Title:"THE GROWING OF THE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE"
by Renato L. Porchetta
At the time when the nomad man was worshiping the moon he also sought protection from the
arcane thundering sky.
And while being forced to migrate in search of seasonal food the primitives, for not knowing how
to grow regularly apple trees, fed on others of their own kind.
That was the time when two stones were beaten one against the other evoking the deity.
Time passed and the idolatry of the marble statues of the Greek and Roman gods was replaced
by a spiritual Direction attempting to justify the inner-self with more conscious information.
Then the word "intelligentsia" was mentioned for the first time.
The growth of the human intelligence was slow but at least stopped the torturing of religious
believers in Spain and unlocked the shackles chaining human slaves.
Reading and writing were needed, and the art went from marking tablets of dried mud to paper
and ink. The Gutenberg press later had its way.
Meanwhile branching out from what was originated at the core of the Mediterranean culture
freewill was reinforced in central Europe and the worshiping of the moon was left to
astronomers and poets.
The moon itself scared no more. Then the lightning rapidly passing through the thunderstorm was
caught with a flying kite and made to travel through the wire to a metal key and then to the
ground.
Theatrical representations become comparable but some religious quarrels carried the spark of
inflammatory debates from one place to the other in the known world harvesting corpses rather
than sanctity.
The human intellect continued the search and tracing some historical facts went from
worshiping the moon to the stone statues and from the statues to the attempt to empower the
Self. It seems that what propels this movement is: "religious impulse."
Then the sky was no longer thought -arcane- but was joined in its heights. And came the time
when man went on the moon and walked those very paths that were one time thought magic.
The human "intelligentsia" conquered the silvery goddess which was worshiped in the past.
And perhaps received some sacrificial lives here and then.
Also came the time when it was discovered that it is easier to talk on the phone than exert the
fatigue of carrying messages on horse back riding for days. And today messages can directly
reach one's jeans' s pocket in electronic version trying to replace the responsibility of mail delivery
and which ink and paper were doing during the Gutenberg time.
The "search" of the human intelligence went on together with freewill discovering that this mental
faculty could be a messenger or, perhaps a physiological agent responsible to break the occult
powers of superstition and mysteries.
NASA thinks of the moon differently nowadays than what an Mayan witchcraft did but a few
centuries ago. Man can play with dolphins but still some religious differences remain unsettled.
And the West also discovered the whisper of Zen saying that there are in existence spiritual
dimensions to be conquered and with committed love dreams come true.
God for many is a beautiful dream, will Zen be right?
If one thinks that the power of human intelligence itself can replace dreams-catchers then the
amplification of the intelligence will succeed.
Renato L. Porchetta
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