Jan S:  Bravo! I fully agree.

The problem is that the society has forgotten how to access the gift.

Good intuition requires a high degree of integration of brain function, enabling the simultaneous non-analytic (holistic) consideration of many different data. It is associated with a high level of broadband EEG coherence and the experience of, and access to, an all-unifying, Transcendent field of consciousness.

Transcendental Meditation, that I practice, has a well documented ability to develop this by enabling, transcendence, a regular experience of this field.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who revived this ancient Vedic technique actually regretted that he called it meditation, because it differs fundamentally from commonly practiced eastern and western meditations. I wanted to mention this, because there is a widespread misconception that all meditations are varieties of essentially the same thing.

From being vague, hazy hunches popping up uncontrollably, my intuitions have evolved to being distinct, though abstract, sources of information that help me to see the underlying connection between a multitude of apparently unrelated data. It has helped me a lot in diagnostics as well as in my scientific research.

It seems to me that Steve has achieved a well developed intuition, enabling profound and valuable insights in the field of economics.

J

Me:  Thank you Jan. Yes integration is the very process of Wisdom, ancient Wisdom itself. The world suffers from a lack thereof. This is why I’ve decided to concentrate on my book The Cosmic Code which is a mental action expression of the Wisdom process which if practiced personally and applied systemically leads to/enables one to tap into the pinnacle of Wisdom which is a personal sense/systemic condition of graciousness/graceful flow. Hopefully it can add to and integrate with other disciplines like Transcendental Meditation to help us create an Ethic of Wisdom and graciousness within ourselves and applied to our systems that will help us survive our “interesting times”.

JR:  Steve, I believe the first part of your quote is correct and the second part totally wrong.

In Economics, the totally baseless inspired lies put out by orthodoxy are accepted and there is no rational criticism of them. Intuition (inspired or not) on its own leads to uncontrolled fantasy.  Rationalism on its own produces pedestrian lack of new ideas and gets nowhere.

This is where Science has it right.  Intuition, following study of a problem, suggests answers.  Critical destructive appraisal, i.e. trying to prove each one wrong by testing against known facts, sorts out the best answer(s).  But, hoiwever well supoported they appear, they remain open to modification in the light of new discoveries.  It is the lack of the second process of critical evaluation process, including deliberate suppression of it, that is causing chaos in our economies.

Appealing to intuition alone is usually a result of being afraid to subject shaky ideas to true evaluation.  This applies to both sides of present monetary controversy.

Me:  I’m assuming you mean the original quote attributed to Einstein.

You’re correct that neither rationalism nor intuition ALONE is likely to have all of the answers, but I don’t think either Jan or myself advocate that. What I advocate is the integration of science and spirituality-intuition with certain pre-suppositions that I call the laws of integration. These are my oft posted insistence that an actual integration consists of only truth(s), only workabilities and only applicabilities AND SO the process of the weeding out of untruth(s), unworkabilities and inapplicabilities.

These are characteristics of both good science and good spirituality. Guys like Gautama Buddha, Lao Tse, Christ etc. were probably some of the most rigorously honest and mentally scientific individuals the planet has seen. Same for Copernicus, Maxwell etc.

Unfortunately nowadays there is a lot of rigid and closed minded science and spirituality which become paradigms (generally held beliefs) that stand in the way of actual integrations.

JS:  Steve, I completely agree.

The Vedic Science was built on the precise cognition of the Cosmic Code, which required the development of fully integrated and highly refined consciousness, the highest level of enlightenment, called Brahmi Chetana, totality consciousness.

Recent research has confirmed that Enlightenment is not some kind of subjective spiritual self suggestion as commonly believed by contemporary science.

Brain research has found that it is associated with a  high level coherence /integration of brain functioning, which is unperturbed by sensory impressions, while in the unenlightened, the low extent of coherence that may appear when eyes are closed, disappears more or less completely when eyes are opened. Also it has been found that the brain is idle, until some action or response is needed, while in the unenlightened, the brain is more or less excited all the time.

So in Enlightenment, the brain can be used as a scientific, precise instrument for exploring the cosmic code, the observations being culture-invariant, always the same, whenever and wherever made.

They are the Eternal, Universal Truth. The Cosmic Code. Compiled most completely in the Veda.

Me:  Jan,

Yes I have no doubt that Vedic science and the Cosmic code are basically in agreement about the nature of consciousness itself. In fact I contemplated the various aspects/qualities of several extraordinary experiences I have had and they align with buddhist and vedic descriptions of high states of knowingness. The one thing I hope the Cosmic Code can contribute to is helping to develop mental and temporal action WHILE also attaining/maintaining those high states. The East has the tradition of contemplation. The West’s tradition is action. Integrating them individually and systemically/temporally would be akin to the buddhist tradition of the Bodhisattva. Again, the Cosmic Code is a formula that if practiced tends to result in non-formulaic, non-reactionary and flowing experiences. The modern world is god awfully beset by reaction, obsessive contention without resolution and apparently ignorance of ways to get past such. I say let us have Wisdom and its pinnacle experience, namely the flowing state of Grace, by applying the integrative ethic of the Cosmic Code to ourselves and our systems.

Me:  The signature of good science is the dualistic objectivity of the scientific method integrated with an open mindedness toward new/additional data/factors.

The signature of scientific break through is the dualistic objectivity of the scientific method integrated with an aspect of consciousness. For example, the impetus for Einstein’s theory of space-time was his visualization-imagining (imagination being an aspect of consciousness) of a man jumping out of a window of a building and sliding down space-time.

These definitions fit seamlessly within the formula of the Cosmic Code.