Living knowledge - the latest drug hitting the streets of Europe

"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzybski

The difference between intellectual knowledge and living knowledge is the difference between being able to repeat something mindlessly for a debate or having a ready practical application. Living knowledge is a part of ourselves through doing and experience.

Intellectual knowledge is separate from us - accessible only as words and ideas. Intellectual knowledge can become living knowledge but it requires application, exploration, experimentation and experience. So often the two are confused. People with intellectual knowledge believing they have living knowledge walking around telling people that do have living knowledge how to live their lives and the world is shaped around them.

Knowledge is power, but knowledge without action is useless. Living knowledge is an individual's own spell book, ways that the user knows through experience that they can get a desired result because they have done it before. Professors that have spent no time outside of academia are useful only in what they have applied personally through experience.

If we know only ideas and words, we have learned nothing that can assist. These words and ideas can become training wheels to create real live experience but let us take down these deities and high men and women that sit on their thrones of intellectualism - let us replace what is intellectual with experience. We can learn from books - we can study and become knowledgeable about what we do. But only through experience and willingness to create experience can this knowledge be of any use to us in the real world.

Politicians that have never lived a day on the streets saying they know how a person on the street feels and making policies to govern and dictate their lives is just one example. In the famous symbol of the eye on top of a pyramid, the only level that is blind is the eye itself because the eye can only see in one direction.

"Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation." - Celine's Second Law.

Communication can only occur between equals. Equals should lead equals until leaders are irrelevant. In a world where we need no leaders, knowledge is equal and experience is equal. Then respect can be had for things that matter and for the people that deserve it - People that teach living worlds with the living words called experience.

In Love,

Monti