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Oneness intelligence

by the editors

With this issue Equals One proposes a new conception of intelligence and a new evaluation.

For too long true intelligence has been depreciated and belittled on this planet, pushed on to the sidelines by the merely knowledgeable.

First we would suggest a short list of truly intelligent people: Lao Tse, Kung Tse, Chuang Tse, Mong Tse, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, the Buddha, Mahavira, Panini, Patanjali, Shankara, Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, in all of whom intelligence appears as a capacity to see that which is hidden from the ordinary surface awareness. From this point of view our measure of intelligence, our I.Q. scale, must extend from the amoeba who can find a piece of food hidden behind an obstacle, to the archangel who finds God hidden behind the universe; from the squirrel who buries his nuts, to the pharaoh who stocks his grain for the seven lean years; on the level of our daily life, from the intelligence of the taxi driver who finds his way in a big city to that of the astronaut who finds it in a 3-dimensional star world; from the peasant who grows the biggest potatoes, to the scientist who discovers a new virus; from the paleolithic hunter who learns to count beyond three, to Cantor who tries in vain to find an aleph 3 infinity.

The question is asked: can man go beyond his merely animal intelligence? The truly intelligent people on our list proved that he can. Each of these went far beyond the squirrel counting his nuts or the banker counting his securities, and gained something much more significant. In a word, they saw the truth, the kind of truth which makes you free. The found the one, the unique reality.