When we speak of scientific art or artistic science, we are also speaking of a state of being where the use of the intellect and the intuition are kept in fine balance.
Like scientific art or artistic science, we might call it intellectual intuition or intuitive intellect, or more simply common sense. It is in this form of common sense where true or whole intelligence operates. The intellect cannot be wholly intelligent without the intuition, and the intuition cannot be wholly intelligent without the intellect.
This is to do with understanding the true dynamic that is meant to be put in operation between the intellect and the intuition.
Relatively speaking, we can think of the intellect as being artificial, and the intuition as being natural. Both are actually natural, as already stated in ECONOMICS. The reason why such a statement may jolt present day, is that the word “artificial” has come to be associated with negative outcomes, whereas its original meaning was positively created to mean any kind of “art” or “crafting”. It is only because we are presently overextending ourselves individually and en masse that the word “artificial” now gets a bad press, along with “ego”. Such negative situations are all self-created, and yet using the same tools and terminology we can totally flip such negative situations into positive situations. It’s simply a matter of timing and being in “the live game”.
So to help put things into perspective, we have an intellect to help us craft things, to take earth materials and craft them in such a way that we somehow create more from that which already exists. In these pages, this is what I mean by “artificial”, and when done properly actually enhances our whole experience of nature. When we are born on this planet, it’s like experiencing a kindergarten, with a whole new set of materials and ideas to work with to bring enjoyment into our lives. As humans, we are, among other things, artificers, just like Doc Brown.
The enhancement principle set out above is a very important point, and does relate back to the turbocharger analogy I gave in THE LIVE GAME. We can come back to this.
When we use our intellect as artificers then, we create all-new waves of experience, which also are reflected in business cycles and the financial markets. These waveforms however ride upon very dependable natural waveforms which have much broader sweeps. Still, these natural waveforms do also ebb and flow, and so we need to make sure we keep in time and tune with them. It is then our intuitions which help us detect these broader sweeps. Our intuition is essentially a channel through which our natural body speaks to us, and its form of communication is through our “feelings”. A person who is in touch with their feelings then means that they are in touch with the condition and constitution of their own body.
To explain further, our “feelings” are essentially communications from the cells of our body, and the atoms and molecules which comprise them, to say how well or otherwise we are doing in keeping in time and tune with broader nature. They are you might say “closer” to nature or pure natural spirit, and so able to detect subtle changes well ahead of anything our human intellect can in any given moment. You might say even that our intuition is our cellular or atomic intellect which is working at quantum levels, guiding as accurately as it can given its relatively “far away” position.
Both intellect and intuition should then be seen as valuable “inputs” in all of our human decision making processes, starting with even the smallest tasks. When practiced, like anything, it then becomes second nature, without then having to really think about, as the “process” goes into the subconscious on automatic. With our thoughts and feelings, our intellect and intuition, being the “inputs”, we “output” among other things our emotions.
These emotions then feed back into fuelling our conscious awareness of thoughts and feelings. In this sense, our emotion generation can be thought of as a natural counterpart of money generation. Our emotions then also guide us as to whether we are on the right paths; whether, at least, we are succeeding in “balancing our books” of health and well-being. If you ever wondered the difference between feelings and emotions, this is one way you can tell them apart.
At present, most of the problems we have caused ourselves is to do with what effectively has become a split mind of humankind, where the intellect generally seeks to overpower the intuition (which then goes “underground”), forgetting that they should actually be working together in harmony like Doc Brown and Marty McFly. This has nothing to do with our physical gender, it comes down to individually how we think and which parts of our own mind we choose to listen to when forming opinions and making decisions. Einstein was a brilliant mind because he understood this balance. Many of his contemporaries however chose a different path, and still do.
The true meaning then of the proverb that “time and tide wait for no man” is to do with making sure that we keep our intellectual crafting in time and tune with our intuition, for our intuition, like an atomic clock, tells us the truest “universal” time. Without taking proper notice of the intuition, our intellect alone can lead us into very dangerous lands indeed, where humankind is consumed back into its greater nature to maybe live another day, rather than evolving positively through natural selection by showing how “classic” humankind can be when using all of its talents and technologies in the most optimum fashion.