The Ivory Tower and the pursuit of knowledge

[reedfish]

I am pretty sure we can all agree so far on this!

I agree with pretty much everything you wrote, except one thing. Being cut off from emotions, even a little bit, is not an advantage in my opinion. Emotions are useful and can provide with a lot of "drive" (especially anger when it's directed towards changing a situation that is uncomfortable).

About the intellect. I think there was mostly a misunderstanding about the definition of what the intellect is. To me, the intellect is not the entire nervous system. Let's use the left-brain / right-brain metaphor (since it's not so clear-cut anatomically). What I usually see people referring to when they use the word "intellect" is the left brain: logical, analytical, sequential, verbal, etc... The right-brain is more imaginative, synthetizing, intuitive, has to do with arts, music, motor skills, etc. Both are part of the mind and both are useful.

You can see here that the "intellectual" brain is the part that analyses (breaks the whole in pieces), while the right-brain synthetizes (creates a whole from pieces). You can easily see where that leads to in terms of separateness / globality..
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There is Creator (potential) and there is Logos (kinetic) The logos moves through the mover. Emotions are not to be shunned or overcome. Emotions are a dynamic of the sixth sense. That is when you can become a shepherd of your own emotions, they begin to inform in an form that which can be intellectually understood, or intuition. Emotions are a poem, a communication between you, and all your parts. Current and...technically future. Or Higher self.

The other day I was reading a thread that was asking about why love was the original thought. In my opinion love is the original because that is what the first logos saw or understood infinity to be. That was the logos perception of infinity in my opinion. In my own opinion Creator is completely emotional intelligence. or emotion. To me its like the creators emotion gives rise to all this, that can be seen. The emotions are the big potatoes.

>> especially anger when it's directed towards changing a situation that is uncomfortable

In one of the Michael books, Michael was asked what the cause of "anger" was. "They" said "we know of only one cause - unfulfilled expectations".

Whenever you find yourself angry, ask "what was I *expecting*". Expectations don't have to be "pleasant" ones. If you park your sports car in a bad neighborhood, and it's stolen, you will almost certainly be "less" angry than if it was stolen in a "rich" neighborhood. In the bad neighborhood, you almost half "expect" it will be stolen, and as you approach where you parked, you almost brace yourself for possibly seeing it gone. You breath a HUGE sigh of relief when it's still there. But in a rich neighborhood, you are not "expecting" it to be vulnerable, and therefore when it is stolen, you are "blindsided" - and the emotion will be much MORE intense. If your car is stolen in the bad neighborhood, you will not be happy, but you won't be filled with RAGE - which is distinctly possible if it's stolen in the rich neighborhood.

Stop "expecting" and you will stop being "angry".

How can you test whether someone is "wise" or not? Answer: try SURPRISING them. The less they can be surprised (about anything) the wiser they are. Unfortunately , trying to throw them "surprise" parties is MUCH more challenging, and a lot less "fun".