{"id":19868,"date":"2021-02-24T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19868"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:31:44","slug":"seven-pathways-to-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19868","title":{"rendered":"Seven Pathways to Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PWeb79W8EqQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Wisdom is clearly more than mere intelligence,\nknowledge of facts, or information. Wisdom is more synthesis than analysis,\nmore paradoxical than linear, more a dance than a march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to grow in wisdom, we need to move\nbeyond cerebral, rational knowing. As wisdom teacher Cynthia Bourgeault puts\nit: \u201cWisdom is not knowing more, but knowing with more of you, knowing deeper.\u201d\n[1] I\u2019ve created a list of seven \u201cways of knowing\u201d that together can move us\ntoward greater wisdom. Here are the first four:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Intellect:<\/strong>&nbsp;The\nlens that we most associate with knowing is <em>intellectual<\/em>\nknowing. It\u2019s the result of formal education and it has to do with science,\nreason, logic, and what we call intelligence. Most of us are trained to think\nthat it is the only way of knowing or the superior way of knowing. Yet that\nisn\u2019t necessarily true. Seeing intellectual intelligence as the best or only\nway of knowing is actually a great limitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Will:<\/strong>&nbsp;The second way of knowing is <em>volitional<\/em> knowing. It comes\nfrom making choices, commitments, and decisions, then sticking with them, and\nexperiencing them at different stages. Anyone who has made and then kept vows\nknows what I\u2019m talking about. It is a knowing that comes from making choices\nand the very process of struggling with the choices. This knowing is a kind of\ncumulative knowing that emerges over time. The Franciscan scholar John Duns\nScotus (1266\u20131308) felt that volitional knowing, or will, was higher and closer\nto love than intellectual knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emotion<\/strong>: Great emotions are especially powerful teachers. Love, ecstasy,\nhatred, jealousy, fear, despair, anguish: each have their lessons. Even anger\nand rage are great teachers, if we listen to them. They have so much power to\nreveal our deepest self to ourselves and to others, yet we tend to consider\nthem negatively. I would guess that people die and live much more for emotional\nknowing than they ever will for intellectual, rational knowing. To taste these\nemotions is to live in a new reality afterward, with a new ability to connect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senses:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bodily or sensory knowing comes\nthrough the senses, by touching, moving, smelling, seeing, hearing, breathing,\ntasting\u2014and especially at a deep or unconscious level. Becoming aware of our\nsenses in a centered way allows us to awaken, to listen, to connect. It allows\nus to know reality more deeply, on our body\u2019s terms instead of our brain\u2019s\nterms. It is no surprise that Jesus touched most of the people he healed.\nSomething very different is communicated and known through physical touch, in\ncontrast with what is communicated through mere words.\n\nTomorrow I will continue to describe three additional ways of knowing\nthat can deepen our ability to know and love the world more fully as Jesus did\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisdom is clearly more than mere intelligence, knowledge of facts, or information. Wisdom is more synthesis than analysis, more paradoxical than linear, more a dance than a march. In order to grow in wisdom, we need to move beyond cerebral, rational knowing. 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