Intelligence, the Ultimate Enigma

Occult Spheres between High and Low IQs

Prometheus, the Bringer of Fire, brings intelligence to humankind

Intelligence—like consciousness, having a soul, or a boasting a free will—is one of those enigmas for which science doesn’t have the answers. Since around the mid-19th century, science hooked up with Marxism to produce the scientific worldview that says “everything in existence in the universe is matter in motion”.

According to this view, high intelligence must be socio-economics, education, nutrition, or, God forbid, genetics. But what if intelligence is a divine gift? What if our intelligence, consciousness, and free will exist outside of the physical universe?

I, for one, can’t see the relation between a mere 25,000 genes that make up human DNA and the gazillion-billion nerve connections in our brain that give us a consciousness and intelligence. And how come some people with very high IQs can have very ordinary brains anyway?

In this post, I present a rather occult explanation for the elusive phenomenon of high intelligence.

IQ or Intelligence?

In previous articles, I explored the enigma of intelligence: IQ Is Destiny (about intelligence as a human resource that shapes nations). In the article titled What Was the Meaning of the High-IQ Society Movement?, I discussed how unique it has been that super-high-IQ individuals were able to get organized due to modern communication means.

In Three Sigmas to the East, I wrote about how to appreciate being a member of the high-IQ cognitive elite. In the fourth and last article, An Alternative Theory of IQ and Intelligence, I discussed the possibility that having a high-IQ may be a trauma response, i.e., a coping mechanism.

At the same time, still, I cannot deny that IQ may be largely heritable, though keep in mind that the word ‘heritable’ doesn’t necessarily mean IQ is engraved onto your DNA. It does, however, imply that high-IQ individuals are much more likely to come from families with other high-IQ individuals.

IQ may not always be a good measure of general intelligence, but—in general—people with high intelligence tend to also do well on IQ tests. There is an obvious correlation. On a side note, people can, in fact, train their IQ scores. By practicing IQ tests, one may achieve a higher score. The caveat is that more intelligent people will do even better.

So, a trained intelligent person is likely to do extremely well on an IQ test.

Can’t Do Hypothetical

Have you ever met people who can’t seem to understand hypothetical situations? If I asked how you would feel right now if you had skipped your last breakfast, I suppose most of my readers might respond with answers such as: “hungry”, “irritated” or perhaps “no different”.

But people with IQ scores below around 90 cannot even imagine the hypothetical question. They will respond, “But I did have breakfast!”

Why is that? Why is it that some people seem to interpret their reality in a more literal sense? When a researcher told African bushmen there are bears on the North Pole that have white fur, they dismissed the claim as nonsense since they had never seen any bears with white fur. Bears had to be black or brown.

Sure, without evidence, it’s hard to believe anything nowadays. But the inability to imagine alternatives one has not personally observed is quite a challenge to the low-IQ mob. Their impairment may impair society as a whole since the low-IQ are members of our society and they still need to interact with basic infrastructure.

Indeed, something awful has happened to people with IQs below around 90. For example, they can’t imagine how other people might feel if you harmed them. They would answer, “I don’t know.” Such people will even justify doing harm if it served their end. This, perhaps, may be the perfect attitude for a hunter-gatherer who needs to kill big game animals, but it becomes a psychopathic tendency in more advanced civilizations.

Hunter-gatherers, by the way, don’t seem to need a high IQ to be successful at what they do. But they also can’t understand anachronisms, such as why ancient Romans didn’t use laptops to defeat their enemies. “Maybe they forgot to charge them?”

It sounds absurd to anyone else with IQs over 100, but that’s the reality of a diminished abstract thinking ability. Mind you, in a country like The Netherlands, today, 1-in-8 inhabitants have an IQ between 70-85, and they are recognized as clinically retarded. Such low-IQ people may very well be regarded hunter-gatherers, and their lack of empathy makes them dangerous.

Material versus Spiritual Intelligence

I am inclined to call low-IQ people “literalists” because they seem to literally interpret the observable reality in front of them, and they are often unable to use their imagination or thoughts to solve problems. In other words, it seems as though low-IQ people have a more mechanical rather than a spiritual brain.

But there are also upsides to having a low IQ. Low-IQ people are not as easily fooled—since they don’t believe in things they can’t see. They will, however, accept a religious dogma as something unchanging and true. In other words, they are truly children of the world they were born in. But they will have difficulty adjusting to foreign cultures.

And that brings me to a discussion of the occult before I continue trying to solve the enigma of intelligence. If low-IQ people’s minds are more the “products of their pre-existing reality”, then high-IQ people’s minds are more the “products of their unexplored imagination”.

What we are looking at, in terms of high and low IQ, is a difference between possessing high imaginative powers versus low imaginative powers, or between being able to override one’s perceptions with one’s self-generated imaginations, and not being able to do so at all.

Imagine we divided our reality into a physical-material sphere and a mental-spiritual sphere. Given this division, I posit that intelligent people’s minds draw more from the mental-spiritual sphere, giving them access to greater imaginative powers. Lower-IQ people’s minds, on the other hand, tend to be more closely rooted in the physical-material sphere, and, therefore, their consciousness is more reactive, more mechanical, more literal, akin to that of animals.

Or to put it more politely: imagine not being able to imagine things. If you can imagine that, you must be very intelligent. Sadly, there are plenty of people who produce hardly any creative output, people for whom the reality is a set of rules, laws, and moralities that they must abide by “because the elders said so”.

It is true for all of us that we must abide by rules and laws, but more intelligent people are more likely to find creative workarounds. And that’s my point. A low-IQ person can be a creative and successful soccer player but will find it very hard to dream up a new kind of sport, whereas a high-IQ person might find it even enjoyable to fantasize about non-existing types of sports competitions.

Where the Occult Plays a Role

Occultists sometimes refer to our reality as a cosmic seismic network that sends vibrations across ties and nodes, and our brains are like seismographs that register the vibrations. The stronger the vibrations coming through the cosmic network, the more ‘real’ certain phenomena appear to us.

We are effectively in competition with one another to shape our preferred reality. It just happens to be so that most people accept their reality as a given, like the hunter-gatherer bushmen who could not imagine otherwise. But some people, most likely the high-IQ types, will constantly see alternative interpretations all around them, and through their creative work, they may succeed in changing their reality, including for others.

Now, I have to admit, I don’t know if one’s imaginative ability correlates to IQ. I’m assuming it does. I’m imagining it. For what else is the difference between having a high or low IQ if not one’s cognitive ability to imagine things that others cannot see? A highly intelligent person takes an IQ test and sees (in their mind) the solution to a problem.

What does this seeing constitute? Where, exactly, in the brain was the solution found or calculated? I argue that this seeing has little to do with one’s brain structure, but rather with one’s closer relation to the mental-spiritual realm of reality, that place from which new imaginations spring.

Heidegger’s Magic

You may have guessed that science’s idea for quantum fields and fluctuations comes from this earlier occult conception of reality (the cosmic seismic network). A quantum field or a gravitational field might rightly be called magical. The idea that hidden forces are affecting us all around is magic.

Indeed, occultists appear to have often imagined later scientific ‘discoveries’ long before scientists became aware of them. Copernicus got the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun from the occult thinker Hermes Trismegistus.

Likewise, the idea of our Sun being part of a galaxy, the Milky Way, came from occult magician Giordano Bruno, who posited the idea long before the Hubble telescope definitively proved it so. (We now assume that the Milky Way is made up of stars like our Sun, but the people of ancient times wouldn’t have known about this.)

In his later philosophy, Martin Heidegger, the influential German philosopher, also alluded to this “magical occult” view of reality. Imagine that our world is made up of perceptions and imaginations, and that said perceptions are rooted in imaginations as well.

If our reality is, indeed, made up of nothing but imagined perceptions and perceived imaginations, then highly intelligent minds are simply the ones most capable of both perceiving and imagining.

So, What *Is* Intelligence?

Here is where I make the connection between higher intelligence and the occult.

Occultists believe they can override our perceived reality by manifesting their imaginations into perceptions. But it seems you need to be a high-IQ person in order to even attempt this. That is because low-IQ people are more "in tune” with the physical order, an order they cannot doubt or question but must accept as unchangeably real.

This is why most people won’t believe you if you say, today, that NATO is going to go to war with Russia, because the news hasn’t said so yet. To most people, events only become real after an authority has proclaimed it. Television and internet nowadays help promote the corresponding images.

(And I fear that AI-generated images are going to severely damage low-IQ people’s sense of what is or isn’t real.)

Smart people, having access to the spiritual world of imaginations, can work through their visions, plan out the required steps into the future, follow those steps, deal with setbacks and unexpected problems, and then finally, manifest their reality.

And so, in the end, I think high intelligence is the same as a capacity for creative thinking, meaning imaginative cognitive abilities, and that these abilities were never encoded into our DNA, but are rather inherited from a non-material sphere.

Intelligence, in the end, is something that exists outside of the physical reality. Intelligence isn’t a sequence of electrons bouncing around in our brains. Intelligence is the light we see when we close our eyes.