CreaSentisciente

One of the inherent problems in practicing a discipline, or in acquiring any kind of knowledge, is that sooner or later, we all come to believe that such knowledge—or art or discipline—is applicable to everything: to any case, situation, event, or occurrence.

This is what I’ve been calling the problem of egocentric knowledge.

For example, if you speak with a lawyer, they’ll respond with laws; a historian with events; a doctor will offer a diagnosis; a pharmacist might suggest a remedy; and if you ask a yoga master, the solution will lie in meditation (though this last case is the one closest to the truth).

But in reality, things don’t quite work that way. Mastery of a field of knowledge or discipline does not necessarily require the development or application of higher-order metacognitive tasks (with the exception of meditation, which is precisely why it comes closer to the truth).

These metacognitive tasks belong more to complex or higher-order thinking, and also to various forms of meditation, contemplative activities, or acts of observation and self-observation—since in essence, all of these are indeed higher-order metacognitive processes. That is why, when I refer to complex thinking, I’m not merely speaking of the ‘perfection or excellence’ of reason. Far from it. Although it’s true that metacognitive tasks imply certain levels, they all share one fundamental trait: they are evolutionary. Complex thinking goes beyond critical analysis or creative ability. It opens the way toward conscious awareness. It is a window into Evolution.

In the previous developments of The EVA Process, certain phases or levels are established that determine different degrees or states of intensity, ranging from conventionality to transcendentality. That is, from the capacity to analyze-think to the capacity to intuit-feel. This is one of the most relevant aspects of what I have named Evolutionary Metacognition.

Self-Learning

This is one of the principles on which I base the assertion that only self-taught people are truly free, since they are neither prisoners of nor bound by any previously acquired knowledge. Moreover, this freedom of thought and action allows for the prevention of error—which naturally does not imply total exemption—because such freedom grants us the capacity to know and to be able to succeed, based on another of Evolution’s principles. Namely:

The best way to avoid error is to do what, being necessary, is within my reach.

Certainly, seen this way, this principle may seem ambiguous. How do we know what is necessary? Let me explain briefly.

When faced with any situation, and we approach it with a prior theoretical conception of ‘how things are,’ shaped by the mastery of our acquired knowledge, discipline, or art, we cannot clearly see what is truly necessary in that situation, because our response will always be conditioned by what we know how to do—and here lies the important detail: since I know how to do it, I can do it, and therefore it becomes necessary. This is the origin of what I have termed the problem of egocentric knowledge.

But the fact is, not everything within my reach has to be necessary. In reality, it is much more elemental. The necessity or not of an action must be determined in terms of interflow. Or, if you prefer, in terms of synchronicity and frequency. And we must not confuse ourselves. In the countless professional practices carried out daily in the probably billions of companies and organizations around the world, these fields or zones of interflow and/or synchronicity and frequency either exist—whether deliberately sought or not—or those professional practices inevitably tend toward chaos sooner or later. And this applies to every area of life. Not only human life.

Creativity is consciousness in its purest state

Although generally unconscious.

Practicing a certain intellectual equidistance regarding everything we already know how to do greatly helps in learning new things. It is important to emphasize that a good capacity for critical and self-critical analysis helps us avoid falling permanently into the worst trap of all: self-deception. Thanks to it, we can prevent our memory from causing lapses and errors. In the study, practice, and development of critical and creative thinking, it is known that what is unknown tends to be written and rewritten by the imagination.

And this, despite seeming like a problem that could lead to false beliefs, wrong judgments, or mistakes, is actually presented to us as a great virtue. One of the pillars of Evolution: the ability to create what does not exist.

That is to say, what imagination fills in is not bad in itself. The only error we can make is failing to properly attend to the interflow of energy. Every error is born from deliberately ignoring the conjunction of synchronicity and frequency.

By now, we have enough theoretical-quantum information to consider that perhaps matter is only a projection. Maybe it is a mistake. Or not. Time will tell. What is a certain fact at this point is that having information does not imply knowing how to handle it. And not knowing how to handle it does not imply its falsity.

And that is why it is so beautiful to have dreams… because sometimes, the best ones illuminate unimaginable spaces.