The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

June 19Intellectual Consciousness

We welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Margaret Fuller—Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Intellectual consciousness is a fancy way of describing awareness. When our awareness is calm and deep … what happens then?

This may be Fuller's way of illustrating a mind-body connection. We have a conscious thought and it creates a feeling—perhaps inspiration. Or we see something we perceive as bad or negative for us and we feel frustrated. The only thing that changed in the world in either case was our thinking.

So, consciousness creates our reality, good or bad at some level.

When someone frustrates us, we react without much thought from the fight or flight mode, which pretty much doesn't have a deep and calm setting (and there is a physical sensation to go along with it).

Later we might think of how we could have handled the situation better. But how do you stay in that lovely deep and calm place long enough to tap the wisdom to resolve a situation in a manner that you control?

Everyone is different, so there's no easy answer. But if we start with the idea that we are all connected in some strange universal soup, then your inner self will attempt to resolve things in a way that works for everyone.

That may sound like a fairy tale come go time, ...