As I wander around Mensa land I notice three kinds of people. I call them Hydrogen types, Helium types and Lithium types. Each type of person is quite distinct in their type of intelligence and each could easily create IQ tests that would prove their own type of intelligence superior! I choose the terms Hydrogen types, Helium types and Lithium types for a good reason. These elements represent the types of intelligences remarkably well in my opinion. They also represent types of energies that could be associated with intelligence.
The most common type in Mensa land is the Lithium type. It is interesting that lithium is used to help prevent hallucinations in people with mental illness. These people are rabid about being physical materialists and most are atheists Believing only in the powers of science and the powers of logic and reason. In fact, these people are the priests and priestesses of logic and reason. They spend their hours in debate pondering imponderables such as how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. They believe that they can prove their personal position to others! So they spend their hours submitting proofs of their own argument.
The weakness of the Lithium type is that anyone can prove anything through logic and reason! Using logic and reason it is possible to prove that today is the best day of your life and also logically prove today is the worst day of your life! The Lithium type will inevitably use circular reasoning and wind up arguing against themselves. Logic and reason always end in paradox! Those massive convoluted theories and abstractions lead no where in the final analysis.
The next type is the Helium type. These people have minds like magnets, seemingly capable of directly perceiving the simplicity of reality in an effortless manner. This Helium energy is not a mental energy like Lithium but a spiritual energy. It is concrete spiritual energy or archetypal energy. This direct perception of self evident things has a name and it is called Christ consciousness. By the standards of the ancient world these people have attained Christ consciousness and are Christ’s in physical bodies! You can’t argue with them because what they say makes perfect sense! They are always right, at least in their own mind!
The weakness of the Helium type is that they are heavily polarized toward the light or toward the dark and are absolutely convinced that their way of perceiving the world is the one and only correct way! The clarity of their vision is matched only by their own blind spots which they remain unable to recognize.
The last is the loftiest of them all just like Hydrogen is the lightest of all elements. The Hydrogen type directly experiences Unity and paradox resolution. They are not only aware of things through direct perception but also aware of their own blind spots and seek ways to work around them for a more balanced perspective. These are the Einstein’s of the world, capable of understanding how light and matter are interchangeable. They are like Dewey Larson and his Reciprocal Field Theory, showing how each element, indeed all things are created out of vibratory motion to create photons, sub-atomic particle and how these in turn create rotating magnetic fields and atomic particles to finally lead to life itself. These types of visions are called Cosmic Consciousness or God Consciousness and these individual are keenly aware we are part of all things and that all things are part of us. In ancient times this type of consciousness was also termed Buddha consciousness and those able to attain it were Buddha’s.
The Hydrogen type is marked by intense visions and the ability to overcome duality in all its forms. All of life is seen as a balance of light and dark, all is experienced as bitter-sweet. These people have integrated both their dark side and their light side and they have discovered what it truly means to be human and divine at the same time. You will not find this type arguing philosophical subjects because they deeply understand the futility of it. They won’t be found polarized around a cause because they deeply understand that anything that physically manifests is already balanced with a dark side and a light side. Instead these people will share life and embrace it in all ways, the ups and downs, joys and sorrows. They are the ones that appear simple, but are extremely wise.
Remember that one out of fifty people in the United States qualifies for Mensa and fits one of these groups!
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