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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rahere" data-source="post: 5246" data-attributes="member: 2904">It was clear they didn't have the faintest, so I joined the Birkbeck group, where I got some bearings on where things were, and started to realise that Elaine Aron's High Sensitivity thesis didn't begin to touch it. I'd been trained by my grandmother in Pelmanism, which was used by SOE (mum was one of them) to boost perception, except I took it further, into a form of ESP. That was then taken further by the CofE, faced with ostensible seer gifts, so they tested me. Knowing my read was good, I passed the impossible question upwards, and dived for cover, in meditation, getting as far down as possible. Something spoke through me, and stopped, so I started to unfold, checking physiological normality, all fine, impossible question answered precisely. And then the weird started, building slowly until I ended up handling the ultimate faith question of all. So, with the Prince of Peace's guidance, is it any wonder we won the Peace Prize? That study took me to the heart of the Eucharist, and of the Devotio Moderna, in the form of an academic case according to the norms of the day, the Quadrivium. Two of the four facets were aptly described by Yale's Professor of the History of Music, Craig Wright - and then he moved to head their new Genius School, producing The Hidden Habits of Genius. I was therefore able to present a case built on his own work, extending it massively, and showing competence it more than one field.I'll therefore answer your question on "what is intelligence?" with the answers in his book. It's the ability to see what nobody else can, handling data sets and concepts others can't. My 70% of a normal brain builds data sets far larger than Joe Normal can cope with, the hangup with communications: the guy can barely cope with the Executive Summary, and certainly not with the argumentation behind it. Building it comes from many sources, so assembling it is obsessive to someone with the attention span of a flea finds it obsessive. And there's always the threat of overflow: thank heavens we have Pavlov's Transmarginal Inhibition ready to impose an IAS fugue! That's a facet of meltdown: most of it's classic trauma, though.From a more spiritual angle, I needed it, and EQ, to handle the numinous, my main guide. This is Newton and Nash, wandering the night for inspiration and confidence in sensing the ineffable perfect answer, the key to the pattern.How do you detect it? Arthur C Clark's definition of the miraculous being simply advanced technology applies. The Intelligent perform miracles. When Joe Normal wanders away shaking his head, the subject's applying intelligence. Yes, an IQ of 140's exceptionally intelligent, but it's not genius, per Craig's thinking. We must be there first. And this is where neurodivergence comes in. We're never satisfied with mediocrity. We're different, and if that difference is in the search for excellence, then we're going to meet another of Craig's tests, we make a difference to the world. Billy Billingham, the SAS's RSM, puts it this way, they search for Tier One individuals, world-changers. I've completed Gandhi's unfinished business, by being placed in exactly the right place at the right time, but also by being the right person - mum followed her SOE service with two years working as PA to the Indian High Commissioner, Krishna Mennon, during the Independence Talks. The first plus was simply being of sufficient service for my interlocutor to want to know more, and persisting despite my reticence, until he discovered to his joy we was facing a diplomatic unicorn he'd been in hunt of for weeks. That I had the background was a real plus, but the real clincher was when they returned after evening prayers to find me at prayer too: they asked what I was praying, and I opened to show them my prayer was that their prayers be answered. I'd established common ground.This brings me to EQ. During my search for an understanding of trauma (the classic studies being neurotypicals), I realised I'd accidentally healed the teacher-trauma, which was in the form of 40 minutes in unsupported crucifix pose on the wallbars. Top gymnasts hold it for ten seconds: I was approaching diaphragm failure. When I found myself aligned with the numinous, this of course came to mind, and in meditating on it, healed the trauma! It was, however, a single instance in that it was an adult causing the abuse. Behind it lay the horrors of big brothers and my own age group, which started to play up when I finally returned to the gym in old age. I started discussing it on linked-in, and that attracted the attention of Bruce Duncan Perry, particularly when I focused in on perception of the intangible, missing from the other forms of perception. The rationality of pure subjectivity threw the "scientific" test out immediately, and so I was able to hook Maslow's transpersonal, at the peak of his pyramid of aspiration, in as the foundation for transception: the main field runs from the empathic through Third Sector medicine into the numinous, but there are of course innumerable other instances, such as Wendy d'Andrea's curious observation of bilateral crossover interoception in couples where one carries childhood trauma - both can read the other's interoception! In my case, after the IQ observations, a wiccan aura-perceptive was categorical my aura's that of a Reiki master, so after due research showed it was possible (my CV aligns with Usui's circle's), I took it to a healing centre's open day to test, successfully. The core's acupuncture meridian power channels, the mastery comes from diplomatic empathy and numinous power-tapping.This starts to add a qualitative vector to the debate. It's evident nonsense to talk of quantitative, although Reiki does talk of skill level. I've clearly opened the door to the weird and wonderful, without being too enthusiastic about anti-gravity gurus and the Randi crowd. That's the thing about world-changing, there's no reset button, no repeats, and in my case, I don't control it, mostly. I'm not a performing bear.</blockquote>

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