AT THE FRONT TRENCHES IN THE SIEGE of MEANINGLESSNESS, is BEYONDISM. Your current level in academic achievement is the captured territory. Behind it are those secure regions in which African Assertiveness builds your imperfect and marvelous world. As you leave the fruits of victory to your intellectual incisiveness, BEYONDISM propels you to move with divine discontent, to the uncertain and unexpected.

This will be made possible, by your ability to connect to your environment, and have the fingertip feel for the ‘Times’. It is the most primal and in many ways the most powerful form of MASTERY your brain can bring you. You will gain such power by first transforming yourself into a consummate observer. You will see everything in your surrounding as potential sign to interpret.

However, a profound, ‘extensive’ AWARENESS of your social environment, emanates from a deeper, ‘intensive’ AWARENESS of THYSELF.

SEVEN therapeautic tonics to loftily LOCATE your LIFE’s BASIC BEARING:

1. BORN radically unique is each human. This is inscribed in the one-of-a-kind configuration of our DNA, the particular way our brains are wired, and personal experiences.
2. ENCOUNTERS we go through LIFE, are unlike any other’s. Consider this uniqueness as a seed that is planted at birth, with potential growth. And this uniqueness has a purpose.
3. ASPIRE to bring your uniqueness to flower in the course of your LIFE, through your particular skills and the specific nature of your work, thus contributing your share to culture.
4. REALLY, this uniqueness transcends our individual existence. It is stamped upon us by Nature itself. How can we explain why we are drawn to music, or to helping others?
5. INHERITING this uniqueness is not by accident. Consequently, striving to connect to and cultivate it provides us a path to follow, an internal guidance system through LIFE.
6. NORMALLY, the signs are clearer to us in early childhood. We found ourselves drawn to particular subjects. We can call these primal inclinations. They speak to us, like a voice.
7. GETTING older, that voice becomes drowned out by parents, teachers. We are told what to like. We start to lose a sense of ourselves. We choose career paths unsuited to our Nature.

As early as in this developmental stage of youth, nothing should be taken at face value; your academics, your comrades, your parents, and your teachers. You should become like the spider, sensing the slightest vibration on your web. Over the years as you progress on this path, you will begin to merge your knowledge of these various components into an overall feel for the environment itself. Instead of exerting and overtaxing yourself to keep up with a complex, changing environment, you will know it from the inside and can sense the changes before they happen.

This now boils down to SEVEN parameters to define ‘Cognition’ and ‘Intelligence’:

1. Cognition has to do with how a person understands and acts in the world.
2. Cognition is the set of abilities or processes that are part of nearly every human action.
3. Cognitive abilities are brain based skills we need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex.
4. Cognitive abilities have more to do with the mechanisms of how we learn, remember, and pay attention rather than with any actual knowledge.
5. Intelligence is the ability to create an effective product or offer a service that is valued in a culture.
6. Intelligence is a set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve problems in LIFE.
7. Intelligence is the potential for finding or creating solutions, which involves gathering new knowledge.

Recent advances in current theory and research on the structure of human cognitive abilities have resulted in a new empirically derived model commonly referred to as the Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities (2011).

To utilise maximally your innate responsive and adaptive capacity, you have to know where your strength lies in the correlations among a wide range of ‘Cognitive’ and ‘Intelligence’ modalities.

Here is BEYONDISM FORMIDABLE FORMULA for SELF-ACTUALIZATION
(The ‘head’ and ‘tail’ of Activating your SELFHOOD) in regard to:
Being a shifter of paradigms in areas where your MIND is highly creative.

1. FUNCTIONALLY, the birth of a NEW idea comes best when everything is going well and will be painful.
   Core Choice #43: Do not attempt to tamper with the process.
   Sure Score #43: And above every else do not deny the pain.
2. OFTEN, major breakthroughs are made upon discovering what will do, by finding out what will not do.
   Solid Stance #43: The person who never made a real mistake never made an enduring discovery.
   Catalysing Consideration #43: The policy is (7F’s): Fail, fail, fail, finally find Formidable Formula.
3. RESEARCH shows that the Left and Right shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago.
   Mighty Mission #43: Creativeness often consists in turning up what is already there.
   Vivid Vision #43: Today, the struggle is about creativity and innovation; no script.
4. MOST vital, the earthly Paradise lies in your PSYCHE, which no one can enter except by God’s leave.
   Gaining Ground #43: One does not discover new lands, while in view of the old lands.
   Capturing Clouds #43: One must consent to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
5. UNDERSTAND and keep in mind that many key discoveries are usually not made by one person alone.
   Lofty Leap #43: Many brains and many hands are needed before a discovery is made.
   Merry Momentum #43: For which one person receives the credit – and it should be you.
6. LOOK out for gaps to be filled: If necessity is the mother of invention, then resourcefulness is the father.
   Holy Hearken #43: The first attribute of a BEYONDIST is an insatiable curiosity.
   Divine Distinction #43: All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
7. ARCHIMEDES, while washing, discovered the computation of gold’s ratio in King Hiero’s crown.
   Prudent Planting #43: This vision was triggered by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool.
   Hoped Harvest #43: He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, ‘I have found it! Eureka!’

Therapeautic Takeaway #43

Cardinal Concept #43: As substantially scribed FOR YOU. ..............
Move BEYOND subconscious passion for details to examining and calling all things into question.
Critical Canon #43: As candidly cracked BY YOU. ..............
To BECOME a believer in using my mind and convinced that there is no limit to my thoughts.
Renaissance Rehearsal #43: As purposively partook BY YOU. ..............
REFUSE discouragement and encumberance, to note the signs of awakening my INSPIRATIONS.

#43. In as much as I want to utilise fully my MENTAL ability,
Which are the signs that I am awakening my INSPIRATIONS?

By INSPIRATION, one is the mere incarnation, mouthpiece or medium of an Almighty power.
It is the idea of revealation in the sense that something becomes suddenly visible and audible.
This is with indescribable certainty and accuracy, which profoundly convulses and upsets one.
One hears — one does not seek; one takes — asking not who gives: no choice in the matter.
A thought suddenly flashes up like lightning; it comes with necessity, and so unhesitatingly.
There is an ecstasy, such that the immense strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears.
One is neither moving nor motionless; one’s steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately.

#43. I, ___________________________, submitting myself to the MYSTICAL state of being INSPIRED, in order to arouse my CREATIVE impulses, with the intent of being insanely productive, do DECISIVELY DECLARE that, this is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quivering to the very toes. There is a depth of happiness in which the most painful and gloomiest do not operate as antitheses (opposites), but as conditioned, as demanded in the sense of necessary shades of colour in such an overflow of light. There is an instinct for rhythmic relations which embraces wide areas of forms (length, the need of a wide-embracing rhythm, is almost the measure of the force of an inspiration, a sort of counterpart to its pressure and tension). Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity. The involuntariness of the figures and similes is the most remarkable thing; one loses all perception of what constitutes the figure and what constitutes the simile; everything seems to present itself as the readiest, the most correct and the simplest means of expression.

In this reference, as a BLESSED BEYONDIST, I hereby, make an ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION that, the peculiarity of mystical states lies in their being more like states of feeling than like states of intellect, such that no one can make clear to another who has never had a certain feeling, in what the quality or worth of it consists. Besides being states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect, they are illuminations, revealations, full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority for after-time. I have realised that mystical states cannot be sustained for long, except in rare instances, half an hour, or at most an hour or two, which seems to be the limit BEYOND which they fade into the light of common day. Often, when faded, their quality can but imperfectly be reproduced in memory; but when they recur it is recognised; and from one recurrence to another it is susceptible of continuous development in what is felt as inner richness and importance. Although the oncoming of mystical states may be facilitated by preliminary voluntary operations, as by fixing the attention, or going through certain bodily performances, yet when the characteristic sort of consciousness once has set in, as mystic I will feel as if my own will were in abeyance (suspended), and indeed sometimes as if I am grasped and held by a superior power. This latter peculiarity connects mystical states with certain definite phenomena of secondary or alternative personality, such as prophetic speech, automatic writing, or the mediumistic trance. When these latter conditions are well pronounced, however, there may be no recollection whatever of the phenomenon, and it may have no significance for my usual inner life, to which, as it were, it makes a mere interruption. I understand that, mystical states, strictly so-called, are never merely interruptive; some memory of their content will always remain, and a profound sense of their importance; they will modify my inner LIFE between the times of their recurrence.