This, or something like it, is a well known saying. It roughly means that common sense natural perception, uncorrupted by ideology, sees the basic truth about life. People are different, men and women are different, there is a supernatural meaning to the world, an afterlife exists, that sort of thing. But when people are subjected to a certain kind of ideological conditioning and reeducation, they lose their native wit and start imitating what they imagine to be more intellectually correct attitudes. But those few who reject theories and abstractions and are able to look at the world as it is and human beings as they are, develop the direct insight which brings real knowledge. Which is, in fact, the only means to real knowledge. That doesn't mean they are right in all things all the time for they remain subject to human error. But they are largely correct in the broad sweep of things.
It seems clear that as human beings evolve, their intellectual centre, the way they engage with the world, moves. It starts off as an instinctive perception which is God guiding us unconsciously. We don't understand much but we know enough to lead an existence that is more or less in harmony with our immediate environment and the world. This is primitive but it is not out of kilter with reality. As human beings progress and develop intellectually, becoming, in the process, more detached from their environment which makes them better able to understand it on some levels and less able on others, the mental/rational faculties come into play. We lose our connection to Nature and the unconscious oneness with life, and start to guide ourselves from our own understanding.
This is a great step forward but unless it is supported by divine revelation and a proper religion it can lead to blind ignorance as it obviously has now. Reason only operates in the material world which is that of the senses. It cannot rise to higher perception. Consequently we have grown out of the unconscious instinctive mind and into the self-centred mentally focused one and that has now made us prideful enough to reject what cannot be grasped with this new mode of thinking. We desperately need to move on to the next phase for if we don't there is real disaster ahead. We will separate ourselves more and more from reality, ironically enough in the name of reality but a pseudo-reality, of course.
The next phase is the development of intuitive insight, a direct insight into the mind of God. This is the stage when God once again guides us from within but this time the process is conscious. There is an understanding about what we perceive. It is not just instinctive and beyond our control nor is it thinking from a part outside the whole. It is unseparated from being and complete in itself. Thinking is knowing is being, all one movement.
It seems clear that as human beings evolve, their intellectual centre, the way they engage with the world, moves. It starts off as an instinctive perception which is God guiding us unconsciously. We don't understand much but we know enough to lead an existence that is more or less in harmony with our immediate environment and the world. This is primitive but it is not out of kilter with reality. As human beings progress and develop intellectually, becoming, in the process, more detached from their environment which makes them better able to understand it on some levels and less able on others, the mental/rational faculties come into play. We lose our connection to Nature and the unconscious oneness with life, and start to guide ourselves from our own understanding.
This is a great step forward but unless it is supported by divine revelation and a proper religion it can lead to blind ignorance as it obviously has now. Reason only operates in the material world which is that of the senses. It cannot rise to higher perception. Consequently we have grown out of the unconscious instinctive mind and into the self-centred mentally focused one and that has now made us prideful enough to reject what cannot be grasped with this new mode of thinking. We desperately need to move on to the next phase for if we don't there is real disaster ahead. We will separate ourselves more and more from reality, ironically enough in the name of reality but a pseudo-reality, of course.
The next phase is the development of intuitive insight, a direct insight into the mind of God. This is the stage when God once again guides us from within but this time the process is conscious. There is an understanding about what we perceive. It is not just instinctive and beyond our control nor is it thinking from a part outside the whole. It is unseparated from being and complete in itself. Thinking is knowing is being, all one movement.
Clever people are often stupid. By that I mean they don't actually know anything real. This wouldn't matter too much but they think they do and actively reject deeper reality because it goes beyond their understanding. The world is run by such people and our education system turns them out in their thousands. Unless enough people wake up to the higher reality of their own nature and move on from this intellectual dead end into which we have carelessly walked I foresee a collective insanity. Signs of it are already to be seen.