Higher Levels of Intelligence - 04.22.10

Student Question: Reasoning is the lowest level of intelligence, and that’s what is taught in our educational system. I’m trying to remember what the higher levels of intelligence above reasoning are. I know there’s intuition, but what else?

Higher levels of intelligence become available when “the full buddhi opens,” argues Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Not only the lower buddhi of the ego—or rational thought—but the higher buddhi of the archetypal dimension becomes available. The higher buddhi “recognizes that there’s a much higher order that looks like randomness and chance, but has a logic that can only be seen in synchronicities and understood in a larger pattern than the ego can perceive. . . . And so when there’s no longer an egocentric perception, then those larger patterns—and more subtle patterns of reality—become clear.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 22, 2010.