Intuitive Thinking

Or maybe some of you would prefer "Instinctual Thinking".

When I was studying a course in "The Human Potential Movement" which is a part of the "Peer Counseling Movement" around 2000 one of the exercises was to remember our consciousness before we were enculturated. This is extremely difficult for most people simply because before you were trained to think in our culture you were basically a baby animal. So, literally every way you presently think was a conditioned response and not your natural state of being as a human animal. Now, you might say, "Thank God" but that "Thank God" is so society can be as peaceful and as orderly as it is without problems. It isn't necessarily that all this is "Good" for you individually. It is primarily good for society in general and allows 7 billion people to exist without killing or torturing each other so much as they would otherwise. In fact, likely humans would number in the thousands rather than the billions if they weren't conditioned to be "Social" and not to physically harm one another.

Anyway, I visualized myself before any conditioning just like the other men taking this course. And what I found was really startling because I actually got there. My consciousness was completely animal like as a little baby and my mother's breast was as big as a room to me. And this was my complete thought, "I WILL DO ANYTHING TO EAT AT THAT BREAST". It was life itself for me and I knew it. So, love and familiarity was not a part of this at all. Survival was why I would literally do anything to get that breast and to live.

So, since this is the first conscious memory I was able to access after the womb I began to think about this in the context of my whole life and what this meant. Then when I traced forward I saw why I began looking at people they way I do. Very young, I began to classify people into "Spiritual" and into another category which would be "Intellectual and scientific". From these two categories it would then go down to spiritual and "Nice" or spiritual and "crazy". Also, from "Intellectual and scientific" it would also go down to "Intellectual and Scientific "Nice" and Intellectual and scientific  "Crazy". These four classifications were all I needed from ages 2 to 12 to tell me anything I needed to know about any person, child or adult. So, I classified everyone in this way.

But, as I grew older I also found that there were "Spiritual People" who were also "Intellectual and Scientific". So, now I had 6 classifications of people that I met, "Spiritual", "Intellectual and Scientific" and a combination of the two, all broken down into "Nice" or "Crazy". And then there was another category which was for people who meant well so they were nice but who were also crazy. This was usually old people who were starting to lose it mentally.

By using my system I survived childhood and into adulthood. So, basically it was about finding out immediately who I could trust and who I couldn't within a few minutes of talking to anyone. And sometimes all you have to do is to look at someone to know whatever you need to know about them to be safe.

The basis of all these categories came from my parents and my mother's mother who lived with us while I was growing up. My father I saw as Intellectual and scientific even though he was also spiritual. My mother who was not intellectual or scientific but common sensical instead was "Spiritual" and her mother I called Nana was also "spiritual". However, I didn't find out until my mother was about 82 that both she and her mother were "dyslexic" and my father was not. So, I realized when I was around 50 that my mother and grandmother were not just "spiritual" they were also dyslexic and then I realized often that dyslexic people are just so intuitive that they often are spiritual too.

For example, often dyslexic people think 1, 1000, 100000, 1000000, etc. Were as a regular processor (most people) would think 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8,9, 10. Einstein was a dyslexic so he could visualize himself soul traveling on a beam of light through the galaxy and come up mathematically with E=MC2 and prove it mathematically because he had already soul traveled down an actual beam of light and had experienced it firsthand.

So here, being spiritual and scientific combine in a really amazing way for everyone.

So, because of Einstein it is my thesis that combining "Spirituality" with "Intellectual and Scientific" thinking is the actual future of the human race.

So, whatever future we have as humans it will come from activating our spirituality and combining it with our intellectual and scientific intelligence. And if our motivation is compassionate for all life  past, present and future we will find ways to make friends with all beings.

Later: I also realized at about 50 years of age that I can process information either like my mother and grandmother did and also like my father did. So, I'm not dyslexic and did not have problems learning in school like my mother and grandmother did. My grandmother left school in the third grade because they didn't have ways to teach dyslexic people before 1900. She was born in 1888 in Philadelphia and then raised in Scotland after their family home in Philadelphia burned down and returned around 1910 with her husband to the U.S. My mother was a C student in school and found she was very dextrous and capable of making things with her hands. So, when my grandfather left his wife around age 60 she had a stroke and my mother worked to support her mother and her during the late 1930s until she met and married my father when she was 27 in 1946. So my mother financially supported her mother from the time she was 18. My grandmother was in a coma for a month or more and woke up just in time to take care of me as a baby. Mom said her mother was a "Walk-in" and a totally different person after her stroke. I remember her as reading her Bible a lot and watching soap operas with my Mom and before that listening to radio shows with me like "Gildersleave" and "Fibber McGee and Molly" until we bought our first TV set in 1954.

Even today there are only 12 schools in the U.S. that I know of that teach "Different learners" including dyslexics. The public School Shaming method does not work with dyslexic people at all. It only destroys their self esteem or makes them really angry or both.