration from the spiritual realm.
This instrument has often said that the longest distance in spiritual work is the fourteen inches from head to heart. Neither kind of thinking is to be rejected or disrespected, and the goal that we would suggest to each of you is to combine the two ways of using the faculties that have been given to you as a person or a soul.