Role of Metacognition in wisdom and consciousness
By letting go of our desires after attachment with it could harness and leverage the success in our life.
The other spiritual way to attract desires and successes is to know about our life problems and purposes from the deepest sources; which means going deep into the real meaning and purpose of life.
Understanding the purpose of life and the universe itself will broaden our mind and enhance our cognition to the metacognitive level, which is an intrinsic characteristic of the sophisticated, smarter and universal mind.
So, being enlightened means being more prosperous and healthier rather than remaining obscure or ignorant.
It means seeing deeper into the illusions of the world and universe. Because seeing the world from a superficial level is nothing more than an illusion.
Looking and feeling it by deeper senses or sixth senses or by intuition and meditation and feeling its musical signals coming to us through vibrations from subatomic strings in the universe, that is real.
All golden treasures of spirituality, goodness, wealth, happiness and prosperity are not lying on the surface or illusion but are a little bit deeper and submerged into the intellect, wisdom, nobility, understanding, harmony, coherency and creativity; so by knowing or understanding the purpose of life, most importantly health, wealth and happiness bring you all happiness, wealth and good health.
Gradually with our own speed and understanding, we will know about the meaning and purpose of life and the universe.
The role of spiritual intelligence or transcendentalism is uplifting our cognitive sense to the metacognitive or superconscious level.
Maslow Psychology and Self-Transcendence: According to Maslow, self-transcendence is self-motivation and is beyond self-actualisation.
According to him, transcendence is the highest and most holistic level of human consciousness.
This includes a good relationship with other human beings, other animal species, and being friendly to other nations, civilisations, and the cosmos.
A transcendent person seeks something beyond personal benefit; they strive to advance and further science, art and spirituality for great causes, like the cause of serving others.
They expand their identification beyond the personal ego. A transcendent person experiences awareness of their human potential and they feel alive in a world that overflows with truth and beauty.
They speak the language of unity and eternity. When two transcendents meet each other, they can recognise each other even upon the first meeting and can instantly come into harmony with each other and mutual understanding.
Transcendents are holistic and they have natural cooperation in differentiating between selfishness and unselfishness.
They can easily control and go beyond their emotions or ego and self-identity. By being transcendent, our vision gets illuminated and clearer, leading us to have a bigger brain and a bigger heart that accommodates a lot of knowledge and wisdom within us.
This accumulation and accommodation of a bigger structure of knowledge within us will lead us to discoveries and innovations.
Walsh and Vanshan, in their research on spirituality, claim that transcendents have capabilities of expansion of our consciousness by application of art preserved in the core of societies.
These qualities in transcendentalists could purify human-distorted emotions and scattered desires into a stable personality.
There are three different elements of transcendentalism that encompass the world’s greatest religious traditions and help individuals purify from emotional and attentional instabilities.
Ethics: Ethics or positive attitude and optimism in life protect and save us from greed and anger, and cultivate kindness, compassion and calmness in our life.
Attentional training: By training our minds to retain and sustain our brain’s memory system to advance our perceptions by broader reading, observations and experimentations and by learning various skills and arts by hit and trial methods would improve our focus and attention systems in our brains.
This would ultimately regulate our emotions, moods and behaviours and make us more motivated, ambitious, passionate and mission-oriented individual in societies.
So, overcoming this wandering state of mind by improving our focus could make us more productive and conscious.
Emotional transformations: We should first be aware of any kind of destructive emotions like fear, anger and prejudice in our heart, mind and soul.
Then, we should take special measures to stabilise our minds toward advancement and education of our emotions with techniques of focus, attention and uplifting of our memory system by observations, experimentation and reading techniques to regulate our emotions.
We should also channel positive attitudes by reading good psychology books to cultivate positivity in our system and eliminate any inherited negative flood of emotions in our daily lives through media; including TV, newspapers, and other negativity around society.
We should cultivate and harness equanimity, which means keep up our self-calm and focus during fear, storm and unfavorable conditions.
But we should learn how to be creative and to stay calm in unfavourable situations in our life.
The person harbouring the mind of a transcendent should be able to control his self-oriented personality to an allocentric personality, becoming a person with greater communal and societal interests at heart.
A transcendent person believes that keeping attention on the present moment will open our inner eye.
Due to fully practising spiritual intelligence, transcendental minds could attain final unity in the path of human evolution for consciousness.
If we keep waking up our consciousness while ageing we could develop our personality through applying skills of spiritual intelligence.
With spiritual intelligence, we feel unity and oneness with others. According to Plotinus, “The full reality of self is only possible by mystical awakening and awareness.
”— To be continued. —The writer is contributing columnist, based in London.
