The Myth of Intelligence: Most of what is applauded as intelligent in modern societies is merely the linking together of socially approved and *audience flattering* cliches.

The Myth of Intelligence: “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman gets … killed.”

Most of what is applauded as intelligence in modern societies is merely the clever linking together of strings of socially acceptable cliches.

Most of what is applauded as great intelligence in modern societies is merely the linking together of socially approved and *audience flattering* cliches.

You don’t think so? Analyze the speech of any greatly admired civic leader or political figure.

Meanwhile, the truth and real intelligence lie uninspected and overlooked… requiring as they do, a certain letting go of the comfortable blanket of ego into an arena of the fearfully unexpected.

An arena fertile with the life energizing aspects of real self and of rebirth into authenticity..

But there are actually none among us who travel outside of the comfort zone of the familiar into the wisdom of insecurity, without being prodded by pain and discomfort … sometimes the discomfort of the familiar having become soured and sapping of life….

Bottom line:

People think folks are intelligent who enable people in their desire to wither away in the cesspool of ego pleasuring.

Actual life renewing truth is overlooked and relegated to the pool of the Unapproved and Hidden, both in cultures and in ourselves.

And that’s why God invented pain.

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#pain #God #intelligence #growth #truth #ego #rebirth


For relevant works by Michael Adzema, see 


Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths,” 

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-War-Class-Generations-Obvious/dp/1492864021/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Planetmates: The Great Reveal, 

http://www.amazon.com/Planetmates-Great-Reveal-Return-Grace/dp/1496083326/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Falls from Grace: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness, 

http://www.amazon.com/Falls-Grace-Devolution-Revolution-Consciousness/dp/1499297998/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

and the upcoming, 

Wounded Deer and Centaurs: The Necessary Hero and the Prenatal Matrix of Human Events

http://www.tsu.co/sillymickel/90305834  Wounded Deer cover and “Return to the Centaur”

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http://www.tsu.co/sillymickel/90100809  “We Are the Centaurs, My Friends”

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“Four Blueprints of ‘Human Nature’: The earliest roots of greed, war, pollution, sexual assault, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anal compulsiveness … and genocides and the Holocaust”

http://sillymickel.blogspot.mx/2015/10/four-blueprints-of-human-nature.html

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“the people who are really making the changes in male-female relationships … becoming fuller human beings … are struggling to do so”: Wounded Deer and Centaurs, on relationships

http://sillymickel.blogspot.mx/2015/09/the-people-who-are-really-making.html

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“a sample from my latest book: Chapter 11: Prenatal Irritation-Revulsion … ‘Creeped Out’ in the Womb”

http://sillymickel.blogspot.mx/2015/10/a-sample-from-my-latest-book-chapter-11.html

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For any books by Michael Adzema, see Michael Adzema at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Adzema/e/B00J7F0URC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1445368199&sr=1-1