INTELLIGENCE RISING

Increasingly, we are becoming aware of our own inner evolutionary drives to allow our psyches to expand and merge with the larger processes of cosmic evolution. We are aware that the Darwinian imperative to survive as a species has been realized and that we have arrived at an evolutionary juncture where many humans are aspiring to move beyond the slowness of biological evolution and into the realm of expanding the mind. Darwin has provided a rough outline for the physical development of the various species but his explanations are narrowly limited and can take us only so far when we consider the larger aspects of cosmic evolution and the expansion of human intelligence. The time has come to look at findings coming from the new sciences of chaos, complexity, cognitive psychology, and metaphysics. From this group of leading-edge thinkers a trail will be blazed into new conceptual territory and lead us to higher forms of consciousness and the further evolution of the human intellect. An internal drive is emerging within the breasts of humans to transcend the trappings of an ego-dominated existence and to seek discovery of a new personal identity. This is evolution in action. We see this broader action of evolution in the universe as it marches toward increased complexity and as we experience in ourselves a compulsion to seek greater intellectual awareness. Science gives the broad dimensions, if not all of the details, of how the big bang created those early dusty swirls of sub-atomic particles that found a way to combine and create galaxies, stars, and planets. Then, in the ultra-hot cooking chambers of these early stars the vital elements needed for life were created. Gigantic supernovae blasted the newly created elements from the searing cores of stars and into space where once again they would swirl, gather, and form new stars with planets. In the universe’s unremitting drive to produce complexity, these star-created elements compounded and rose up from the mineral-rich crust of an obscure planet called Earth. Thus began the molecular and cellular combinations that led to life. Not content with simple life forms, a cosmic-wide hunger to increase the complexity of physical and biological arrangements began working its magic on planet Earth by organizing tiny cells into small living organisms and eventually into physical bodies with brains. Intelligence is the attribute that uniquely defines the human species. The phenomenon of intelligence underlies the acquisition of our knowledge about how these evolutionary events have occurred. It has shaped the arts, literature, science, and the very cultural environment within which we now almost exclusively spend our lives. As this inquiry proceeds, many of the traditional concepts of individual intelligence will be challenged by new interpretations from a variety of fields. The deeper origins of the mystifying characteristics of mind and intelligence will be investigated. Conventional wisdom states that individual human intelligence results from the activities of neurons within the brain. Now mounting evidence, much of it from quantum physics and other new fields of inquiry, is demonstrating that the human brain is not an isolated, stand-alone device but rather an integrated component in a universe that is a single, unified system in which all parts are interactively connected. This connectivity is especially applicable to the complex patterns in the human brain where electrified neural networks not only process sensory inputs but also resonate with external fields of flowing energy and intelligence in the quantum (q) world. The position taken here is that intelligence, mind, and consciousness arise not solely from the activities of neurons in an isolated chunk of brain matter. Rather, the human brain, in addition to the processing of information from our sense organs, is increasingly acquiring an ability to tune into the higher frequencies emanating from a q-world laden with intelligence. The clarity of individual intelligence, then, depends on the quality of resonance in the connection between the neural networks in the brain and the cosmic-wide intelligence fields of the q-world.