Sensitivity is intelligence not pathology

I use the term sensitive as a catch-all term for anyone who might otherwise be labeled and drugged by psychiatry. Neurodiverse has become the norm. Neurodiverse, however is being co-opted by psychiatry and the pharmaceutical companies so I don’t like it. There is no perfect way to describe these issues. I actually believe that all human beings are naturally sensitive. Most are simply buried under tons of conditioned BS. Language falls short in these matters.

Sensitivity in its highest form is intelligence. Without sensitivity to everything – to one’s own sorrows; to the sorrow of a group of people, of a race; to the sorrow of everything that is – , unless one feels and has the feeling highly sensitivized, one cannot possibly solve any problem. And we have many problems, not only at the physical level, the economic level, the social level, but also at the deeper levels of one’s own being – problems that apparently we are not capable of solving. I am not talking of the mathematical problems, or the problems of mechanical inventions, but of human problems: of our sorrows, of despair, of the narrow spirit of the mind, of the shallowness of one’s thinking, of the constant repetitive boredom of life, the routine of going to office every day for forty or thirty years. And the many problems that exist, both consciously and unconsciously, make the mind dull, and therefore the mind loses this extraordinary sensitivity. And when we lose sensitivity, we lose intelligence.–Krishnamurti from The Collected Works Volume XV

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And we must feel the planet and all of life too

Sensitivity is intelligence

Chronic illness – My “chronically ill” body rewards my gentle persistent attentions with never-ending insights into the nature of being an embodied human. Healing is alchemy and it never ends. The sensitive body holds the entire world’s pain, trauma, joy and madness within it. And yes, the suggestion is that most of us are not embodied. The conditioned self is disembodied. Coming to embodiment can be very painful.

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