Back Into Balance

Knowing stuff takes time. Knowing how to do things. Knowing how to use a computer. Knowing how to speak a language. 

This is all in the realm of accumulating knowledge to be skillful in something. It is a matter of storing up enough memory and then recalling it. It takes time.

It seems to me though that there is some other form of intelligence that operates within us. A form of intelligence that is not accumulated but is revealed holistically - all at once. These experiences sometimes overwhelm the intellect and change our perception of ourself and our life. 

This other state, this other form of intelligence is not accumulated. You don't learn just one fragment and then stack it on another. Rather, you see the whole thing at once. It is a breakthrough, a transformation, where before the insight you see things one way and after it you see things another way.

This form of intelligence has nothing to do with spreadsheets and data points, but it can give insight on how best to use them. It is like a light in the dark room. It reveals things that we had no idea were there. It makes us capable of things that we didn't know we could achieve. It makes us aware of more than just the single part and expands our view to the whole.

Baseball players and other athletes call this "being in the zone", artists call it inspiration, scientists call it a quantum leap, monks call it samadhi.

I feel like exploring this kind of intelligence is the key to bringing ourselves back into balance and order, and by doing that, we in turn begin bringing the whole of humanity back into balance and order.