Is Your Third Eye Open?

Everything we do and achieve in our life begins on the canvas of our mind. But while we use our 'mental resource' to create today and tomorrow, it would be almost useless without our intellect.

While the mind is what we use to generate thoughts in the form of images, ideas, concepts and goals etc., our intellect is necessary to discern the quality of those thoughts and decide which one to act upon. If the mind was a 'screen' upon which many possibilities are created, then the intellect would be an 'eye' that looks at the screen with the ability to evaluate the appropriateness of these possibilities and the consequences of acting upon each one. The intellect is often referred to as our 'third eye'.

It is the intellect that distinguishes human beings from the other animal kingdoms in terms of intelligence. Our intellectual capacity, which is nothing to do with academic achievement, gives us the ability to discern quality, reflect on possible choices, anticipate consequence and make decisions. As two legged, upright, 'artist philosophers', we human beings have the capacity to create and refine complex theories, design and build complex structures, generate and connect complex concepts and discuss and fine tune complex ideas. But perhaps our greatest intellectual skill is to make the complex simple, to bring expansion back to essence. None of which is something the birds and bees, the cows or the trees can be spotted doing too often!

The intellect is a vital resource within our consciousness that has been neglected, and in many instances almost ignored. If it is not used it becomes weak, atrophies and can eventually shut down.