Crawling in the dark with a candle

[zenmaster]

No, I hadn't considered that. What type of intellectual thought were you thinking of?

Any thinking-related process of evaluation that's used to create new experience.

What about scientific thought? Not so sure about that one. That seems more like "look-up" information that doesn't need to be experienced first hand.
(presuming such information has already been figured out by someone somewhere in the billions+ years that this octave has been around, and assuming that information is stored in an akashic type library)

I'm not sure I follow. What do you mean by "need"?

I guess what we might say is a determining factor for seeing what's important to think about / do within incarnation is, is there any way to learn that particular thing without doing it yourself? For, say, learning the importance of staying true to a spouse can't be fully learned just by hearing someone else talk about it. But by committing to someone yourself and learning all that you can from that experience is the only way to really "know". Science things don't seem that way to me- just like figuring out that 2 + 2 = 4 could be "looked up" (in the akashic records if nowhere else). Does that make sense...

I belive I know where you're coming from, but, believe it or not, ethical principles and scientific principals are of the same nature. It's the logos that determines that you will eventually learn the value of "being true" or the principles of math.

I guess to sum up my first draft opinion here, I'd wager that if the intellectual learning you propose involves someone else or some sort of catalyst then it would be worthy of attention in space/time. But things that don't require that might be less important?

I'd place the evaluation of worth of any pursuit on the individual.. it's really a fool-proof system.

Also there are the densities and their various themes to consider. 3rd denisty being the arena of polarization / choice, or learning the ways of love. 4th being of love, but focused on wisdom. 5th being of wisdom, but focused on unity... 6th being unity and focused on becoming all that is. I've always sort of thought that 5th density was where intellectual thought really counts the most. Here in 3rd, as we prep for 4th, learning to love must certainly count for more than learning intellectually?

What do you believe "love" truly is?