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rationalized this "creative act" (the creation
of the web) as his best means to acquire food, but he spins because
he is programmed to spin and his internal wiring provides him with
no alternative solution to the survival problem. I arbitrarily
assign the spider an RQ of about 30, considerably lower than a dog,
although the dog shows no creative designs whatever. The dog, along
with his peers the whale and the chimp, scores in the 80 to 90
range because he does frequently exhibit some sort of reflective
thought process, however rudimentary, and sometimes displays
altruistic behavior.
The man or woman who paints a picture of the
spider and his web deserves a 100 + score even though the painting
is less utilitarian than the actual web because RQ is a measure of
awareness, not survivability, and the evidence suggests that the
painter is considerably more aware of the spatial relationships of
the web than the spider is, despite the fact that the spider
depends upon the web for survival while the painter does not.
There is no evidence even
to suggest that the spider is "aware" of any objective reality
beyond his web. Like us, he creates his own world, but it is not a
world of consciousness. The spider's web is his universe; objects
that become trapped within it must seem (to the spider, if be
thought about it) to have magically appeared from some other
world.
But even the aboriginal
human receives an RQ= 100. Surprising, really, how few of us have
reached beyond that point. A genuine mystic or gifted theoretical
physicist would score closer to the 200 mark. Most of us, you and
I, fall somewhere between.
But we are discussing,
remember, the perception of the one reality. You may recall something I
said earlier about "the common logic" and the quotation from Dr.
Rhine concerning the superficiality of common human perception. I
must emphasize that there is but one reality, though the superficial distinctions of that reality that are superimposed upon it by
the way our minds work produce conflicting versions of what that
reality is.
At the aboriginal human
level two basic views, or "superimpositions," tell us that the
world is at once both physical and nonphysical, tangible and
intangible, logical and magical. This is the RQ=100 reality. It is
also a very innocent reality. As the human psyche develops, begins
rationalizing and synthesizing experience, explodes into
intellectual and utilitarian (technological) sophistication, the
one (right-brained) view goes into eclipse and the other
(left-brained) view begins to dominate in such a way that the human
world has become almost singularly physical, tangible, and
logical— in the common reality. This is a natural consequence of our apparently
innate fascination with the dissection and analysis of reality. To
dissect and analyze is to use the linear processes of the left
brain. Both philosophy and science have led us along this narrow
trail to the present, more or less common, worldview of a linear,
cause-effect universe, which is validly
perceived only by the senses. Thusly we
have seen a general evolution of "the common sense" to a point
where it no longer serves or even fuels our researches; it is a
linear, material, mechanical model of the universe—a sensory universe—and a
dead end for science. That dead end moved us to an RQ of about 120.
So those of us who are comfortable there have also reached the end
of our individual evolutionary trail, stuck at around
120.
Look at the words we live
by: nonsense (foolishness); senseless (irrational, unconscious, incapable
of feeling or perception); sensible (of good judgment, understanding); sensibility (discerning
judgment, power to perceive). Our most hallowed concepts of the
sane reality all deal with sense
perception . Thus any idea or knowledge
gained by other means is immediately and prejudicially declared to
be "nonsense" (right; nonsensory, therefore unworthy of
consideration; insane ). Not by science, not in today's RQ=200
of the web) as his best means to acquire food, but he spins because
he is programmed to spin and his internal wiring provides him with
no alternative solution to the survival problem. I arbitrarily
assign the spider an RQ of about 30, considerably lower than a dog,
although the dog shows no creative designs whatever. The dog, along
with his peers the whale and the chimp, scores in the 80 to 90
range because he does frequently exhibit some sort of reflective
thought process, however rudimentary, and sometimes displays
altruistic behavior.
The man or woman who paints a picture of the
spider and his web deserves a 100 + score even though the painting
is less utilitarian than the actual web because RQ is a measure of
awareness, not survivability, and the evidence suggests that the
painter is considerably more aware of the spatial relationships of
the web than the spider is, despite the fact that the spider
depends upon the web for survival while the painter does not.
There is no evidence even
to suggest that the spider is "aware" of any objective reality
beyond his web. Like us, he creates his own world, but it is not a
world of consciousness. The spider's web is his universe; objects
that become trapped within it must seem (to the spider, if be
thought about it) to have magically appeared from some other
world.
But even the aboriginal
human receives an RQ= 100. Surprising, really, how few of us have
reached beyond that point. A genuine mystic or gifted theoretical
physicist would score closer to the 200 mark. Most of us, you and
I, fall somewhere between.
But we are discussing,
remember, the perception of the one reality. You may recall something I
said earlier about "the common logic" and the quotation from Dr.
Rhine concerning the superficiality of common human perception. I
must emphasize that there is but one reality, though the superficial distinctions of that reality that are superimposed upon it by
the way our minds work produce conflicting versions of what that
reality is.
At the aboriginal human
level two basic views, or "superimpositions," tell us that the
world is at once both physical and nonphysical, tangible and
intangible, logical and magical. This is the RQ=100 reality. It is
also a very innocent reality. As the human psyche develops, begins
rationalizing and synthesizing experience, explodes into
intellectual and utilitarian (technological) sophistication, the
one (right-brained) view goes into eclipse and the other
(left-brained) view begins to dominate in such a way that the human
world has become almost singularly physical, tangible, and
logical— in the common reality. This is a natural consequence of our apparently
innate fascination with the dissection and analysis of reality. To
dissect and analyze is to use the linear processes of the left
brain. Both philosophy and science have led us along this narrow
trail to the present, more or less common, worldview of a linear,
cause-effect universe, which is validly
perceived only by the senses. Thusly we
have seen a general evolution of "the common sense" to a point
where it no longer serves or even fuels our researches; it is a
linear, material, mechanical model of the universe—a sensory universe—and a
dead end for science. That dead end moved us to an RQ of about 120.
So those of us who are comfortable there have also reached the end
of our individual evolutionary trail, stuck at around
120.
Look at the words we live
by: nonsense (foolishness); senseless (irrational, unconscious, incapable
of feeling or perception); sensible (of good judgment, understanding); sensibility (discerning
judgment, power to perceive). Our most hallowed concepts of the
sane reality all deal with sense
perception . Thus any idea or knowledge
gained by other means is immediately and prejudicially declared to
be "nonsense" (right; nonsensory, therefore unworthy of
consideration; insane ). Not by science, not in today's RQ=200
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