The mind that is linked with our peripheral vision belongs to our nonverbal intelligence. This is an intelligence relatively distinct from what we understand as ourselves or self. This sense often accomplishes or contributes to the accomplishment of feats that would appear extremely unlikely or impossible.

Our peripheral visual capacities are more sensitive to light and movement than our foveal (central) vision. For this reason one may occasionally detect stars in the night sky which cannot ordinarily be located with the foveal sense.

And what I want to suggest is that our intelligence has some resemblance to this schema, and that the intelligence of the nonverbal aspect of our minds is both different and extremely sensitive in ways that we do not ordinarily have conscious access to.

Effectively: there are an array of cognitive senses which are peripheral, and are inordinately sensitive to patterns, likeness, reflections, recursions, and other identifiable targets. Ordinarily these are not associated with ourselves.

When they operate, we may feel we were ‘given’ an idea or even ‘implanted’ with an insight. We may feel this way, but this is the same feeling we might have if the nonlanguaging aspects of our mind were the source. We are -carrying- other intelligences. As unacknowledged aspects of our own common cognition…