Understanding Exceptional Holistic Intelligence

In this episode of the Gifted Neurodivergent Podcast, we delve into the realm of holistic intelligence. Using our somatic, cognitive, and creative capabilities. The discussion critiques modern education systems for stifling this multi-dimensional genius, particularly somatic intelligence. Using historical figures like Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and Nikola Tesla as examples, the episode highlights the profound potential of holistic intelligence. It also addresses the societal marginalization and exploitation of such intelligence and advocates for creating supportive environments that nurture holistic brilliance. Emphasizing the need to harness and protect the innate intelligence and emotional connections of twice exceptional children, the episode underscores the importance of preparing for future challenges, including societal disruptions and the rise of AI.

00:00 Introduction to Holistic Intelligence

01:49 The Flaws in Our Education System

02:37 Understanding Holistic Intelligence Through Animals

05:07 The Genius of Harriet Tubman

08:19 The Profound Intelligence of George Washington Carver

08:58 Revolutionizing Agriculture: The Power of Holistic Intelligence

10:09 The Exploitation of Genius in Modern Systems

10:44 The Legacy of Tesla: A Cautionary Tale

12:25 The Systematic Suppression of Holistic Intelligence

13:44 Creating Spaces for Holistic Intelligence to Thrive

14:47 The Role of Trauma in Shaping Intelligence

15:56 A Call to Action: Nurturing Future Geniuses

Transcript

Understanding 3D, Holistic, Full, Natural, Genius Intelligence 

[00:00:00] Hello, everyone. Welcome to the gifted neurodivergent podcast. I'm Lillian Skinner. 

Today, I want to talk to you about your holistic intelligence, your full or natural, 3d or genius intelligence. This is the intelligence that we're all born with. And then our promptly trained out of in our school systems. This intelligence encompasses our somatic, our cognitive and our creative intelligence. These are the very clear three kinds of intelligence that we all possess and something that we all need to get back in touch with to find our full intelligence, to navigate the tumultuous change, the coming of AI, the collapse of our society. The unknown. That is our future. 

Now this podcast is for twice exceptional people, because twice exceptional people have potential in a manner that most do not. Holistic intelligence if you look it up in AI will tell you about an intelligence that uses your mind, your body, your emotions, your, heart. That's not what it actually is. [00:01:00] 

Holistic intelligence is natural intelligence or the intelligence you're born with. holistic intelligence uses the body, the mind to understand the big picture. And then it uses the creative intelligence, which is integrated. To create something novel to propel the understanding of the whole picture forward. 

It is this intelligence we need the most right now. To use AI, and create solutions to address the issues our society is facing. Yet , it is this intelligence that is most devalued. Of all our types of intelligence in our society. 

Our systems recognize are somatic. They recognize our cognitive and they recognize our creative, but they do not integrate or teach us how to use them fully, particularly for your somatic, which is amazingly repressed. 

Despite all the rhetoric around genius in our education systems, we do the opposite of teach genius in our schools. Rather, we teach a very flimsy, 2d approach that conditions children out of [00:02:00] their initial 3-d or profound giftedness, and any chance of ever becoming a genius. 

98% of us go into kindergarten as creative genius, which has profound giftedness. That creative genius is then destroyed by our school, forcing us into only cognitive 2d thinking. This is based on the research by Dr. 

George land, who did a study funded by NASA to understand why their engineers had become so uncreative. This study uncovered. Our entire system is set up to destroy creativity. with a mere 2% of adults maintaining creative genius after they finished the school systems. 

To better understand what holistic intelligence looks like. I want you to think of animals that you're surrounded by. Specifically a cat and a dog. Because cats represent animals that haven't been conditioned out of their full intelligence. While , dogs represent animals that have. 

If you ask the scientist who's smarter at a cat or dog. They could tell you that cats [00:03:00] have more neurons that dogs do, but they will still tell you a dog is smarter, even though typically sensory neurons are what determines intelligence. 

This is because they measure based on IQ and dogs will always deliver on IQ because dogs are trained to think in their cognitive, just like humans are in school. 

but dogs essentially are conditioned out of their natural and full intelligence. So that dogs become an extension of their masters. A tool, if you will. . 

This is how humans are conditioned in our school systems. But a cat is not conditioned out of its natural intelligence. A cat has its full intelligence and they can still go out into the world and survive. Whereas dogs essentially live to serve their masters. and will not do well if they are released into the wild. 

This is a basic way to understand holistic intelligence. . Cognitive Intelligence [00:04:00] serves others holistic intelligence serves you. You could see this also in the book The Master and his Emissary, where he talked about right and left brain. We are essentially programmed into our cognitive because it makes us good tools for the system. It allows us to be used by those with resources as an extension of their own intelligence.. 

By understanding that cats represent a way that we could all survive what is coming and dogs represent a way we all survived when we had to stay in the systems. We can understand how holistic intelligence will serve us when things go south and how cognitive intelligence has served us. When we were in systems that were stable. 

 But there is a group and these are the 2% of us who cannot be conditioned out of our cat intelligence, our holistic intelligence, because we are the true geniuses. Holistic intelligence for us goes far beyond [00:05:00] what cat like holistic intelligence would be like. For individuals. That are truly extraordinary. 

I want you to think of Harriet Tubman. Everyone knows of Harriet Tubman as the underground railroad hero. But what you don't really understand about Harriet Tubman is how profound her intelligence was. Harriet Tubman had a traumatic brain injury, probably more than one when she was younger. Yet she was able to find in her somatic cognition, this profound ability to use it as a guide, her body was her compass. She sensed danger and intuited the right path. She could mentally model the incredible value of which path to take and how her pursuers would think/ her ability to keep leading hundreds to freedom repeatedly in ways that always got around how others would perceive or what they were do was. Almost supernatural. [00:06:00] 

But this is comprehensible. When you realize how profound. one somatic intelligence can be. 

Our ability to take in somatic patterns is so much higher than we realize because our somatic oppression is. Severe in our school systems. 

This is what most brilliant ADHD children are responding to the oppression of their somatic, not to the fact that they have a disability. But actually the fact that their full intelligence is not being cultivated. 

Despite that oppression my somatic intelligence managed to be developed in this extreme way where I have much higher access to understanding my somatic patterns or subconscious patterns. 

 Like Harriet Tubman 

2e individual can see and understand what others simply can't. Our intelligence and potential is so profound. That is often uncomprehensible to those who do not possess it. 

which is [00:07:00] why people who are twice exceptional are often believed to be insane because our intelligence is so profound. It's simply not comprehensible to average. 

Harriet Tubman stands apart from others in her profound ability to translate her body wisdom, to translate it to cognition, to use it to navigate the world. This is what the twice exceptional have. If they're allowed the space to cultivate it. So it's very logical that she would be able to sense how her captors would think. How these people, who she sat around and watched in ways that they would never have watched her. So she could think like they could think this is no different than Socrates who didn't write his things down. Probably because his perspective taking was so profound. We have so much genius that we don't understand because their ability to use their bodies. Is a way that is like an instrument. Their ability to [00:08:00] lay down the patterns of the world around them and the people around them. Allows them to navigate them in ways that no one else can. And this is seen as mystical. It seen as religious or spiritual, but in reality, it's just creative intelligence. 

Another person who had this profound intelligence. Is george Washington, Carver. 

George Washington Carver had an intelligence that was not considered scientific. It was seen as spiritual. Yet it was clearly creative intelligence. What he saw was the patterns of nature. He was able to fill in what would happen next using his creative intelligence, using his, his cognitive and his somatic. He understood what to do to get in front of it, which is exactly the profound giftedness. Results in . 

, he didn't simply study plants. He felt them, he believed nature, spoke to him. And in return he found solutions to [00:09:00] transform agriculture of the south. He revolutionized farming practices because he could understand the ecosystems in way textbooks and conventional science didn't because they're 2d and his whole being was involved. 

He was working in 3d plus. He innovated through this profound somatic connection to the natural world. And intelligence that our systems today would dismiss intelligence like mine, which has been dismissed. An intelligence like Dr. Temple Grandin's, who was accepted. But today. I doubt she would've gotten into school. Carver and Tubman demonstrate how powerful holistic intelligence is when it is cultivated with somatic intelligence. But sadly no one. Today. Is allowed this form of nurturing this. Ability to realize their full genius. Unless somebody steps in and removes them [00:10:00] from our systems. This is why all our savant are people who did not go through the education system through elementary or middle. 

The other horrible thing about our full intelligence is the exploitation of genius. Now our systems are very, very aware of the 2% of people that cannot be programmed out of their creative intelligence . I am one of those. My husband is one of those. And what happened to us was we were funneled into technology. Where we created and started divisions and did amazing things. 

. But each time we created, we were discarded once we finished. This is what we do today with in startups. And this is what we do in the past. Tesla is a perfect example. He could visualize entire systems, his head. He understood how electricity and energy and mechanics worked long before anyone else did. And he didn't even need to write it down on paper because it was in him. 

It's the same for me. I have this understanding of how people [00:11:00] naturally need to move through the world. It is in me. If you asked me the question, I can explain it, but I actually never had the question. Because I know it already. I don't think to ask a question because doesn't everybody know this. 

Despite Tesla's revolutionary contributions. Tesla died. Penniless. Alone. He was discarded by the system by Alexander Graham bell who profited from his amazing creativity. But once he wasn't able to keep producing. He was abandoned and died young. 

This is what happens to true genius. This is what happens to people who are incredible. The wealthy exploit them. If they can be found, they will extract it from you. They will destroy you. They will let you know every moment of your life. There's something deeply wrong with you. That you don't deserve what you're getting as they make millions and billions off it. 

Carter's innovation was groundbreaking. Tesla's innovations were groundbreaking. [00:12:00] Their ability to connect with nature, they were used for their contributions used for their depth of intelligence. The way they could feel the earth, but nobody gave them the credit they were due. 

Nobody paid them for the amazing gifts they gave. They changed the world because their holistic intelligence was so profound. It was trivialized as something eccentric and dysfunctional rather than valued. 

This is what our systems do. They take the brightest minds who think holistically and they crush them, use them and then discard them. Those who love most unconditionally, those who give their brilliance without the thought of personal gain are the ones we leave behind unloved and forgotten. 

This is how our system is designed. This is what the 2d does. It turns everyone who isn't a genius against the geniuses from the moment children enter our system. They're conditioned to suppress their wholistic intelligence. They're taught the value of cognition and logic and data and reason their bodies and their emotions and their [00:13:00] intuition are just denigrated. 

But we can't afford this anymore. We cannot afford to ignore a holistic intelligence, the integration of the mind and empathy in the body. It's key for us to figure out the change that has coming . To solve the complex problems of the future. 

Yet right now we have all these twice exceptional children who possess this intelligence who possessed this profound giftedness, the sensitivity somatically, and they aren't being cultivated. They're being destroyed. They are no different than Tesla, Tubman and Carver and our systems teach them to doubt themselves. 

To oppress the somatic cognition that they need to see the solutions for the future to survive. We need places outside of the system. I don't know how to say this enough. 

We need places where holistic intelligence can thrive, where we can understand our full intelligence. I want to understand how my somatic intelligence is so clear, and yet there's nothing in our science books around [00:14:00] it. True genius. Isn't found in ruthless competition. True genius gives freely. 

I'm doing this so we can build a better world, a better place together, because it's very important to me that all children have a place they can go to, to grow and flourish. Because the world is going to need their brilliance in the future. And it is doing nothing other than trying to exploit them. We need to create a place of deep understanding. 

We need to create a place where brilliance can be born and survive and live and thrive. I am creating creative communities for this reason. Because I need them because my children need them. And because a host of other adults and children need them and that amount is only going to grow. There is a connection to trauma here. I had significant trauma as a baby and it connected my intelligence into a unified manner. I realized that some of this is genetic. 

And [00:15:00] then I also have Savantas some of my family, but even my savant ism is beyond my families. There is really profound intelligence in my family, but they do not have the clarity around it. that I do; they have not been formed. The way that I have, because my trauma gave me a steeliness and a lack of fear because I know how to use my full intelligence. I do not wish the trauma I had on anyone. 

And I believe we can build this in our children in a healthy way. We don't need to traumatize them. We don't need to do what Tubman had to go through, or she has multiple traumatic brain injuries so that she could reach her full intelligence because most people don't. It only 2% that do. And those 2% are the twice exceptional. Who are struggling and being told that they are not nearly as brilliant. As they truly are. 

Thank you for listening. 

I hope this was valuable. I hope you have a [00:16:00] slightly better understanding of what holistic intelligence is because what's out there is pretty vague and I hope you'll reach out to me and join. My collective.