Lester
Asks "What Is Intelligence"?
There
was a certain greater freedom I felt.
It was easier to concentrate
because
of it and I began to look more closely
at my mind. "What is my mind?"
I
asked. "What is intelligence?"
Suddenly
a picture flashed of an amusement
park bumper-car ride. Small round
cars each
have a flexible pole in the rear which
connects to a wire screen spread
across the ceiling. The energy to
power all the cars comes from this
single
source, the ceiling, and is transmitted
by means of the pole at the rear
of each
car. The amount of energy is regulated
by individual drivers using a
foot pedal.
This
makes the ride more interesting. The
steering mechanism is constructed
to be
oversensitive. Therefore, it requires
the utmost delicacy of handling to
maintain
control of the car because the slightest
movement of the wheel sends
it careening
and the cars are constantly bumping
into each other, out of control.
And it seems that the more a driver
tries to control his car, the more
erratic
becomes the action. This was a picture
of mankind today. We all use the
same single
intelligence and power taken from
above. But most of us are out of
control,
using the energy to bump into each
other.
However,
I began to see that I could regulate
the amount of power and intelligence
for my own use and that I could have
control of it. I liked that
so I began
to dig at it.
I
began to examine thinking, and its
relationship to what was happening.
And I saw
that whatever was happening had a
thought behind it at some time prior.
And that the reason I had never before
related the two was because of the
element of
time between the thought and the happening.
But
I did discover that with everything
that was happening to me I'd had a
thought
of it before it happened; and that,
if I could grab hold of this
concept
and find a way to use it, I could
consciously pre-determine
everything that
would happen to me!
Above
all, I saw that I was responsible
for everything that had happened
to me,
formerly thinking that the world was
abusing me! And I saw that my
tremendous
effort to make money and then losing
it was due only to my thinking;
that I
had been always seeking happiness,
and thought that making money would
do it.
So whenever the business started to
make money, and the money did not
bring
me the happiness I wanted, I began
to lose interest and the thing
collapsed.
I had always blamed it on other people
and circumstances, not realizing
that it was simply my subconscious
knowledge that this is not
happiness
which caused me to lose interest and
that, in turn, caused the business
to collapse.
This
was a tremendous piece of freedom,
to think that I am not a victim of
this world,
that it lies within my power to arrange
the world the way I want it
to be;
that rather than be an effect of it,
I can now be in control of it and
arrange
it the way I would like it to be.
That was a tremendous realization,
a tremendous
feeling of freedom.
Discovering
that my happiness equated to my loving,
and that my thinking was the
cause of things happening to me in
my life gave me more and more freedom;
freedom
from the subconscious compulsions
that I had to work, I
had to make money,
I had to have girlfriends.
Freedom in the feeling that I was
now able to determine
my destiny, I was now able to control
my world, lightened my internal
burden
so strongly that I felt there was
no need for me to have to
do anything.
Plus,
this happiness was so great. It was
a new experience for me. I was
experiencing
a joy that I never knew existed, never
dreamed could be. So I decided,
"This is so great, I'm not going
to stop until I carry it all the
way."
I had no idea how far it could go.
I had no idea how joyous a person
could
be. But I was determined to find out.
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