A simple seeker was meditating on The Ace of Swords, the Tarot card she had randomly selected to direct her focus on relationship issues of today. The Ace of Swords represents the full range of intellectual capacities and potentials.
“Then,” she thought to herself, simple common sense would be a form of, or prerequisite to, higher levels of intellectual development.”
“What would connect them to each other?”
“Perhaps different levels of awareness.”
“Are they related as you and I are?”
“If common sense is a prerequisite of intelligence ..”
“It both is and is not.”
“How is that possible?”
“What is common sense?”
“An instinctive or intuitive knowing.”
“Are they the same?”
“What?”
“Instinct and intuition.”
“Is one more primitive?”
“Primitive?”
“More basic, in that it developed before the other.”
“As in emotion and intellect?”
“Instinct and intuition may be more closely related to each other.”
“In what way?”
“Perhaps instinct develops into intuition.”
“As in transcending?”
“Yes.”
“Would instinct then dissolve?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“Transcending doesn’t involve exchanging one for the other.”
“Could they each operate, or function, separately?”
“What?”
“Instinct and intuition.”
“Yes.”
“Then there is no transcendence from one to the other.”
“Perhaps transcendence still plays a role in the game.”
“What role? What game?
“Perhaps as instinct develops ..”
“It never develops. It transcends into awareness.”
“Then, perhaps instinct is more emotional, and intuition is more intellectual, as in yin and yang.”
“Yes.”
“Wow!”
“Now, where does awareness fit into this picture?”
“I’m becoming more aware of the interrelationship between emotion and intellect.”
‘Yes.”
“Do they develop separately?”
“Is that possible?”
“They each need the other to be able to develop in a healthy way?”
“Yes.”
“I think I’m over my head.”
“Yes.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
All I had wanted to do was to focus on The Ace of Swords, and try to imagine how the powerful intellectual energy of that card related to relationship issues of today.
“What relationship?”
“Any and all relationships that became part of my life today.”
“Did I distract you from that goal?”
“Yes.”
“Is our relationship not a part of your day?”
“Yes, of course, but I had human relationships in mind.”
“Why would our relationship not be included?”
“I don’t know.”
“Perhaps you know more than you might think you do.”
“How is that possible?”
“Are instinct and intution forms of knowing beyond thought?”
“Yes.”
“Do they bypass thinking processes?”
“Yes.”
“Now, back to my not being included in your focus on today’s human relationship issues.”
“Our relationship is not included in the same category as human relationships.”
“Yes.”
“So, I wasn’t intentionally excluding you, for it would not be possible for me to do so?”
“Yes.”
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Simple Seekers 