The Great Emptiness (or), the "Nothingness"

[Sacred Fool]

There is a role to be played by the intellect as well as the intuition and emotions, and every other facet of self.

 
Yes, and the Confederation's suggestion is that one begin on the surface, then move deeper into the mysteries of self.  This is laid out in the Ra quote above, but the general progression of spiritual exploration is not so obvious to us because it is unseen.

https://llresearch.org/transcripts/issue..._0816.aspx
 

The workings of the heart are not seen. The self-acceptance or lack of it is not seen. The love or hunger for love in relationships is not seen. Circumstances only are seen. There is, my friends, a reason for this. The design is to so baffle, frustrate and confuse the intellect with all the data of the senses that the student will be forced to move the center of investigatory energy from the intellectual mind, which is a creature of this illusion only, to the wisdom of the deep mind, which is vastly more informed and which resides in what you would call the heart energy center. This center is the gateway center wherein, when the lower energies have been cleared, the gate becomes opened so that you can effectively focus the heart’s wisdom upon the situation you wish balanced within you.