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Recieved: 2003/05/28 00:02
Subject: Re: [K-list] In Honour of Intellect
From: Julie D
On 2003/05/28 00:02, Julie D posted thus to the K-list:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I have often been accused of being too intellectual, too, so I know how
you
> feel. It has often felt like my rational argument or observation has been
> shot down without reasonable consideration. Whenever a person, Master or
> otherwise, offers some type of theory or philosophy on anything they use
> this very human function to do it.
>
> I have found that often the people most critical of the use of intellect
are
> those that have shut their feelings down in order to develop their
rational
> faculty and then they have rediscovered their feelings and can't believe
> that they could have lived without them. What has happened is that they
> have swung from on pole of functioning to the other. I have done this
> myself. I think that this swinging is possibly the way that our Soul
seeks
> to balance it's functions.
>
> I sometimes think of the functions of feeling and intellectual reasoning
as
> being like a woman and a man living inside my head. (Did you ever see the
> sitcom Herman's Head.) They work much better when they are in congress
and
> enamoured with each other. Never the less the arguments challenge each
> function to higher levels of operation.
>
> The problem as I see it is that so many people in this world are
completely
> identified with their intellect. This seems to be the cultural mean in
this
> time and it is rather dangerous. Both men and women in general are often
> living according to ideals based on abstract ideals without giving their
> feeling nature a decent hearing.
>
> Did you know that Hitler was an occultist who probably had a partial
> kundalini awakening in his youth. At one stage he made the comment to one
> of his general's "The purpose of life is to gain a mystic view of the
> universe." Like many of us he had seen that humanity was in the process
of
> evolving to something greater, a "super race." Yet the methods he used in
> order to aid this were so inhumane. It seems clear to me that he had
> disassociated from his feeling nature and was relying solely on his
> intellectual function for information about his world on all but a very
> personal level. (He cried when his canary died.)
>
> I loved the double helix analogy too.
>
> I agree with your comments on the intellect. We can't afford to ignore it
> either for the reasons you state. Perhaps the swing back to valuing the
> feelings over the intellect in many spiritual circles is the way the World
> Soul, or the Western World Soul is attempting to balance it's functions on
a
> grand scale.
>
> I've just rejoined this list after a very long absence and it feels good
to
> be here. I have a sister who has CFC that I believe is K related. I
would
> like to hear from anyone who has had experience with this syndrome. I'm
> hoping someone might be able to help.
>
> Regards,
> Julie.
>
>
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