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Deep Intelligence
 Deep Intelligence may be understood as our ability to prosper through connectedness with the world. The conventional notion of intelligence is about being 'in' the world, but experiencing the self as separate from it. Deep Intelligence is about living by means of the world, intimately connected with it. In the common view of intelligence, we 'know' about the world, but only in an abstract, interpretive way, as something external and alien. We 'know' things and relate to them as abstractions, as objects of generalisations – by labels, categories and definitions. With Deep Intelligence, we live with the world. Deep Intelligence is our ability to prosper through conscious and intentional coordination of the inner and outer faculties of our being with the inner and outer qualities of the world through which we live.
From the book, Deep Intelligence: Giving Our Young the Education they Really Need, NOW AVAILABLE HERE:
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...we can provide educative experiences that help young people to engage all the faculties of their consciousness as they live 'with' the world. We can educate them so that their perception and experience of the world is not dominated by the constructions, limitations and distortions of the discriminative intellect, not dominated by rigid patterns of memory, definitions, expectations and judgements. They can know people, objects and phenomena freshly, by a delicate but profound relatedness or identity with them. We can help them to live with a kind of 'deep intelligence', intimately and dynamically connected with the world. What a world it will be, when we do! What a world it will be, when we take the lid off humanity. What tears of joy we will shed, when our education programs help us all to manage consciousness so we live with Deep Intelligence, having the universe in harmony with us.
As it is, the mass of humanity lives, in varying degrees, in an alienated mode of being, dominated by a sense of self-as-separate...
The basis of our suffering is our identification with the contents of our mind. The basis of our weakness, insecurity, worry, struggle, emptiness, fear of lack and loss, and destructive drives and motivations, is our attachment to learned control mechanisms, to our knowledge. But we have within us, all of what it takes to manifest now a very different kind of experience, a different way of being in the world. We can manage all the faculties of our consciousness so that we transcend the prejudice of learned knowledge, and dance in the wisdom of the moment.
As we begin to experience freedom from identification with mind, we are filled with an awareness of our true self as peace, joy and oneness with all life. People, things and events lose their power to trouble and manipulate us. We perceive everything in the world as it truly is, filled with beauty, love and a deeper truth than our intellect is able to fathom. Our uniquely individual expression of talents and abilities comes to reflect a creativity that taps the life force power of the universe. Our expression arises, not from mind, but from Being, so that it respects, nurtures and prospers ourselves, others and the world with which we live.
For civilisation to make a transition from the alienated mode of existence to one characterised, not by the idea, but by the experience of connectedness, prosperity and cooperation with the natural world, all we need do is begin to play the instrument of our whole human 'being'.
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