Intellect

Amongst the ‘still-asleep’ (the majority, the omnivore group) there’s something good. There’s wonderful acceptance and beauty and kindness, but nevertheless they are made dull by complicity with animal cruelty. The omnivore always wears the badge of the ‘animal club’. They may seem relaxed about things but those with the loudest inner voice are pushing it down against reflux, pushing down against the devil in us. That voice. That ‘unacceptable attitude-within’. That struggle. It wears people down. It puts life on hold. It has significance in the development of our personality.
Humans solve problems and invent gadgets and, for pragmatic reasons, set the mind to take control. We worship intellect and use it to control things; we attempt soul-control, mind-control, body control … until it all breaks down and we take on a bias. We settle for partiality, where logic rules (‘okay?’) but with exceptions. Like we know we’re capable of love by showing love to dogs but then we have to realise we’re also capable of not-loving pigs. Kind to dogs: murderous towards pigs.
Here’s where the word ‘love’ rings a bit hollow. And it’s where humans, with their fast cognition, are held back by their own thought processes, habits and fears. Essentially we are all held in contract to habit. Self-made and strengthened habits are something of which Western lifestyle is redolent.
Habits call for walls to be built; so omnivores are mainly held back by food walls. Habits are what we don’t want to be reminded of … since we’re afraid of the ‘unspecified dangers’ associated with them. To maximise peace of mind we draw up a contract, something like this:
If we can keep our habits we’ll accept a certain unquestioning attitude to Present Day Reality – a little nonsense mixed into our truth-pie. When we enter a ‘no-thought-zone’ we go for what looks real. Reality trumps intellect. For habit-driven people, in that zone, life is doing what we want without “thought”, ‘thought’ being associate with pain, and self-brought-on pain at that. If we’re in the grip of the ‘no-think-world’ we won’t see the potential of humanity.
Like our friend Mother Nature, this very potential invites us to the dance tonight. R.s.v.p.! This is the dance of balancing “thought” with “no-thought”, in which we aren’t afraid to be ourselves. Not afraid to unafraided-ly THINK about certain things and use intellect for the purpose to which it was intended.