Body’s Intelligence
Another source of Rickson’s skill is termed as Bodily/Kinesthetic skill. This talent defined by Dr. Howard Gardner in his book Creating Minds (also the author of the bestseller, Multiple Intelligences) is the ability to use many parts of the body to express ideas and feelings and to interpret and invoke effective body language. Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Lance Armstrong and Rickson Gracie would be individuals Dr. Gardner would designate as having extraordinary bodily/kinesthetic ability. I will always remember a seminar Rickson taught in Salt Lake City because Rickson told us over and over that the way we grapple reveals our personality. So, for Rickson, a way of understanding people is not through a verbal conversation but he was able to glean personality types through “rolling.” This information indicates that Rickson’s body, functions as antennae for the brain. And as Gardner states, this knowledge could only be acquired through the body. Bruce Lee may have had this same type of highly refined Bodily/Kinesthetic intelligence. I remember a statement by Dan Inosanto where he spoke about a conversation with Bruce Lee and Bruce said (paraphrasing), “Dan, the secret is in the body.” It is no secret the Bruce Lee was hyperactive and his emphasis on “swimming in the water” and experiencing true reality was foremost for him.
I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand. The operative word “do” suggests that learning something is not just through passive understanding (reading, conversation, watching others) but also through the physical act of doing.
A noted Brazilian Yoga master, Orlando Cani who has trained numerous Brazilian sports champions (Rickson included), spoke about Rickson’s bodily/kinesthetic intelligence in this way:
“Rickson is special. Rickson Gracie was the best student I had. He was the one to assimilate best the process. He’s a very special fighter. Everything he learns he has a strong ability to assimilate and develop it. He has a clever way to assimilate and protect anything he likes.”
In conclusion, an appropriate quote by Shakespeare states: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” I would assert that Rickson’s path to greatness was that he had a father whose single-mindedness and fanatical attention to detail was passed directly to his son. And when speaking of Rickson Gracie’s extraordinary Jiu-Jitsu skills we might envision that when Rickson is grappling he sees Jiu-Jitsu in a three-dimensional world. This capacity allows him to spar, not only from his viewpoint but also from other viewpoints. Thus, a three-dimensioned view. And finally, Rickson’s supreme body-intelligence enhances his understanding of Jiu-Jitsu and is gained from the body having superb skills of sensitivity, adaptability and kinesthetic perception that are gleaned physiologically rather than cerebrally. This then is the difference between being great and Greatness.
“That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time”.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty.
A profile emerged with fifteen characteristics that applied to most eccentrics, ranging from the obvious to the trivial. We found that an eccentric may be described in the following ways, more or less in descending order of frequency. ( Quoting from research by Dr. David Weeks)
Characteristics of Eccentrics
Nonconforming
Creative
Strongly motivated by curiosity
Idealistic: wants to make the world a better place and the people in it happier
Happily obsessed with one or more hobbyhorses (usually five or six)
Aware from early childhood that he is different
Intelligent
Opinionated and outspoken, convinced that he is right and that the rest of the world is out of step
Noncompetitive, not in need of reassurance or reinforcement from society Unusual in his eating habits and living arrangements
Not particularly interested in the opinions or company of other people, except in order to persuade them to his – the correct – point of view
Possessed of a mischievous sense of humor
Single
Usually the eldest or an only child
Bad speller
The first five characteristics listed here are the most important and apply to virtually every eccentric. Nonconformity is, of course, the principal defining trait of the breed.
A profile emerged with fifteen characteristics that applied to most eccentrics, ranging from the obvious to the trivial. We found that an eccentric may be described in the following ways, more or less in descending order of frequency. ( Quoting from research by Dr. David Weeks)
Less likely to be addicted to consumer culture than the general population.
Very unlikely to be substance abusers or alcoholics. Dr. David Weeks “fewer than 30 of the more than 1,000 eccentrics he sampled had been substance abusers or alcoholics.”
Nonconformity, extreme curiosity and irreverence for the strictures of culture continually resurface as the most distinguishable eccentric traits, and these are indeed qualities that most of us consider admirable.
They’re permanently non-conforming from a very early age, and there’s a great overlap between eccentric children and gifted children. They develop differently, though.
The eccentrics become very, very creative but they’re motivated primarily by curiosity. They have extreme degrees of curiosity, and they’re very independent-minded.
Their other motivation is fairly idealistic. They want to make the world a better place, and they want to make other people happy.
They have these happy obsessive preoccupations, and a wonderful, unusual sense of humor, and this gives them a significant meaning in life. And they are far healthier than most people because of that.
They have very low stress. They’re not worried about conforming to the rest of society, low stress, high happiness equates with psychological health.
They use their solitude very constructively, and physical health, because of that.
They only visit their doctors perhaps once every eight or nine years, which is about twenty times less than most of us do. (David Weeks)
“Time and again, the eccentrics in our study clearly evinced that shining sense of positivism and buoyant self-confidence that comes from being comfortable in one’s own skin.” Dr. David Weeks
A look at a developmental map of consciousness, Spiral Dynamics. Evolution is vertical, are we looking horizontal?
Note: Each level, or meme, of the wave is holistic. This means that it includes and transcends former levels. It can go up and down, mix various levels at the same time. It has been compared to a storm or tornado spiral of alternativing waves, but what is also true is that a culture gravitates toward a certain perspective at a particular time. So, yes, each meme here is just a general overview, and you will see it before it became the dominant wave in a society. That’s normal and natural.
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50% of the human race has not evolved fully into the third circuit yet.
That is, although they can exchange primitive signals and handle primitive artifacts, they are still mostly operating on the mammalian emotional circuit and the pre-mammalian bio-survival circuit.
II
EMOTIONAL
III
CONCEPTUAL
20% are “responsible, intelligent adults” with fully developed third and fourth circuits.
They spend most of their time worrying, because the predominantly primate parameters of human society seem absurd, immoral and increasingly dangerous to them.
IV
SOCIAL
CHAPEL
PERILOUS
The place “souls” go after leaving their robot bodies…while these bodies are still alive and walking the planet’s surface. Also known as “The Dark Night of the Soul.” Can also be seen as a negative activation of the “neurosomatic circuit,” which is endured for as long as it takes the neophyte to effect a positive activation, or permanent body rapture. Ref.
V
BODY
20% are neurosomatic adepts.
Fourth-circuit Moralists denounce them as “mystics,” “space cases,” “nuts,” “the Me generation,” “irresponsible hedonists,” etc.
VI
MIND
5% have mastered the metaprogramming circuit.
They make up what Gurdjieff called “the Conscious Circle of humanity.” They are Free Masons, in the original meaning of that debased term: co-creators of future realities.
VII
LIFE
3% have neurogenetic consciousness.
They function as Evolutionary Agents—servants of the Life Force, in Shaw’s terminology. Their “God” is Pan (life), and their goal is immortality.
I am giving a heads up to anyone interested in mind mapping. I found a great new online mind mapping program that you can invite others to collaborate on and that you can publish if you like. I am working on one already and will publish it once it is a little more developed.
In Mind42, 42 is not only the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything! 42 means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42, because that is exactly what mind42 is: A collaborative browser-based online mind mapping tool.
It allows you to manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world. As mind42 runs inside the browser, installing mind mapping tools is no longer needed – for a hassle-free mindmapping experience. Just open the browser and launch the application when needed – it behaves like a classical desktop application!
Mind42 is a web application – however, this doesn’t mean yout have to set your comfort aside. Mind42 is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mind map editor supporting keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, zooming and much more. No forms and lists which are generally used in web application. A real application – within your browser.
I am posting this as an experiment in the continued effort to utalize Cyberian resources for learning, sharing and collaborating on projects. Stay tuned!
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These pen and ink sketches are drawn using both hands simultaneously. I have always been into ambidextrous exercises and ways of developing and using my whole brain. This kind of exercise can serve many purposes, the most obvious one is getting both sides of the brain fired up and connected. Another obvious use I noticed while drawing these is as a divinatory or/and automatic drawing method. Beginning with no plan or idea as to what I would draw, I focus on a specific topic, I begin to notice the drawing suggesting a very relevant message that pertains to what I am focusing on. If I am not focusing on anything, the drawing soon leads me to a focus that is significant for the moment. As I continue to draw this way I notice the drawings getting less scary and disturbing, perhaps some things are getting worked out through this process.
Aside from the therapeutic, free association quality this process has, I have used this ambidextrous method to come up with some great designs to elaborate on and change in more conventional medium and styles. I wonder what other ideas you might think of where this process could be of help.
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