Who Say We Must have Brains?

[Guest guest]

Dear Zenbob,

 

Sorry for the delay in seeing your comments on my poem. I'm behind. I

think it might be my lack of brains. Who knows.

 

You write:

Thinking should never be chastized as a

negative. Being a creature of only "logic" and cold reason, well that is a

failure to fully use all of the beauty and ability of the brain. One must

feel life and experience emotion to appreciate being human. One also,

should

experience logic and reason, if only to fulfill the promise of Divine

Intelligence.

 

I'm well aware of the biology of humans. I've been in the medical field all

of my adult life. I'm not saying that we don't have brains because we do.

I was trying to say that we might use our hearts to think with rather than

our brains. Yes, it all goes through that gray matter, but to feel, one

must come from the heart. To really live, one must come from the heart.

Take your mind to your heart and ask questions. You will get answers that

will bypass any logic you've ever known. That's what I'm saying and that is

Divine Intelligence.

 

You write: And I firmly believe that other creatures with significant

brain to body mass ratios also feel deep emotion, have vital memories and

yearn to feel joy and beauty.

 

And who are we to say that don't? I had a dog once who experienced all of

these things. He was quite a dog.

 

I'm not knocking the human body with it's grand design and structures. That

was not the meaning I was trying to get across.

 

Wim writes: Thank you Susie,

 

This seems to describe the life I lived out of my travel van for the last

five months. Did we meet perchance?

 

Dear Wim,

 

Yes, we met on the funway of light and love.

 

Also: >>>...What else do you need?... <<<

 

A bumper sticker saying:

"Have love, will travel"

or another one:

"I have a heart, just add love."

 

A friend had a big yellow Suburban that he took on many cross country trips

and the bumper sticker read: My Brain Hurts.

 

Love,

susie

[Guest guest]

Delighted with your late but stately reply.

I don't believe either of us are out of sync on this topic...just

carefully riding different peaks and troughs of the wave of

reasoning.

It is like the ring made for a King who wanted something that could

cheer him when depressed and sober him when giddy--inscribed with the

phrase: "this too, shall pass."

I tend to counsel those who ride the crests of exhuberant emotion to

think a bit, and when encountering those gray-suit types bound to the

cloisters of cold reason, I admonish: "hey, loosen up--live a

little...do something crazy and spontaneous!"

I gleen that you must be of the same general outlook. Love (and

Divine Love) are not experienced through the logic circuits, of

course, but through the emotional ones. Still, it is the raw power

of emotions unleashed without reason that so much damage gets done to

the psyche and to the world. Zealots and fanatics all have

experienced their profound moments of "inspiration" via the conduit

of emotion...and often religious intoxication (to paraphrase

Marx/Lenin) and that always seems the sort of thing to gently ween

the exuberant away from with a healthy dose of reason and sound

practical caution. Particularly in the context of surrendering our

hearts or minds to other mortal humans. In that context, I am always

going to insist on great caution, a bit of cool reason and even a bit

of suspecion and sleuthing to look behind the surface of the "Divine

Human" show that is usually produced to either lure converts,

followers or to just simply take in profit. I am not saying that

religious teachers cannot make money, nor that everything should be

absolutely "non-profit" but Paramahansa Yogananda's SRF was founded

as a non-profit and always operated in a strict and above board

manner. Most authentic Yogi societies have always practised this

safe and relatively austere approach. It eliminates the suspecion

and nagging doubts. When others set themselves (or have managers

that set them up) as "Divine LoveGod's Voice" the "Fully Realized

Master" etc., etc., and actually take as much in donation as

possible, and use that money to operate "businesses" or properties

that do not functionally serve the followers, then I get a beep on my

radar. I simply wish to remind folks that all humans have feet of

clay and heads filled with both divine and devilish thoughts. We

surrender to others at the peril of losing our souls. Surrender

then, only to the Divine. Not in the guise or form of a person, but

in the full glory of that which is the Infinite.

Love,

Blessings,

Zenbob