The solution to problems lies at a higher level of consciousness.

Solving problems involves going beyond pure intellect.

Wisdom is not the same as intellect. Wisdom is the intelligence of the heart. Intellect is the intelligence of the mind.

The more you love, the wiser or more aware you are of reality. The more fear you have (the opposite of love), the less aware you are and the more you are fooled by your own ego (or the ego of others).

The Heart is governed by love, that is, by the understanding that you and I are not two (just as one wave is not different from another wave, but are the same ocean). For the intellect we are different waves, period (it does not see the underlying unity), but for love we are expressions of the same essence.

The difference between wisdom and intellect

Quantum physics begins to approach the paradigm of wisdom when it demonstrates that "the observer influences the observed". What science has not yet demonstrated is that the observed is actually the observer itself. Do not try to understand intellectually what I have just said, for the dual nature of the intellect prevents you from doing so.

The intellect is very good at dissecting reality, just as it can dissect an elephant into its anatomical parts (trunk, ear, tail...) but it is not good at understanding the whole (elephant) of reality. For that you need to raise the level of consciousness and use wisdom.

Intellect is governed by ego (which is basically a thought that calls itself "I"). Wisdom is governed by love and intuition, which is a direct (and non-dual) understanding of reality without the intervention of the physical senses. Wisdom knows and the intellect knows (or thinks it knows). Intellect belongs to the lower nature of the human being, and wisdom belongs to his higher nature.

Just as we can observe different degrees in the intellectual capacity of people, there are different degrees in their level of consciousness. And they do not necessarily go hand in hand. One can have a great intellectual capacity (memory, creativity, logic...) but a low degree of consciousness (or wisdom). The degree of consciousness can be measured by the degree of light and peace that a person gives off. The wiser or more conscious, the less you judge, the more you understand. The wiser you are, the more you see the perfection of everything and the more you awaken (by your mere presence) the perfection in others.

The more aware you become of who you really are (beyond what your senses or your beliefs tell you), the wiser you are. It is often the case that the more intellect you have (often represented by the number of academic degrees you have) the more you get lost in the trees of ego and the less you see the forest. A poet is often closer to the Truth than a Nobel Prize winner in physics. This is not always the case, but my point is that today there is too much intellect in the service of the ego and too little intellect in the service of what is right or wise.

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How to measure our degree of wisdom

Dr. David R. Hawkins was a renowned psychiatrist who developed a map of human consciousness. Consciousness can be measured (by a muscle test) between 0 and 1,000 degrees. A person who does not want to live (and wants to commit suicide) calibrates very low, around 10 or 0 degrees. A person who lives in continuous ecstasy and exudes peace, joy and bliss, calibrates at 1,000 degrees and can be considered the wisest.

When a human being calibrates below 200, that human being lives in the ego paradigm (whose main emotion is fear and craving for control or power). When a human being vibrates above 200, they begin to be awakened to their higher nature (whose primary emotion is love, peace and understanding). A fully "awakened" person, like any great Avatar, would calibrate at 1,000 (which represents ultimate wisdom, love and truth).

Someone humble who transmits peace has tremendous power and has far more strength than 1,000,000 unawakened men. Remember for example the power that Gandhi demonstrated. Not even all the tanks and soldiers of the British Empire could defeat his peace. But not all awakened men end well.

Most, in an unaware world, end up marginalized or killed. A wise man is a threat to the ego of many because he questions the shaky foundation on which their lives are built. And the ego, which prefers to be right rather than to recognize the Truth, chooses to want to change others (or to push them away) from the system.

The turning point in the evolution of each individual.

Two hundred is a very important level, for it is from that level of consciousness that one has the courage to see one's own psychological shadow and go beyond one's ego. From 200 one begins to look inside and assume one's responsibility. From 200 one stops complaining (or feeling victimized and living from fear). From 200, one stops following the herd unconsciously because one has realized that this is a way of ceding one's responsibility.

In this world most people calibrate (according to Dr. Hawkins) an average of 207. But a large percentage of the population calibrates below 200, and so they are easily driven by their own egos and easily manipulated by the egos of others. That is why we have a convulsive world, full of corruption and injustice. We live in a world of sheep, ruled by a bunch of wolves who in turn are influenced by a bunch of vultures. It is a world ruled by people who crave power and use fear as a form of control. But those who calibrate below 200 are not able to see such darkness. They do not have enough light (awareness) to see the false as false.

The sage is clear enough to see reality without the filters or distortions of ego or fear. And when he says what he perceives and questions the official narrative (to control the herd) he is belittled or considered a madman. But they are not called crazy but "anti-establishment" or "denialists" or "conspiracists". These are all labels for ridicule (use of passive aggressiveness).

In a society where the majority calibrates below 200 and is therefore ruled by their ego, the sage does not fit in. The sage does not follow the norm and the majority sees him as the black sheep, i.e., sees him as a threat to their sense of belonging to a sick (or unconscious) society.

The ego seeks refuge in the herd. The ego blindly believes in the shepherd (daddy state or daddy institution or daddy friends and family). The ego projects its fear in the form of aggressiveness when it sees its false security threatened. The ego does not know that it lives in darkness (unconsciousness) and is afraid of seeing its reality based on comfortable lies dismantled. When an ego sees an awakened (wise) person it defends itself by attacking, judging, accusing and ridiculing. You will never see a wise man attack or ridicule anyone because the wise man lives in contact with love, and lives in peace because he knows how to discern between what is true and what is not.

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There are those who prefer the truth and there are those who prefer to be right

When you calibrate below 200, your priorities are security, comfort, wealth or power over Truth. When the intellect is at the service of Truth (which calibrates to 1,000) and not at the service of self-interest (ego), then we have an enlightened intellect.

Einstein was a brilliant mind, not only because of his high IQ, but because his intellect was in the service of his wisdom. According to Dr. David R. Hawkins, Einstein calibrated to 499. One of Einstein's most famous phrases was "we cannot solve a problem at the same level where we have created it". By level, he meant the level of consciousness. 100% of the problems are solved as you increase your level of consciousness and disappear altogether when you rise to the 600 level of consciousness (which represents the first degree of enlightenment).

The moment of truth for humanity

Today we are witnessing an important moment for Humanity. We are facing a moment where each of us must decide whether to follow the easy (and safe) path dictated by an authority (and a control or communication media that propagates a single narrative and censors any other possibility) or to follow the narrow path of listening to our intuition, even if that means not following the majority.

We will know which is the right path by the degree of pressure or freedom we feel. If something pressures us (and keeps us from thinking freely), it is not the path of truth. If someone poses as our counselor and uses threat or fear as a form of coercion, it is not the way of truth. The way of truth never pressures, never puts fear. The truth will set us free to assume our responsibility and also will not ridicule us, but will love us whatever our decision.

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How to increase our wisdom or level of consciousness.

The mind must be enlightened with wisdom if we want to transcend (solve at the root) problems. And the easiest way to increase our degree of light (or consciousness) is to expand our love. As we increase our self-esteem (and, therefore, love for the Truth that we are), we increase our wisdom.

Love begins to manifest when we lose the fear of deciding for ourselves (it is called courage). We must learn to love Truth, even if that means the discomfort of having to make changes in beliefs, habits or relationships. But remember that Truth is only uncomfortable for our ego, which lives trapped in a dream of security, of wanting to please and belong to the herd.

As a personal coach, one of the teachings I transmit most to my clients is the concept of responsibility. To be responsible is to be clear that "only you should be satisfied with your decisions, and only he/she/they should be satisfied with theirs". In other words, let us not confuse what I have just said with "selfishness".

For example, if it is about health, "only I am responsible for my health, and only you for yours. Wanting me to change so that you can feel safe is selfish. Wanting you to change so I can be less afraid is selfish. Letting politicians decide about your health without questioning you is giving up your responsibility, but, in the end, it is your decision. But wanting everyone to do the same (because that's what the media bombards us with) is an attack on human freedom and treating you like an irresponsible sheep.

Taking responsibility for your own decisions means thinking for yourself and not ceding that power to anyone else. And to be able to make decisions, it is best to be well informed (intellectually) and, above all, to raise your level of consciousness (wisdom). Remember that what for the ego may be a truth, from a higher level of consciousness, is clearly seen to be false. If for the ego a snake represents a problem, for wisdom, that snake was nothing more than an illusion of lights and shadows and is nothing more than a simple rope exposed to little light.

Some practical exercises

Try a good diet (abundant in fruits and vegetables and reducing meat consumption). Stop watching the news and junk programs (as they calibrate to less than 200). Read more, dance more, sing, play and laugh more. Learn to open and listen to your heart. Learn to calm your mind. Get together with people who are awake and not driven by fear. And why not... invest in a coaching process to surprise yourself and awaken the love and wisdom that dwells within you.