' The intellect must stay in abeyance '...

The intellect is a tool, a tool for biological survival and adaptation.

The intellect is concerned with registering, classifying, naming, recording all the events that a person experiences.

We began to see that it is the very nature of the intellect not to be able to deal with the kind of formless thinking that the Overself works with.

If left to its own devices, the intellect would not be able to think its way out; it will always be in a cul-de-sac; it will always be caught in that realm.

Something has to come in and start guiding the intellect, in the sense of manipulating thoughts to produce certain concepts which further your understanding.

This is a process that keeps going on, and there will be many obstacles because there will be all kinds of interferences on the part of the ego.

But what the Overself has to do—which is the World-Mind working its understanding of itself out in you—is to guide those intellectual processes until there's a fulfillment, until there are no more questions.

When the questions stop—and PB says this has to happen naturally, not because someone tells you or the doctrine insists—when the questioning has been fulfilled, all the doubts answered, there comes a cessation of the thinking process itself, because now the experience of that reality must be grasped, and that means that the intellect must stay in abeyance.


-Anthony Damiani from Living Wisdom