Monday, November 2, 2009

intellectual structures

Our consciousness consists partially of an intellectual structure. One's intellectual structure is a web of relationships of concepts (emerging forms, abstractions, emotions) developed over one's lifetime to make sense of sensation.

Intellectual structures vary in complexity. Some are very simple with fewer concepts and differentiations, and the web of relations among the existing concepts may be habitually automatic in their pathways. Some intellectual structures may be thus almost entirely predictable with little creativity or newness of pathways -- some concepts always being in the forefront and connected by straight well-plowed furrows.

At the other extreme are intellectual structures ever-opening to new concepts, new routes of connectiveness amongst these and the other more-established concepts -- an intellectual structure that is alive and vibrant with new possibility and with adherence to and resonance with the supreme intellectual structure of life and Light itself.

Intellectual structures vary in sensitivity, openness, complexity, responsiveness, clarity, concreteness, awareness, vibrational quality and capability, inclusiveness, focus, range, speed, curiosity, and potency.

Some intellectual structures are more attuned to the rhythms of the universe, the cosmos, the Source. Others are more attuned to societal customs of humans. A balance between the two is a goodness, though I favor the former over the latter. The latter often excludes (or attempts to exclude) the former while the former always includes the latter.

2 comments:

  1. Ahhhh... What wonderful insight for starting my Monday!

    Thanks, George!!!

    Love to you, my friend.

    Patrick

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  2. And so the cartographer within us may eloquently dance upon or be frightfully hobbled by the web of maps she weaves.

    "The map is not the territory." Maybe. Perhaps our maps actually create the territory or maybe there are only those maps. Perhaps there's an inter-whirling of both territory-building and mapping in a co-creative endeavor with That which gently breaths us. Regardless, to fully surrender to a Loving, Divine Charioteer upon the territory's battlefield is a sublime and beckoning call...


    --MCB

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