24 Strata of the Human Instrument

In doing research on the philosophy of wisdom, may philosophers seem to point the concept of wholeness.  There are many sides to situations, events, and objects.  Looking at all sides is ideal.  For example:

1.  Did the rain ruin your day?  Or did it quench a parched earth, giving way to blooming flowers?

Wisdom requires living, trying alternative solutions to problems, and learning from those solutions. Also, being able to listen to others who have tried solutions to problems and learning from them. It is not wisdom if we simply believe what we are told. True wisdom is to directly see and understand for ourselves. At this level then, wisdom is to keep an open mind rather than being closed-minded and listening to other points of view.

Wisdom is to know and see the true nature of all things.

The Urantia states:

(Wisdom) is the secret of that inborn urge of mind creatures which initiates and maintains the practical and effective program of the ascending scale of existence; that gift of living things which accounts for their inexplicable ability to survive and, in survival, to utilize the coordination of all their past experience present opportunities for the acquisition of all of everything that all of the other 6 mental (ministers) can mobilize in the mind of the organism concerned. 

Wisdom is the "acme" of the intellectual performance.  Wisdom is the goal of a purely mental and moral existence.

1 : quick and ready insight
2 a : immediate apprehension or cognition b : knowledge or conviction gained by intuition c : the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
 

"Intuition is like instinct because you cannot do anything about it."

While doing research, I came across some good material.  Rather than paraphrase, I am just going to copy and past with slight editing.

Intuition can give you answers for ultimate questions -- not verbally but existentially. You need not ask: "What is truth?" Instinct won't hear, it is deaf. Intellect will hear but it can only philosophize; it is blind, it can't see. Intuition is a seer, it has eyes. It sees the truth -- there is no question of thinking about it.

Intuition is independent of you. Intuition is in the hands of the superconscious universe, the consciousness that surrounds the whole universe, the oceanic consciousness of which we are just small islands -- or better, icebergs, because we can melt into it and become one with it. Intuition leads you only to yourself.

Intuition functions in a quantum leap. It has no methodological procedure, it simply sees things. It has eyes to see.

Good quote "Once you have reached to your human potential in its total flowering, you have arrived home."

Another site stated

?There is a universal, intelligent life force that exists within everyone and everything. it resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition: an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.?

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Etymology: Middle English corage, from Old French, from cuer heart, from Latin cor -- more at HEART
Date: 14th century
: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty
synonyms COURAGE, METTLE, SPIRIT, RESOLUTION, TENACITY mean mental or moral strength to resist opposition, danger, or hardship. COURAGE implies firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty <the courage to support unpopular causes>. METTLE suggests an ingrained capacity for meeting strain or difficulty with fortitude and resilience <a challenge that will test your mettle>. SPIRIT also suggests a quality of temperament enabling one to hold one's own or keep up one's morale when opposed or threatened <her spirit was unbroken by failure>. RESOLUTION stresses firm determination to achieve one's ends <the resolution of pioneer women>. TENACITY adds to RESOLUTION implications of stubborn persistence and unwillingness to admit defeat <held to their beliefs with great tenacity

Plato stated "Courage is knowing what not to fear"

Aristotle stated "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others"

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Etymology: Middle English worshipe worthiness, respect, reverence paid to a divine being, from Old English weorthscipe worthiness, respect, from weorth worthy, worth + -scipe -ship
Date: before 12th century
1 chiefly British : a person of importance -- used as a title for various officials (as magistrates and some mayors)
2 : reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; also : an act of expressing such reverence
3 : a form of religious practice with its creed and ritual
4 : extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem <worship of the dollar>

One website says:
Worship is the right disposition of heart towards God; it is that reverence of him which produces a life in character with his.  This statement seems to coincide with the wingmakers material when it states "you will gravitate to life principles symbolic of the creator."

Further more, it says:

Worship is first a spiritual thing, but it is a continual spiritual thing, and not confined by earthly circumstances. It is a continual 'seeing' of the glory of God, and a corresponding awe which regenerates the whole nature. The soul in receipt of grace does graciously.

The document "My Central Message" states the following

There is no supplication that stirs me.  No prayer that invites me further into your world unless it is attended with the feeling of unity and wholeness.  There is no temple or sacred object that touches me.  They do not, nor have they ever brought you closer to my outstretched hand."

However, "My Revelation" indicates that

All of your religions teach the worship of a deity and a doctrine of human salvation.  It is the underlying kinship of your plant's religions.  however, I am not the deity that your worship falls upon, nor am I the creator of your doctrines of human salvation.  Worship of me in coin or moral consideration is unnecessary.  Simply express your authentic feelings of appreciation to my inmost presence within you and others, and you broadcast your worship unfailingly into my realm.

Clearly indicated is the continuous 24/7 authentic appreciation that justifies "worship."

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Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980) was a pioneer in child development.  He tried to discover how children's knowledge grows in a manner consistent with 3 evolutionary processes.

1.  Individual cognitive functioning growth (Last phase of ontogeny)
2.  Biological evolution of the species (the evolution of the first human in particular) (phylogeny).
3.  Scientific evolution (In human History)

Piaget stated

Cognitive development consists of a constant effort to adapt to the environment by the equilibration of assimilation and accommodation.  Assimilation involves the interpretation of events in terms of existing cognitive structures.  Accommodation refers to changing the cognitive structures to make sense of the environment.  Equilibration is a regulatory process that maintains a function balance between assimilation and accommodation to facilitate cognitive growth.  When children and adolescents encounter something reasonably similar to what they already know, it is assimilated into their existing knowledge.  If not, it is ignored or their way of thinking changed to accommodate the new knowledge.

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It also stated that

Primitive human beings early learned that groups are vastly greater and stronger than the mere sum of their individual units. One hundred men united and working in unison can move a great stone; a score of well-trained guardians of the peace can restrain an angry mob. And so society was born, not of mere association of numbers, but rather as a result of the organization of intelligent co-operators. But co-operation is not a natural trait of man; he learns to co-operate first through fear and then later because he discovers it is most beneficial in meeting the difficulties of time and guarding against the supposed perils of eternity.

One website states
Being social, co-operative and trustworthy is a way to thrive and thereby an evolutionary advantage. These traits are built into our nature by evolution.

Furthermore, it states
Society is important because is allows for division of labor. It allows for people to specialize. And the sums of all our specialized efforts are greater than they would be if we all had been generalists. In other words: society is synergy between specialists.

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The Origins of Virtue : Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation

1. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
2. An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another. "He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people." Clarendon.
3. The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends. "There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty them understanding." Job xxxii. 8. "The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the signification of signs; 3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand." Locke. "In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension." Coleridge.
4. Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason. "I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the Germans." Sir W. Hamilton.

Wiggins and McTighe described a number of "indicators" of understanding. Students really understand something, they said, when they can

• explain it
• predict it
• apply or adapt it to novel situations
• demonstrate its importance
• verify, defend, justify, or critique it
• make qualified and precise judgments
• make connections with other ideas and facts
• avoid common misconceptions, biases, or simplistic views.