PLAY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Intellect/Emotion-Intuition/Body Knowing [7]

A Way of Balance between the 3 Centers

Intellect is one of the four pillars of humanity in this epoch while living within the set of a 3D world and its parameters.

The Four Pillars of Human Civilizations 1. Belief… 2. Connection — Projections 3. Intellect / Emotion-Intuition / Body Knowing 4. Free Will / Creativity

A Metaphor for The Human Condition (As it Is)

Imagine a horse-drawn carriage/coach. The driver is drunk. The carriage is in disrepair and . The master inside the carriage is asleep so that the horses follow their whim, going where they want. The carriage or coach, the harnesses, etc. make up the body of the ordinary human. The driver is the ego/self believing they are in control. The horses are the emotions.

The sleeping master within is the Master. He needs to wake up. To awaken him an awareness must come to the driver to sober up (awaken to that there is a sleeping master). Once sober he can work on maintaining the carriage and its parts. He can put blinders on the horses… The driver can be a steward for the Master to awaken.

[This metaphor is the work of G. I. Gurdjieff paraphrased by this author.]

Intellect

Intelligence or intellect has a bad rap as of late. There is a tendency amongst many people to over-analyze life. Thinking too much is a lopsided way of being in the world. Thinking is something everyone does, but it is not intelligence.

Intelligence is blatantly absent in the population. The evidence is clear. Many take opinion as fact, conspiracy theories abound, fear becomes anger. Intelligent people are belittled and attacked. Intellect is out of balance.

When balanced emotion and intuition; body-knowing, and intellect can become a formidable force for compassionate action. This kind of action can balance the scales of justice. It is a force — meditating peace and wisdom.

Intellect balancing compassionate heart and empathic understanding — while holding good boundaries can be an excellent leadership-by-example skill.

Our overuse of intellect is part of the imbalance of our human organism. Relying solely on intellect, as mighty as it is, is the source of its downfall when emotion/intuition and body knowing are banished from the equation. Their banishment doesn’t force them to leave. It makes them go underground or become unconscious to rise up and bite us in the ass when we’re least expecting it.

Emotion-Intuition

In recent years emotional intelligence has entered the purview of the world zeitgeist. In the 90s many people accessed intuitive acumen. Intuition is the skill to leap over plodding intellect and arrive at an answer. It doesn’t need to follow all the intellectual steps. Yet, intuition isn’t always correct. It misses the mark occasionally. Critics of the emotive-intuitive process have seized on this to discount intuition.

Like any newly discovered talent, this ability needs exercise. The underpinning of intuition is emotional awareness. Women have traditionally been more skilled than men in identifying emotions and naming them. In this tradition, they are better at processing feeling states. Many women have trained men in emotional awareness and the ability to process their feelings. I am one of these men who have been trained. Yet, I have been born with an intuitive gift. Trained by my father in logic and intellectual debate, I was belittled when I used my intuitive abilities. So I suppressed them until my 30s.

It seems that many more men have developed their abilities to identify and name their feelings. This is the good news. The mind is an important ally in emotional awareness. It helps to name the feelings and can engage in processing feelings with one’s partner. This helps increase emotional awareness. Besides learning how to identify and process my feelings from my partner, my career demanded that I have a greater awareness of my feelings. I worked for 20-plus years in the alternative mental health arena. This kind of emotional training heightened my intuitive skills.

The downside of feelings is whims (or clickbait in our modern world). Whims are fine when are playful. When seriousness or neutrality is called for, whims are the vehicles for distractions, deflections, procrastination, and other time-wasting activities. Whims become allied with opinions, judgments, and other associations that the mind produces. The mind may hasten the flow of whims to become habits leading to attachments, identifications, justifications, and addictions. As a result, we are often enslaved both outwardly and inwardly. In this way, a pathway to mastery is restricted or blocked completely. As long as addictive behaviors persist mastery is blocked.

Balance is the key. True balance arises from the body.

Body Knowing

When we first saw Earth from space our awareness expanded. I used to think of Earth as the earth, that which was beneath my feet. Now I think, feel, and sense the atmosphere as Earth’s breath.

My body is not only that which I see, feel, sense, and know. This organism of mine is connected by breath to spirit. With spirit is the electromagnetic field around me. It is integral to that which I see.

A teacher once said:

“You don’t need to take notes. Instead, access your body knowing. Our bodies remember everything as long as we are present in and with our body in the present.”*

The intellect is limited to thought. Our body holds all our thoughts from the impetus to act and the result. Our body holds our emotions in cellular and holistic memories. Everything we experience whether conscious or unconscious is in our body. To quote a friend:

The Body is our personal Akashic Record.

Self-observation as previously discussed begins with the body. Why? My body does not have an opinion. It is neutral. Developing the neutral witness requires a neutral base — the human body or my body. The underpinnings of the self-observation technique arise from a mind-body connection. This is a good partnership for the novice. It does not add emotion prematurely unless the ego/self strays from the task at hand. When the ego/self strays — the novice can rely on a teacher to help them stay on point. This is one of the reasons why reporting self-observations to someone further along the path and/or a teacher assists the novice in speaking about the observation in the present.

Building on a body (no pun intended) of self-observations assists the novice to become an initiate. When the initiate is clear on what they observe without the prevarications of the mind to associate, separate, and compartmentalize, then a teacher is no longer necessary. It is important for the initiate not to share observations with anyone (other than a teacher or others doing similar work) lest it become the hanky-panky of ego machinations.

This is a way of balance,

* Note-taking — as in writing notes or typing on a tablet, smartphone, or laptop is a head trip. Remembering through body knowing is less associative in nature due to the body’s direct unfiltered contact with all that we experience. Note-taking has a greater associative import due to the mind’s filters to compartmentalize information and keep it separate from holistic understanding (as it is with body knowing).

NOTE: Meditation is another way of transforming the ego/self into a master. I offer Self-observation as a faster more direct route to mastery as long as the practitioner engages in the practice. It’s so easy for the self/ego to take the process into fantasy.

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