The problem with Linear Thinking

When you are doing a math problem or engineering something to be built like a bridge or home or building or even an airplane or a space ship or a ship at sea or whatever, linear thinking is useful for doing this.

However, this is not what we are all doing most of us, so linear thinking is counterproductive at times to becoming enlightened.

In the end it is all about practicality in any given moment.

What are you trying to accomplish in that moment?

IF you are driving a car linear thinking might be to be aware of the operation of your car and watching how all people around you are doing and what the weather is doing.

However, if you actually want to stay alive you might want to be monitoring all the people's minds in cars around you to see if they actually should be driving a car  in the first place and this is less a linear point of view and more of an  intuitive point of view. In this way by watching where people are actually at in consicousness you avoid people who are literally asleep when they should be driving or people who are on drugs, or worse yet people who are experiencing extreme unease from someone dying or a near death experience. Sometimes, someone dying, a breakup of a marriage or relationship is worse than someone actually being drunk or on drugs or just too asleep to drive.

So, often if you want to be alive after you get done driving that day being aware of the state of consciousness of everyone around you in nearby cars is more likely to keep you alive than any other single thing.

It's not that you are listening into whatever they are thinking. If you did that you couldn't drive your own car. NO! It's monitoring whether they should even be in a car driving and that's all so you and any passengers in your car can stay alive if you are near them driving. It's an entirely different thing.

And you might not be able to tell anything like this just by looking at a person in a car next to you because people are all used to putting up a good bluff in life all the time. It's what adults do to appear to be normal in any given situation.

So, non-linear thinking is actually much more likely to keep you alive than linear thinking most of the time except in specific situations.

So, if someone shouldn't even by on the road at all you either drop way back (like you do with weaving drunk or drugged drivers) or you quickly pass them so they don't kill you and your passengers by accident.

So, Like I said before, when driving a car especially, being aware of the state of consciousness of all drivers around you is more likely to keep you alive than any other single awareness you might have while driving.

Since most people maintain their cars so they are not dangerous, the single most dangerous thing on the road is incapacitated drivers for whatever the reason.

And often it is not drugs or alcohol but grief that makes them incapacitated so that even a drunk test by police isn't going to get them off the road and thereby save your life from them.

So, unless you save your life and all the lives in your car, who is going to?

I guess you could pray. That actually might help but that's non-linear too.

By God's Grace