Intuition & Logic
While eating my dinner outside during a warm summer’s night, I noticed an intriguing event I’ve never seen on my balcony: a spider spinning its web from start to finish. With fascination, I observed this phenomena for the next 20-30 minutes as I finished my food. I was filled with wonder how this tiny arachnid had the intelligence to create this intricate piece of architecture with such precision. I thought there must be a blueprint within this spider's system that gives him the exact instructions on how to build the geometrically sound form. As far as I am aware, there’s no such thing as a spider school where spider students sit in their spider classroom being taught by a spider teacher propounding a web structure curriculum. No; they simply just know. Not from past information they have gathered, but through the natural gift of instinctive intuition. I further wondered how these universally unmanifested schematics affect the human race.
I often look at popular inventions, perceiving them as manifested three dimensional ideas, with awe at how they exist. For example, the computer I’m using to create this article: was its design simply conjured from thin air, iterated slowly from past data procured by the inventor, or was the computer already here? My guess is everything a creature of planet Earth can create is not made from nothing, but from a nebulous blueprint which already exists within the ether. As human beings, we have incredible sensitivity to dimensions of life beyond merely just the physical, so it’s possible we have access to information present on more subtle planes. How else was the lightbulb, the airplane, or the car invented? They must have been unimaginable to those who lived without them. Even now if we look closely at the science behind these now indispensable tools, there’s magic in them.
Where did these ideas even come from? Any creative person understands that the process of implementation is step by step as all others are, but the ephemeral vision of something new can & will immediately appear within the firmament of one’s mind. If one looks closely at this pattern, they will see it is only the context surrounding the spontaneous idea which one can ponder, not the idea itself because the nature of the mind does not allow for one to think about innovation. We can only think about what currently exists or what existed in the past. Every strike of genius, of intuition, that a person has when he’s manifesting the unmanifested is truly a miracle of which no human being can dwindle down to scientific reasoning. In fact, a gap in logic is necessary for the evolution of everything. Yet our culture relies so heavily on the limitations of logic for parading our narrow perceptions of sanity. This close-minded “mental stability” can cause stagnation within individuals that in turn create the ruin of organizations. It’s happened time & time again throughout history that nations have fallen due to leadership who desired to maintain their limited definitions of sanity propagated as the status quo. Every resurgence of society has come from the minds of those who acknowledge the context of where they live, but simultaneously open their minds enough to receive novel ideas from a place beyond their culture.
It requires courage to trust new information because it has zero social support. Nearly all of us only attribute value to something because others do. It’s an instinctual force that keeps us alive as one of nature’s laws is strength in numbers. This desire for survival moves through every living force on Earth. But the natural expansion of the universe will always pull us with it because we as human beings have the antenna which receives the subtle signals of the cosmos. So, it's our choice to either experience the discomfort of stagnation caused by ignorance or growth caused by consciousness. “The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither” - Confucius.
