Intelligence?

We were discussing the notion of intelligence and how is it that we acquire knowledge and is intelligence a product of knowledge? The human brain is the store house of all our accumulated experiences. It is mixed with the on going psychological and biological idiosyncrasies of each individual which in combination develop into a perception of reality. Most of what we consider intelligence is no more than rote memory organized into logical and illogical ideals. A person can acquire an encyclopedic knowledge of events and facts but may be lacking in intelligence. So what is intelligence? One could say that intelligence is being able to organize knowledge in a manner that is consistent with ones goals. A person could also say that an intelligent person is one who accomplishes goals and lives a life of meaning and direction. We tend to equate intelligence with success, either in terms of assets or in terms of social and academic achievement or both. If we realize that our definition of intelligence is related to our own perception and that this perception is a product of individual experience, then that definition is by nature limited to our own very narrow conclusions.

There may be intelligence of a different nature. If it is possible to realize the whole field of thought and how the mind actually moves through the ideal of time as a process, then the nature of thought can morph into something that is without a point of reference. That is seeing ones own mind as it actually is in the moment, then true intelligence is being consciously aware of what causes one to act and react. Intelligence then is being consciously aware of the self and its movement as an entity that is bound by the limitations of all its accumulated knowledge and experience. Seeing that one is limited, a persons consciousness can develop a new quality that realizes the moment as something that is without the conditioning of ones accumulations, experience and all the rest of it. The mind that is not bound by the limitations of thoughts narrow field of what is "known" has intelligence that is beyond its own content. True intelligence is the ability to see through a consciousness that is bound by its content as a continuation of what was. The mind seeks out security as that which conforms to a persons vision of what should be or how something should be. So the intelligence that you think you have is bound by the limitations of the entirety or sum total of all experiences and the result of those experiences on the psyche. This is why it so important to realize freedom that negates all the effects of ones past relationship with the sum total of all experiences. A person cannot erase the past but one can realize a consciousness that frees the mind from all attachments to ideals that are the result of experience. Intelligence is a by product of total freedom, the clarity of iconoclastic vision. It is the negation of the authority of the self and of all others, creating an equality of understanding that does not compare or judge. Equality of understanding is a state of mind that is without the barriers of right and wrong, good and bad and so on. It is looking and seeing without the inflective and reflective self. There is no reaction to what is, only action that is the outcome of self realization in the absolute moment. The emerging true self that is without the notion of an ideal defined self. So intelligence is not a product of thoughts manipulations or its accumulated and logically categorized experience. Intelligence is something quite apart from the notion of a mathematical IQ. To this writer it starts with freedom. Freedom that negates all save the truth of the moment as seen by one who realizes the nature of the true self as the reality of that absolute moment.