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What is Intelligence? 94
Chapter Eight –
Intelligence, the Media, Kundalini and Sexuality
At this point, we feel we have no choice but to introduce what we regard
as the missing piece in virtually all modern mainstream scientific,
psychological, secular and religious thought.
For those who have led such a strictured and manipulated life to have not
explored this area of thought, we are briefly going to give a theory which
should in a general, and in some cases specific way, address most of the
human problems that have been bothering them for so long, as so long
left unanswered by our modern educational system and “experts” and
professors of academia, or even of religion, who have decided they know
better than the rest of us about the true significance and origin of life.
In the mid 19 th Century Darwin explained how we evolved via the
evolutionary process of natural selection to become human animals, from
some common ancestor which must originally have been the progenitor
of all the existing animal life forms we see on our planet today.
How that first presumably single-celled creature itself however came to
exist, is a somewhat separate issue, and not one we will trouble over at
this point in the discussion.
Why any religious group should have any problem with the generality of
Darwin’s theory is a mystery to the present author, because there doesn’t
seem to be any reason to fear the fact that human beings may be only
unique in the degree to which they exhibit intelligence, consciousness
and so on.
For surely, anyone who has seen the death throes even of an insect cannot
believe it possesses no feeling, as it squirms in agony, much as we would
if we were skewered by an enormous needle, or suddenly enveloped in a
huge cloud of poison gas.
Nevertheless, we are not trying to organise any animal rights campaign
here. We should not of course be cruel to any creature unnecessarily, but
we have to draw the line somewhere in that to take this principle too far
threatens our own survival.
For example, John the Baptist is said to have lived in the desert on locusts
and honey.