Oltea Goia-Demian
Reading Danah Zohar´s and Ian Marshall´s book Spiritual Intelligence I had a great A-ah. And an equally great A-ha too. I had already known all along that the IQ, EQ and the other multiple intelligences I had read about were not quite enough. While enjoying (and suffering from) an actually high IQ, I felt that I was also good at something being connected rather with the soul but still different of the Emotional Quotient EQ. The EQ, I knew it without having ever measured it, was clearly not one of my strengths.
I knew also that the other intelligences - the musical, the social, the visual-spatial and all the rest - were not describing that special thing that I knew I had some kind of mastery upon. It was however at work in my ability (which now I know it´s to be subscribed to the Spiritual Intelligence)...
I must have driven crazy my parents as I was a child. I am almost 47 by now and I still want to know the WHY and HOW of everything. Not like Why and How did Anna move away, but like
- Why, if we touch a point on the left side of our body, we can tell exactly what is its symmetrical counterpart on the right side?
- Why in both Japanese and Latin, Monday is the day of Moon, Tuesday is the day of Mars and so on? They are 1:1 the same! Not only in Latin, actually. (I think I´ve read once the Japanese have their weekdays from the (Middle-East) Chaldeans. Then the gap is smaller. But still, without direct contact, why is it the same?)
- How many acquaintances does it take to reach from an Aborigine near Uluru Rock to Nea´ Gheo´? Nea´ Gheo´ is a shepherd in the mountains of Romania who has never descended from his dwelling in the mountains before reaching 19 (and never went much further even after that). (... I have first asked myself this question back in my studying time in late ´80s. I´ve recently googled something and learned: this is called "degrees of separation". There are 7 acquaintances in between.)
- How deep, what is the distance we can see in a forest? How does this distance change with the density of trees per square meter, and their average thickness?
- Why are people mean with each other? (I can now explain this, but still don´t understand.)
This kind of WHY´s and HOW´s were why it was fine for me studying Physics. My heart would have liked to study Psychology, or Literature, or Arts, but Physics is great too. I´ve even graduated with a grade higher than 9, out of 10.
A Short Informal CV - Oltea Goia-Demian
- Romanian born, emigrating in Austria; un-emigrated 2006
- Basically Physics teacher and outdoor team-building trainer
- 3 yrs. Japanese culture and Chinese Studies at Vienna Univ.
- married (already 25 years relation), mother of two twin angels, university students, loving, wise and beautiful souls (and design too)
- fluent in English, German, and French, pretty fluent in Japanese, somewhat familiar with Chinese and Hungarian
- half-globetrotter (basically backpacked in 4 continents, about 45 countries)
- mountaineer (caves and even some rock climbing included, plus Everest Base Camp)
- Abstract art photos and concept fashion jewelry exhibitions in Austria, Switzerland and Romania
- Author of the 100% original (and beautiful) architecture project of our house we are living now in (and 50% construction supervisor)
- Author of two e-books: one with religion true stories and one featuring a new style of abstract art photos
- various experiences like
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Surely you´ve noticed the diversity of experiences (coming from a basic interest in human nature and general knowledge), and, maybe, the lack of prizes. I did win some during my studies, in Maths, Literature, Physics, French, Photography or Gym. But growing old I started to increasingly dislike this kind of competitions. I now have a word to say about this...
