Whatever the true nature of reality, it has to be able to be ‘sensed’ or sensible by any level of (human) intelligence — as in, consciousness. Any and all beings that possess consciousness should be able to sense the true nature of things, because it cannot be that reality is only knowable by a select few. It cannot be elitist in that way, because then it would be inconsistent. As Gödel showed, mathematics cannot define itself in its own terms; it needs ‘something else’ for that. Consciousness is that outside-the-system ‘something else’ when it comes to the true nature of reality, and so all beings who possess it must be able to discern that nature, or at least some glimpse of it.
I know it seems that elitism is exactly what I claimed in my piece Greatness Is, but what I'm saying there, rather, is that people who have really allowed reality to impress its truth upon them — which is a question of surrender, not conquest — are the ones who can see it. It’s very possible to block it off, and many do — wrapped up as they are in consensus reality, materialism, determinism, strict causality, etc. This is heartening because it could be that a sufficiently sensitive person, despite not being very educated or ‘intelligent’, could access the deepest truths about our reality.
Diana Szabo, July 2020.
