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David Bohm suggests that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are shifting emphasis in the directing of our actions from INTELLIGENCE to RATIONAL INTELLECTION.  While INTELLIGENCE may give us a deeper and more profound understanding of unfolding events, RATIONAL INTELLECTION makes use of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR to imply LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments.  As Bohm points out, the death of Abraham Lincoln can INTELLIGENTLY be understood as drawing from the transforming relational continuum, from the unfolding dynamics of society including its inventions of gunpowder and pistols.

As indigenous aboriginal cultures likewise point out, the violent act of murder or rape derives from the ongoing relational dynamics of community where ‘mitakuye oyasin’ (everything is related) is the reality so that a HEALING CIRCLE assembled for the purpose of recultivating harmony in the social-relational matrix is more appropriate than the identification and elimination of a notional ‘pathogenic source’.  That is, the point of the eruption is not assumed to be the LOCAL SOURCE of the pathology.  In fact, NO SOURCE IS ASSUMED.  As in modern physics, the operative dynamic is understood as TRANSFORMATION which is all-including. The challenge is therefore to restore and restore relational balance and harmony.     The WESTERN concept of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and developments has its origin in EGO and is conceptualized in language via the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.

The following note explores how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are, as Bohm suggests, falling into the trap of using RATIONAL INTELLECTION as if it were our only interpretive tool, leaving INTELLIGENCE behind in the background.  RATIONAL INTELLECTION pursues understanding or unfolding reality in a LOCAL SOURCING sense as captured with the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR as associates with PRODUCTION/CREATION and CONSUMPTION/DESTRUCTION, whereas INTELLIGENCE understands dynamics in terms of relational TRANSFORMATION.  While RATIONAL INTELLECTION sees the GROWTH of the TOWN, INTELLIGENCE understands TRANSFORMATION of the landscape including the SHRINKAGE of the Wilderness.

ARE WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS INVERTING THE NATURAL PRECEDENCE OF INTELLIGENCE OVER RATIONAL INTELLECTION?

Bohm’s suggestion is YES, as is supported by this sensory-experience-based philosophical-intuitive investigation.

 

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Imagine a landscape in a time of turmoil where people are scattering and gathering wherein at a particular location where people are scattering and gathering, there appears a TOWN that continues to GROW in size even though it is only a relative scattering and gathering place.   We may use the word TOWN to point to this ‘scatter-gather’ apparition and even speak of the GROWTH of the TOWN although what is really going on in is that the entire LANDSCAPE is in a continual condition of TRANSFORMATION and the notion of the LOCAL EXISTENCE of a TOWN and ‘its GROWTH’ is secondary to the gathering and scattering in the landscape in turmoil.  As in the central courtyard of a busy shopping mall, there may be a persisting crowd of people but that persisting ‘thing’ is just illusion deriving from ceaseless gathering and scattering.  We may NAME it ‘THE CENTRAL COURTYARD CROWD’ and say that IT IS GROWING as if it were a LOCAL thing-in-itself with its own powers of SOURCING actions and development although it is a relational scattering-gathering.,

The following discussion explores how our WESTERN CULTURE rational intellection uses language to construct abstract conceptualizations of reality that we have been increasingly substituting for our intelligence based understanding.   As David Bohm points out, ‘rational intellection’ is a reduced way of understanding than ‘intuition’ and ‘intelligence’; e.g.  our intelligence can inform us of inclusion in TRANSFORMATION which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT while rational intellection can only reach as far as PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION (GROWTH and REDUCTION) which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT.

There are problems with our WESTERN CULTURE habit of shifting our understanding of reality increasingly onto the basis of RATIONAL INTELLECTION wherein the abstraction of GROWTH deceptively replaces TRANSFORMATION.

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