INTENTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Mystery and Plan

The ambivalent experience of transformation burdens even the gradual unfolding of life's mysteries. Experiences of good and evil implicate the unfolding of the mystery and the plan of nature. Natural ambivalence is based in evolutionary dynamics (electrical polarity) something that must be dealt with on a continuing basis for it enters every aspect of human relationships. But when relationships are motivated in love, in mutual interest, they will find accommodation. The finding of accommodation is faith's mandate, the symbiotic option of intentional intelligence. Faith reveals the requirements of love, the point of conscience. The dialogue of Faith and Reason unveils over time the mystery and reveals the plan by which intentional intelligence chooses accommodation.
    Religious convictions can be and are used ambiguously for opposite outcomes, that is, to motivate actions with destructive or constructive outcomes. Evil like good is an outcome of human thinking and doing. One's religious convictions do seemingly generate with equal ease acts of terror or altruism. Terrorism and altruism are construed by the doers as religiously motivated and done in God's name. This is a lesson of 9/11.
    Faith-doubts are raised by the experience of 9/11, for how in God's name can people of good faith, religious people, intentionally inflict hurt and terror on God's behalf? What kind of God asks for that?
    In the face of unexplainable events people often, dismissively and with overtones of evasion, observe that "God has a plan for everything". On its face this belief (evasion?) hardly washes with the horror of willful terrorism for it cannot credibly be called an act of God. Corporate willfulness, religious and secular, sometimes functions as an overwhelming force also for evil; its energy is a tide that overpowers minds and behavior, whether toward good or evil. Institutional America isn't free of guilt for it is massively insensitive to global overreach and ecological spoiling.
    Where is God? Where is God's Plan? A credible answer may be in the presence of divinity found in nature's very transformative dynamics. The plan is in us. In the Faith/Reason dialogue, motivated in mutual love, the insight of coming to knowledge of the difference between good and evil is a process of intentional intelligence opting the wellbeing of others as well as one's own. Fidelity and rationality are equally compelling even as infidelity and irrationality are mutually abhorrent. The unending war being waged in consciousness is to understand the difference between altruism and violence. Blind faith and the neglect of reason are both ineffective and counter-intuitional, not credibly attributed to God.
    Intelligent design, the plan intending outcomes of good, is experienced in the authentic reiterations of communication, consciousness and conscience. The process of intentional intelligence produces outcomes of good when communication is trustful, when consciousness is rightly informed and when love for one another is motivated in conscience (knowledge of the difference between good and evil). The failure of any one of these can misinform judgment and lead to damaging outcomes. Terror, the inflicting of fear and hurt on others, frustrates intentional symbiosis and is the evil-doing of misguided intelligence.
    The Plan calls for us humans, as a people of intelligence, to be a people of communication-faith, consciousness-hope and conscience-love. This symbiotic imperative is a fundamental mandate of religious authenticity. Terror is not a justifiable choice; it accomplishes only hurt and destruction. Fidelity and rationality require the rejection of evil for it originates in ignorance (fixation), arrogance (egoism) and obsession (greed), the antitheses of faith, hope and love. The design pattern of intentional intelligence (trimorphic resonance) is the mystery; the pattern is the plan [see Sylvester L. Steffen, Quantum Religion, pp. 20-24, www.authorhouse.com] The Failure of The Plan is a human failure of trust, hope and love, a personal/social failure. Correctives to personal/cultural misinformation are most reliably found in the intelligent consensus of the public, even if slowly.