The art of thinking

For most people Intelligence is a beloved talent, a capacity to be proudof. At school it is one of the first things to be examined. There are diversetests to measure the IQ quantitatively. Besides, human intelligence isthe example for artificial intelligence. However ingenious this artificialintelligence may become, there is not even a remote possibility of itsreplicating human intelligence via some technical 'living' artificialintelligence. Even the simplest human thought processes require endlesssequences of decisions, when they have to be formulated by technicalintelligence. On the other hand, for the machine it is possible in less thana second to come to conclusions to questions that would probably take awhole human lifetime...But as an area of spirituality - intelligence is not acknowledged. Thereseems to be a view that intelligence is a field that has to be abandoned ifwe want to penetrate into the deeper wisdom of existence.In this book the author has started to prove the contrary. Intelligence is themind itself and through bringing the mind into activity - with no otherpurpose than this very activity - intelligence proves its spirituality itself. Wedon't even need a high IQ, although its level rises itself as a result of suchactivity. In addition, we don't need any faith - this also will emerge throughthis activity. The only thing we really need is a certain discipline to dedicateour time to intelligence - twenty minutes or so, two times a day.Mieke Mosmuller (born in Amsterdam, 1951) studied medicine at the Uni-versity of Amsterdam and has more than thirty years' experience as a prac-tising doctor. She is also the author of novels and spiritual-philosophicalbooks. Since 1994 she has published more than forty books, some of whichhave been translated into German, English and Danish. With the Dutchcomic Toon Hermans she wrote 'Gewoon God' (Just God) (1998), a seriesof interviews undertaken between 1995 and 1998. Mieke Mosmuller giveslectures and workshops in the Netherlands and Belgium and, since 2009,also in Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.