9 types of intelligence. Are there more?

i. dissociative etc.

Although there a few other connections, I had a recent converstation with a psychiatrist about having been referred to as an idiot savant. To which he replied (not his exact words)I wasn't dumb enough to be in that category which is typical for people who have down syndrome.

I had also said I was diagnosed as having dissociative identity disorder and repressed memories I was recalling to which he also said isn't recognized either. And yet some websites say differently. I suppose he is what some people refer to as a: "Bot?" or similar.

I did notice that he was nearly motionless and his eyes didn't seem to blink either as if reading from some texbook page from memory or teleprompter somewhere in the room.

A person with DID or alternate personalities would seem to me to be an idiot savant if they were to pass these tests also.

To assume anything from textbooks this way isn't enough proof either.

Let's not forget Get Smart or "Ow, that smarts!" either.

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Can we categorize people accurately into different personality types ? I mean take Einstein for example he was a brilliant mathematician ( left hemisphere - thinker ) yet he himself admitted intuition played a huge part in his theories - because he was AWARE but how many intellects are totally blind to the fact this faculty is functioning on a subconscious level ?

Einstein quotes



When we get intuition what functions come into play - all of our senses - what function then helps to analyse and act on that data ? ( Intellect.) Normally we are totally oblivious to each individual function and their interaction with one another. And in all honesty Seagrass surely creativity would have to be the closest function associated with the Creator so what does that tell you about yourself

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I really don't have any of those i would not consider myself smart at anything actually. I am married to a high functing aspergers person, he has an IQ of an genius, he has a photographic memory, and just so many other traits i wish i had. My kids are smart from their Father, as my gene pool contributes nothing to their intelligence. All of my kids are advanced in school. I on the other hand, i'm the dummy in the family. My husband comes from a whole line of artistic and mathematical genius's. I so wish i had his brain!! I told him this many times, and he doesn't get it, he said you want aspergers, I said no I want you IQ and photographic memory and your smarts ion science and math, that's all. LOL.

Thanks Destiny, but Einstein could play the violin... I am starting a little theory that math and music are related to some kind of genius I don't have. It's ok. I don't think I am stupid or anything, and I wouldn't want to be like my genius relatives. They don't have the people skills that I value. I must have chose those skills to be better at for some purpose.
You have word smarts. You have a way with words, you make them beautiful. And you have people skills because you are my friend.

I doubt it. I think you must be really good at something. Like the senses you have devoted your time and energy to something, and maybe you haven't given that topic or issue enough credit. Perhaps you are a genius at something others haven't given enough value. What is it? Are you a wonderful mom, do you support others to get them where they want to go, are you a giver? I don't even know what aspergers is and i am going to have to look it up.....

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You are a genius of kindness - I don't know what I would of done without your support and because of that you have a very special place in my heart. You have amazing inuition - insight and analytical skills - the list could go on and on

Such lists of understanding could be refined and argumented about until the cows come home. However let's assume that this list is accurate. It's trough to find's one's spacing within such a ridgid list. One should keep in mind that these are just conditions, and that ones' self doesn't have to fit into any catagory as we are all a mixture of such a list. There are those that might fall under stupid accross the board and those that might have smarts scattered about the list, however I'd say true inteligents would be finding a ballance.

Maybe such a list is like a shopping list:

Flower
Sugar
Eggs
Milk
Fruit
Butter

It's the combination of said ingredents as to meausre and usage that makes the diffrence between bread, muffins, cakes, and an omlet.

excellent analogy. I am trying to figure out what I want to make for breakfast... Or what kind of recipe makes for enlightenment or happiness...

(((Destiny))) You just described yourself. I wish I was able to have your dreams and abilities to see the beauty and connection in all things. Your spirituality is genius.

- Emotional Intelligence:
(to understand and be aware of the reason's in feeling emotions)

- Cosmic Intelligence:
(to understand and be aware of the universal mind and universal life)

- Spiritual Intelligence:
(to be aware of, and understand the spiritual body and its energies)

- Personal Intelligence:
(to understand and be aware of your own self and who you are)

Deep introspective intelligence can also relate to other intelligences of the mind. From a deep and concious level, all of the connections in life seem apparent. For example, to have understanding is a type of intelligence, to be aware of the reasoning for other's actions and their motivations.

Understanding is not something you choose to have, it is intelligence.
At the point where a person is choosing to allow themselves to have understanding when they allready have the knowledge, they would be choosing the opposite pole of understanding, which is ignorance. Understanding is a dual meaning word, it means to know and understand the truth and it shows you the way to compassion with that understanding and through the proper utilization of that understanding comes wisdom.

To have understanding but to choose not to use it, you are dulling the mind. To have understanding is intelligence. Everything you talk about when putting intelligence into classifications is about having an understanding about those things. It may even be a personal thing with someone, to have understanding of the truth of anothers situation would bring intelligence with the understanding and you would be wise. Wisdom come not from knowledge, but the proper utalization of said knowledge.

Sometimes it is the simplest and small things that invoke the greatest and most shaking truths in the mind.

I know there's more but these came to the forefront of my mind.

Truth along with understanding reside within. To follow your own truth with your understanding is called wisdom. In other words, to follow through with what you beleive to be truth is wise. You can only be as wise as is as much of your understanding that you have. My thoughts are all over the place so its hard to write coherently, sorry.

I will post more if I think about it later.

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I'd have those 4 intellegences, they come naturally to me, so much so that my logic and earthly intellegences has to play catch up.

But what does it mean if you have universal and spiritual intellegences?

I mean I'm pretty much normal and your average intellegent person. IQ is slighty above average last time I did it.


I mean, Knowing you have this? what does it mean. I'm not an einstein obviously, but what would you call people who are sharply intutive??

Just wonderings

Hmm.......sorry, I can't accept that in the simple terms you have described.

What if the persons belief of truth is based on little truth and/or limited understanding without accepting there's more?

Isn't that called "ignorance"?

I suppose what you've described IS true if we accept it could also relate to "bad" wisdom, but then it's not wise!

Wisdom from Dictionary.com

But inner truth is in everyone, and most people don't tap that part. Where the wisdom is.

It is ignorant of course to blindly say that your personal truth is all knowing. That is not wisdom. I have inner knowing and the inner source from within speaks to me, it's true as it comes to me. But I don't hold that knowing to be the ultimate. I don't take the wisdom personal. Wisdom isn't personal. I would think that is ignorant and blocking actual wisdom from coming through to think wisdom comes from the self.


Does this make much sense?


Maybe he meant, been true to yourself, means wisdom is coming through, rather than followin your own wisdom. God this is confusing lol.

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For those of you that KNOW.... this thread has been manufactured by A CERTAIN COMMITEE to extract certain points of information from you all... - and they are doing this because they are actually scared of PROMETHEUS...- but make haste.... slowly....

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Yeah, my head hurts too....great innit?

Better than telly anyday.

I'm going to have to ponder the "wisdom from the self" thing though.

I don't quite understand where else my wisdom would come from, except the personal experiences and accumulated learnings of my life.

Is that not part of my "self"? It's hard to divorce that knowledge back to it's origin and see it as a true source. Without my personal skills it's just knowledge isn't it. It became wisdom when I understood how to use the knowledge to benefit.

Most people can count but few are great mathematicians. Anyone can read a dictionary or thesaurus but few can write a great novel....hope this makes sense.

Pass the paracetamol..

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Well the higher self, is what I believe the real you that "knows" this life path and what you are here to do. The ego and the self, is what I think your getting the higher self mixed up with in regards to the above questioning of wisdom comign from the self. The ego is the basic self. The part that is purely on survival needs. Wisdom is not accessed through the ego self. I think I understand your point to the other poster, in asking about his notion's of the wisdom purely coming from the "self" in that case. I think He should of meant the Higher self.

Your life experiences and life it's self around is here, is to teach you and show you. IF your truly aware of your purpose, then you will just "know" Your higher power know's. I think that is part of what he meant.

Like for example, your higher power/self knows, but you might not. But your experience's in life, are a guide and path to show you to become what you are and what you are here to do. This wisdom coming through to you from the higher mind. The higher self is the divine part of you.


Hope this might help in some way? I'm already taking stuff my headache
There is wisdom for ya jk.





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Scared? hmmmmm.


Ok.

Now moving on. I don't think it really matters.

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Yeah, some confusion in the translation me thinks....

"Myself" & my "self".

I would also agree that the ego carries little wisdom at all, and infact is probably the seed of ignorance eh?

My all time favorite book..In The Dark Places Of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley.

Veeeery deep. Interesting stuff about "incubation" and the lost and forgotten secrets of self-healing.