Es people live in an environment surrounded by distractions and noises, connecting with one’s higher useful intelligence is sometimes hard. However, there is an understanding of the awakening of intelligence as the internal and unrepeatable genius, which can improve each person’s work and life.
At Cqaedu, we have come to realize that education is not just confined to a book or a classroom. It is about the cultivation of the heart and being more fully awake. The suggested concept epitomized by Jiddu Krishnamurti is regarding the state of enlightenment that people can achieve even while going about mundane activities.
The awakening of intelligence is not a process of getting smart or becoming a know-it. It is the novel perception where a person can look at things from an uncolored perspective that is void of prejudices. This kind of intelligence is therefore characterized by a process of asking questions about oneself and the world with a view of arriving at an accurate understanding of the self.
In his book, not titled, The Awakening of Intelligence, Krishnamurti digs deeply into what it implies to wake up intelligence. As per him, it is not a stupid process of accumulating facts, or rather trying to solve some puzzles but trying to perceive life, without the screens of the conditioned mind. This awakening of intelligence is about presenting oneself with the current state of affairs and relations in a way that is free from what is experienced as negative or uncomfortable memories based on the past.
An important component of the process of intelligence awakening is realizing oneself. This includes facing oneself and exploring the why and how behind every thought and feeling that one has. Krishnamurti also teaches people to study their thoughts with no intention of condemning them, which enlightens people concerning their true state. This practice enables a person to free oneself from the given tendencies and preprogrammed behaviors.
A powerful idea of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s The Awakening of Intelligence centers on liberation from conditioned thought. Kids are made to reason and respond in specific manners starting from their childhood. Conditioned thoughts most of the time obscure our vision of perceptive reality. Mr Krishnamurti, however, calls upon society to thrive on these norms and ask questions that society does not wish to ask, seeking knowledge that society is afraid to seek.
One of the major functions of meditation, as it applies to the process of awakening intelligence, is thus seen as paramount. When meditating, one can free his or her mind from the business of the world and connect with his or her inner person. The lack of a specific technique that one must adhere to while meditating is in Krishnamurti’s mediation with his ideas encompassing passive awareness of thoughts and feelings. Such awareness makes one to be able to embrace the web of relationships that bind everything in life.
Thus, the means that bring the awakening of intelligence also bring deep changes in daily existence. There is increased paying of attention to others in addition to increased compassion and patience. Thus, the state of awakened intelligence assists the person in handling different situations in life appropriately. We take actions that reflect one’s genuine preferences and are free from biases such as the fear of losing something or the desire for something.
The nine books of Jiddu Krishnamurti The purpose of these books Among the nine books of Jiddu Krishnamurti his followers believe that all of his work is a part of a single book which is written venerated as the holy book.
Jiddu Krishnamurti’s work Exploitation and the Awakening of Intelligence, in particular, has a global appeal among people. His teachings are about introspection and are dissenting in the strictest sense of the word. Although Krishnamurti’s strategies of self-evolution continue to hold some relevance in the contemporary world, they help people discover themselves and the environment they live in.
The awakening of intelligence is used to explain the emergence of a person’s consciousness about the intelligence that she or he possesses. That is indeed what ‘[it is] an about transcending the conditioned mind’, For there is more to learn than what is stored in the preconditioned mind. It includes the practice of being aware, receptive, and skeptical of what is being taken for granted.
Here are the various approaches on how to stimulate human intelligence and free the spirit of enlightenment. One of them is the vast effort on developing a growth mindset which means personal belief in the general capacity to change. This kind of mindset will enable one to look forward to challenges and view them not as threats, but as potentials. Also, the concepts of mindfulness and meditation can be beneficial to slow down the mind’s chatter, and, thus, regain communication with the inner self.
It is noteworthy that curiosity is one of the key driving forces that becomes the starting signal for the awakening of intelligence. When the child comes to life, nothing is forbidden, everything can be investigated and everything is allowed. Such a level of openness helps one to alter perception about certain things, or issues and liberate oneself from repetitive thoughts. That is to say, when one attends to this curiosity, the mind is expanded, and one is in tune with an intrinsic brilliance.
Another important element of the process of intelligence awakening is the understanding of the fact that one has to accept the lack of definite answers and uncertainties. In life, you can NEVER know everything, and life is filled with uncertainties. As we come to terms with not necessarily having all of the answers all of the time, then we are setting ourselves up for extensive creative thinking. It is noble to remember that uncertainty is not necessarily bad in the sense that it makes people step out of their comfort zones and incubate thoughts that they would not normally conceive of.
Would you believe that thousands of years ago there existed entire cultures that understood and experienced consciousness better than we do? None of us were there so we cannot be sure but it certainly seems so from the mythology and history of those times. Even today, if you visit an Indian village and interact with people, there is an openness about them that will take you by surprise.
The difference is this. When we live a simple life in harmony with nature, when no dominant belief systems make and keep us afraid, we experience our consciousness in an expanded way quite frequently. In those expanded states, it is easy to experience positive emotions: love, kindness, curiosity, courage. In this way, those simple village people have much more emotional intelligence than most sophisticated in rich countries.
Civilization happens when humans interact with one another with positivity at least as often as negativity. When civilization happens, we as an entire society become more creative; this is the way we have great literature, great arts, and great classical music, even though in those ancient times people lacked science and technology, and comfortable living.
The Awakening of Intelligence
Knowledge states define intelligence as the immobility of knowledge and skills as well as the capacity to attain and use knowledge and skills. It encompasses the ability to use strategies that are logical to solve issues, engaging in abstract thinking together with learning from experiences. However, intelligence is not only in the sphere of knowledge or results of academic performance. It also consists of emotional intelligence, defined as the capacity to perceive and appraise both oneself and others’ feelings.
Intelligence is the ability to make the best of what you have—manifest and in potential–to respond to situations. The problem is ignorance. If you have abilities, but you don’t know them, what then? The intelligent thing to do is to re-discover what you have.
In the middle of the twentieth century, America was at a crossroads. Several things happened. There was material affluence which released in some people a curiosity and urge for satisfying higher needs. And right then, teachers from the Eastern countries, Japan and India especially, came and taught meditative techniques to young Americans. On top of it, there were native American and Mexican Shamans who introduced “spiritual” plant extracts to experimenting young people supplemented by West’s discovery of hallucinogens, especially LSD.
The great novelist Aldous Huxley called all these phenomena “opening the doors of perception.” What was he talking about? Expansion of consciousness. That factor that we call quantum nonlocality; nonlocality that opens us to so many more avenues for intelligent play that we mentioned in the last two chapters.
Athletes like Einstein also make the point that raw intelligence is not a static characteristic, but something that should be nurtured over time. There are several ways to cultivate intelligence, including There are several ways to cultivate intelligence, including:
Continuously try to learn and gain more knowledge of the different things that are around you. Learn new things, expand their book rental list buy different types of books, and communicate with interesting people.
Challenge facts, look at things more critically, and become an active and multilateral info seeker. This will contribute to the task of learning complex issues in a much better way.
Perform different activities, that incline to mindfulness, for instance, practicing yoga and meditation can boost focus, concentration, and even temper regulation.
Though they may vary from one person to another, they can include the following: Take a balanced diet, practice, have adequate sleep, and manage stress well. People also need fit physical well-being to accompany a healthy mental state of affairs in the country.
We raised the question earlier if materialist science was created as a conspiracy to destroy Christianity as some claim. Could materialist science come about as a reaction to the re-enchantment of America that was happening in the sixties, seventies, and eighties’ America?
Anyhow, the advent of materialist science and course the Christian retaliation (moral majority) gave us the worldview polarization we see today. But that new age movement of those times, 1960-1990, did not entirely fail. It created what today we call the quantum science of consciousness.
In materialist science, there is no room for consciousness. It is based on Newtonian physics which delves with the world as a bunch of objects. Locality (all communication needs signals), causality (only cause, no purpose can change the movement of things), continuity, (all movement is continuous), and objectivity (how we see things must be independent of us), these are inviolable tenets of Newtonian physics; add to that the idea of material monism and you’ve got materialist science. Consciousness, on the contrary, must introduce a foreign concept to objective science—a subject or self. Even materialists cannot deny something called subjective qualia of our experience that needs to be explained.
Thus, intelligence is much more than mere faculty in a person. It can have a profound impact on every aspect of our lives, including It can have a profound impact on every aspect of our lives, including:
Smart people are usually successful at their workplace because they easily understand information, can quickly change their attitudes and easily solve problems.
Everyone is capable of learning EI skills and utilizing them to foster good interpersonal relations, problem-solving, and interpersonal communication with others.
Intelligence can also be developed which increases one’s awareness of self, increases confidence, and makes life rich.
What is a subject or self? The way it was recognized and experienced in ancient times, it is the subject pole of awareness which has two poles: subject and object. In other words, the subject is that quality of an experience that makes us the experiencer, that gives us the ability to experience objects separate from us.
The Apple Mac thesaurus refuses to give a synonym that is anywhere close to this meaning. So, we tried a synonym of subject—self. This time the Thesaurus responded with ego. That’s something. Is ego an object? No, not completely, there is that subjective qualia, at least that is part of the ego that distinguishes it from the objects.
It is not the fault of thesauruses or dictionaries; they depend on the prevalent culture. The culture today has been much influenced by materialism which sees everything as objects. Then materialists try to find a scientific explanation of subjective qualia as guess what—an object. This is why the psychologist Abraham Maslow said If you have a hammer in your hand and nothing else, you see the world as nails.”
The question in our present context is this: is seeing yourself as the experiencer of the world an ability that is desirable to you? It is a favorite saying of today: We are at the crossroads. Yes, we are. And of all these important choices of intelligence you have to make, one is right here: do you want to be an experiencer, the subject pole of an experience, of the objects of the world, objects of your experience? Or is it ok for you to continue living like the “more or less” object, a robot with experience—the me-centered way materialist scientists depict you?
Therefore, how can the best potential of intelligence be realized and feel the beginning of the operation of the mind? That is why it starts with the recognition of ourselves and our spirituality and our willingness to question the things that we know. There is nothing like challenging the intellect with reading, problem-solving, and creativity amongst other things, this helps in expanding the mind hence reaching the inner self.
When you have an expanded state of consciousness take notice. You will find that your experiences are more vivid. This is because you are more of an experience in those states. Your ability to experience things has been enhanced. It is ok to be a computer of artificial intelligence (although you never know it); it is certainly ok to be a human robot with experience; but it is worthwhile to explore your enhanced I-ness (Sanskrit asmita). The Sanskrit word for me-centeredness is idamasmita which translates as I-am-this-ness.
Sanskrit is an old language spoken thousands of years ago. But this language has two different words, one for I-ness (asmita) and one for ego (idamasmita which means I am this or I am me). This is why we suspect that in those days people experienced their subjecthood as both I and I-me—mostly my ego.
Anyway, the good news is that now it is all scientific. In quantum science, we call the experience of I-ness the quantum self-experience. We theorize that our brain makes the memory of that experience and all future experiences of a similar stimulus will be “reflected in the mirror of previous memories,” and this is what gives us the ego’s conditioned spectrum of experiences. In this way, quantum science predicts that there is a quantum self in addition to ego-self and also there is a preconscious between the two experiences which we enter when we meditate.
In our book, The Quantum Brain, all the details of this are explained, and the data in its favor is discussed. For the sake of completeness, we will give you a little bit of a history of where the ancient knowledge was, where it got bogged down, and how we re-discovered all that lost knowledge in modern times.
What is the world made of? This is posited to us the modern people as a question that forever introduces a blinder in us. The world is made of stars, galaxies, and all the objects around us. Of course! From then we take it for granted; it does not surprise us when some scientist claims that everything is made of elementary particles. Or that if we ever solve the mysteries of how elementary particles tick, we will find the answer to everything. And then from that vantage point, the question of solving the problem of subjective qualia seems like a question of the complexity of the brain.
In a different time, 7000 years ago in India, there lived also researchers, people just like us, but also different in one important way—a different culture in which people’s experiences were vivid with subjectivity. They would wonder about the stars, but they would wonder more about this inner enchantment, where does that come from?
It was easier to meditate than go out and find ways such as building a telescope to look at those stars better. Meditation deepened their curiosity, at moments of deep meditation it felt so expanded.
So, they meditated and meditated and meditated. They concentrated on the problem, and in between they relaxed, but the burning question never left them. If one of our creativity researchers kept notes, he would have written in his diary: this is a pretty good bunch of creative dudes practicing do-be-do-be-do on their burning question, Where does the enchantment come from? (By the way, do-be-do-be-do is an abbreviated way of describing the creative process leading to an insight—alternate preparation and doing and relaxation and being.)
Then one day, one of the researchers fell into a state of deep unconsciousness, and yet it was not ordinary sleep. When he woke up from it, there was so much joy! He declared, “Listen ye, listen ye, Oh, sons and daughters of the immortal, I have seen the light behind the darkness.” Reality is Consciousness, an Oneness from which arises the manifest world of experience, of separateness. The “I” that we experience comes from consciousness; so do the objects on earth and in the sky. Yes, the stars, the galaxies, they are out there, but they begin here, referring to consciousness in the suchness of its revelation.
Alright, it probably did not quite happen this way, the records of those olden days are fragmented. But do you see?
Many people did not see; they were not researchers, they were thinkers. We call them philosophers today. Figuring out everything via rational thinking. No meditation, no do-be-do-be-do, no waiting for insight. If you look at the problem of consciousness this way, two conflicting ways of thinking would develop:
Buddhism
Then a follower of Buddhism came up with the solution: Oneness is nothingness, no-thing-ness. Out of the nothingness, spontaneously arise both the experiencer subject and the experienced object. Manifest reality is a gift of dependent co-arising (Sanskrit: Pattitia sammutpada). Codependency (feedback) of the two poles of awareness eventually led to the ego.
This should have solved the problem, but it did not. Non-Buddhists did not like the idea of nothingness. Nothing comes from nothing.
So, humanity went into confusion; civilizations came and went. China, Greece, Rome, the Middle East, and the West Europeans. Modern science was created and the materialists seemed to have won. The old view continued, however, in the minds of many, including religionists; its utility—value education stood huge in these people’s minds and could not be denied. Until recently. Now even the religionists are cynical. That leaves about fifteen percent of humanity who still cares about values, human civilization, higher needs, and higher intelligence.
In the first phase, pre-World War II, physicists proclaimed:
1) Matter and its close cousin energy both consist of elementary particles; the elementary particles of energy were called quanta (plural of quantum).
2) The solution of the equation of motion of these elementary particles revealed that they are not particles in their suchness: they are waves. Experiments such as the famous double slit experiment (go to U tube for a good visual explanation of such an experiment) demonstrated that we never see quantum objects as waves, our attempt to see them converts them into particles. The conversion was called the collapse of the wave into a particle.
3) If two waves interact, they achieve a special state of correlation also called entanglement, a state in which they communicate instantly; this state sustains even if the objects move galaxies apart. This is the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlation.
Unfortunately, the pioneers did not do a good job in searching for a meaning of all this. That was done in a second phase beginning in the fifties, post-World War II.
4) This phase was kicked off by the development of a quantum measurement theory—a detailed theory of how the quantum collapse of a wave into a particle takes place when we observe. It was mathematically shown that a) collapse requires a nonmaterial agency, material interactions cannot collapse quantum waves; this is the famous von Neuman’s theorem. b) Von Neuman also postulated that a nonmaterial agency was needed and that it was the observer’s self-consciousness. A wave implies an object of many positions; a particle can occupy only one position at a time. So clearly, the observer’s consciousness chooses the position where the particle will manifest; c) collapse is discontinuous, as in quantum leaps of creativity.
This was the first exuberant event in the minds of new-age consciousness researchers who coined the slogan, “We create our reality.” Unfortunately, these very important ideas were dismissed because of a paradox: if there are two observers of the same collapse event, who gets to choose the position of the manifest particle?
Thus came the famous Bell’s theorem and the physicist David Bohm’s idea of how using a correlated state of two electrons called the “singlet state,” one spins one way, the other the opposite way, the theorem could be tested.
This also created an exuberance among new Agers who sang:
6) Alain Aspect and his collaborators verified instant communication between correlated quantum objects. Instant communication implied signal-less communication, implying that the quantum waves reside in a domain of reality outside of space and time because, in space and time, all objects communicate with signals. Eventually, quantum waves began to be called waves of possibility, and the domain of their inhabitance was the domain of potentiality.
This also created a lot of excitement from the scientists and consciousness researchers. In the corridor of a conference hotel, one physicist was heard to retort to another angrily, “If one does not understand the importance of Aspect’s experiment, he has to have rocks in his head.” Indeed so. In everything-is-matter philosophy, nonlocality is a no-no; material interactions cannot simulate nonlocality.
7) One physicist soon after had an insight that correlated all these earlier findings in one coherent new scientific paradigm of reality: Consciousness, a potential oneness, is the ground of all being presiding over the domain of potentiality in which quantum possibility waves of both subject-potentialities (e.g. an observer’s brain) and object potentialities (e.g. an electron) reside. In a collapse event, the oneness splits into a subject/self and object(s) as consciousness identifies with the observer’s brain.
The ground of being is an oneness-consciousness. Who gets to choose in the observer effect? Both in their Oneness or no one but the oneness if you prefer. However, remember that the observer’s consciousness is not separate from the Oneness. It is just that the ego loses most of its causal potency because of all that reflection in the mirror of memory.
One sad thing to note. This time, hardly any physicist rejoiced, even the newagers. Fortunately, there was a lot of excitement from psychologists and even a few religionists. One new-age physicist said, “Goswami has gone too far.”
Ok, you guessed it. The last insight above was due to Amit, one of the coauthors here. Why the resistance? Because the new paradigm threatens to integrate science and spirituality. The new view is this: if we do science with the primacy of consciousness as the base, then only, quantum physics becomes paradox-free. However, the primacy of consciousness is a view that is incomprehensible to people who have very infrequent experiences of expanded consciousness. And that means most people of the world except the fifteen percent we keep talking about.
What is remarkable here is that 85% also include most of the people of religion including Indian Hinduism. Only people who have some sort of meditative practice can appreciate the value of this quantum synthesis.
For millennia, we have lived with the idea of oneness, even the idea of dependent co-arising—how one becomes many; even so, the Eastern religions are considered to be mystic in the West instead of engaging with the science behind these ideas.
Ok, in the West, Christianity prevails. But even the founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ also enunciated the concept of Oneness of consciousness and the problem of explaining the many. He called it the above and below dichotomy, more sophisticated language would call it the transcendent-immanent dichotomy in the evocative words from the Gospel of Thomas.
Quantum science has finally given us a way of investigating reality in its enchanted suchness, in simple words, how to live with higher intelligence, no ignorance, no conflicts.
At Cqaedu, it is our greatest realization of the necessity of the so-called stirring up of intelligence. It is a process of challenging one’s mind, unlearning, and opting for a state of conscious inaction. The reader is presented with a way of how to look at this world according to the principles of Jiddu Krishnamurti, particularly with the help of his work The Awakening of Intelligence. This awakening is not just for one’s enhancement but it is for the evolution of the human society and the inevitable progression towards a society that is harmonious and accepting.
It means that the awakening of intelligence is the Process by which one can achieve the ability to receive enlightenment and consequently, come up with new ideas as well as develop an enhanced personality and awareness of the surrounding world. Through practicing conscious awareness, focusing on creativity, and relying on instincts one can develop what can be targeted as inner brilliance and make use of a never-ending source of intelligence, which is capable of defining the individual’s life for the better. Are you prepared to pull yourself out from the slumber your intelligence and mind have been placed into?
Excerpts from The awakening of intelligence
By Amit Goswami, PhD, a retired physicist from the University of Oregon, USA. For more insights and educational resources, visit Facebook, Cqaedu.
