INSPIRATION
ARTICLE
The Everyday Genius
by Colleen Mauro
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Our famous artists, writers,
scientists, and entrepreneurs are often seen as rare
and special beings endowed
with gifts and talents that
most of us lack.
have discovered that many of our most
celebrated creative thinkers—the people
we call geniuses or visionaries—credit
their greatest achievements to their contact with the soul. Many spoke of the soul
as a portal to a universal source of inspiration and beauty. Once connected to this
source, ideas and images simply flowed into their
brains.
The Ageless Wisdom teachings have long provided the training we need to tap this universal flow
of wisdom and knowledge. These teachings, also
called the esoteric or mystery teachings, were once
taught in the ancient mystery schools and first put
into book form by the Hindu sage Patanjali, author
of The Yoga Sutras.
In this classic book, Patanjali wrote that the mind
has two levels—the lower or rational mind and the
higher or intuitive mind. The soul, our gateway to
the higher worlds, is the link between our higher
and lower minds. When we train the lower mind to
make contact with the soul, the soul transmits information from the higher mind to our brains. We
then have direct access to the subtle worlds where
information on all subjects can be found.
We see the fruits of this experience all around us,
from our most beautiful works of art to the scientific breakthroughs and inventions that have revolutionized our world. Many of our most renowned
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artists, writers, scientists, and business leaders
have left a record of this experience.
When we train the lower
mind to make contact with
the soul, the soul transmits
information from the higher
mind to our brains.