Derek's Intro to New Intelligence

derek's blog on Jan's New Intelligence

This is an alternate Introduction to New Intelligence.
New Intelligence is the work of Jan Cox, a modern day Mystic.
His work is being archived at www.jancox.com .
Except where noted, This is my stuff, my interpretation, I made it up.
The real "Introduction to New Intelligence" was videotaped , and is available on YouTube,
using the links at right, starting with 1a thru 1e.

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MIND
Consciousness is not yours.
You did not make it.
It does not work for you.
You have extremely little control over your thoughts.
This bothers some people, but they don't know why.
A few people are born with the capacity to actually see that what they think is not really them -- and from time to time it really pisses them off.

The only natural physical relief you can get from your thinking is really good sex or to run to exhaustion. The unnatural escapes are:
booze ( to shut it down),
drugs ( exchanging gears in the machine) and ,
Believe it or not, intense intellectual study,
wherein you attempt to replace these thoughts with the thoughts of others.

Cynicism #1= Recently it has become possible to lose yourself in 24 hour entertainment with Ipods, podcasts, shuffles and real time mobile wi-fi access to Americas Funniest videos ( YouTube), Modern Marvels or JackAss.
Cynicism #2 = Gamers disappear from Life because they can't deal with it.
Mothers try to live their life through their children...
Seekers trying to learn from books.
Not so obvious Cynicism = You trying to be true to yourself.
Like a Hoover trying to be a really proper Hoover.
Really not so obvious - All Criticism, all judgment is a prescription for Sleep, filled instantly.
The really, really not so obvious is this: It matters not how small the criticism is.
It matters not how subtle the nuance.
And THAT becomes the rub,
Because you can't be critical
Of Being critical
In real time.

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The VIEW - or - "Look Through Here"

This is my comment on HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE. You know, the books that the tri-lateral commission keep hidden from seekers. The knowledge that men seek is everywhere. Comic books, newspapers, tv, literally everywhere. What is needed is a place to view it all from. Lets call this The View. In a football metaphor, it would be like leaving your seat at the 50 yard line to accept an invitation to the luxury suite upstairs, warm and insulated from the ordinary crowd by thick glass; removed, detached. The only requirement is that you not be critical of anything you see, either inside or outside the glass wall.
I will use the dictionary as the example of the 'game' being played. This process is NOT easy, but try to find a viewpoint from which these simple definitions seem perfectly clear, and perfectly funny.

What follows is the first item returned if you type "define:judgment" into Google.
I will state flat out, as sincerely as I can, that these words, from one viewpoint ...
are absolutely hilarious.

Google/princeton defines judgement as:
An opinion formed by judging something;
"he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"
The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event;
"they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
The determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
Opinion: the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision;
"opinions are usually written by a single judge"
The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
Sagacity: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations


You may or may not have laughed out loud, but laughter is generally the result of Seeing, with a capital 'S', or AHA with a capital 'AHA'. It is the View that men seek, not the knowledge. It is the interaction, the positioning of oneself in relation to what is to be seen that makes all the difference, for in so doing, you create the place from which you see. And THAT is something new in the world.

Now - in relating this to New Intelligence, the taped shows themselves. You will hear laughter, or blurts, from the audience at times when you can't tell why. Somebody just made a connection, a place from which to view Life itself in a new and amusing way. They gained something of value -- and if you put the question to them right then and there -- they probably could not tell you about it. It really doesn't fit in the universe of words. If it did, Jan or the thousands of mystics before him, would have just told us. The view is right there in front of you, but there is this fat tall guy standing in your way.............
And THAT, my readers, is what I have to say about hidden knowledge.
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put a Question to a Fence ( my temporary version)
Ask a Fence why it has so many sticks in the mud, and the Fence, as it searches for a response, as it jumps from post to post, synapse to synapse, it returns to ask ------- What fence?
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