2006.02.26 - Balancing Heart and Intellect

[Monica]

it's really hard to turn down the volume on your rationality, even after bearing witness to many seemingly uncanny synchronicities.

Great topic, Lavazza!

Why would it even be necessary to 'turn down the volume on rationality'? I see no reason why rationality and heart can't coexist.

I see it as completely irrational to ignore all those seemingly uncanny synchronicities. A rational mind does not ignore evidence. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence (though not proof) of paranormal activity, reincarnation, UFO's, etc. Oh and how about the absolutely irrefutable, tangible evidence of crop circles?

When wondering whether communicating with aliens is rational, just listen to 'rational' and highly respected (by the conventional scientific community) Carl Sagan, who rationally calculated the odds of extraterrestrials' existence and deemed it not only highly likely, but practically impossible that there would not be aliens! And this from the conventional scientific community's 'golden boy'!

(Regrettably, Carl Sagan is no longer with us to analyze crop circles. I can only wonder what he'd have to say about them. At the time of his passing there were very few, and research in its infancy.)

A rational mind has no conflict with an open heart.

What we think of as being intellectual, might actually be having blockages resulting in dogmatic thinking, which actually isn't rational at all.

From the transcript you linked:

From the point of view of the heart, the workings of the intellect seem young, untrained and immature. However, it is our feeling that it is helpful not to scorn the use of the intellect completely but to do as this instrument does, and depending primarily upon the knowing aspect of the heart, move into the use of the intellect, directing the intellect rather than being directed by the intellect, in the perfectly just and reasonable attempt to look into what might be happening, as the one known as B said, in terms of geometry or densities or however one can think about the experiences that have been so powerful and so plentiful for the one known as B in these last few weeks. It is not necessary to scorn and lay aside the intellect. It is only necessary to remove it from the driver’s seat and to ask it to take up its rightful place as a servant.

A rational mind in the service of the heart still functions. It is the intellect acting alone that might tend to get mired in dogmatic thinking, which, according to scientific thinking, isn't actually rational at all, but biased.