The Human Intelligence Trust
Notes for a Manifesto
Thought is destiny.
How we think about the world is how we act in the world. How we think about each other is how we relate to each other. How we think of ourselves is how we experience ourselves.
To think better is to live better. To live better is to think better.
Thinking is more than thinking. Thinking is feeling, sensing, desiring, caring, questioning, entrusting, and creating.
The mind is rooted in the body. The body is rooted in the world. There is a seamless connection between our thoughts and the planet that sustains us.
No mind is an island. Human being is social being. Even our most private thoughts draw on language, a vast constellation of shared experience.
Each of us is born into a field of human thought. We can fall asleep in the field, or we can rouse ourselves to participate. This is a choice.
Today a new kind of sleep is rolling over the planet: the hypnotic of fabricated minds. Do we surrender? Or do we protect and nurture the mental wilderness?