“The wise man has eyes in his head; but the fool walks in darkness.” Solomon

Wise men are able to see both with their eyes and their mind’s eye.  Your mind’s eye, if you know what I refer to is a spark of wisdom, a bolt of lightning from within.

Things I have heard that describe the mind’s eye to are comparable to flashbacks that people with PTSD experience, photographic memory, which is the idea of a mind that can remember images, dreams, and being able to see a working invention in your mind before it has been built.

It is as if a wise man’s mind is double monitor computer screens, one monitor is looking inside his head, and one monitor looks outside his head.  Images and video are even capable of being transmitted.  It is even conceivable that one could be see only internally, and never externally.  Kabbalah is sometimes referred to as receiving, but information can also be transmitting though windows in the sky as well.

I just read an article based on Ethics of Our Fathers, and that interpretation is true as well.  It is that a wise man is essentially able to know an invention will work without even building it.  He sees that it will work.  Testing is usually not needed for one who knows the answer.  Additionally, artificial testing won’t help him arrive at the answer.  He either knows it or he doesn’t.  He knows the answer because he is able to derive it from what he knows.

Why then is it important not be, “Wise in your own eyes.”  My best attempt at answering this is that using one’s mind’s eye burns up nutrients too fast.  And, that while it is important to burn up nutrients, it is also important not to consume your mind zealously by causing it to fire bolts of lightning inside your head nonstop, all day long.  However, many perspectives can be taken on the wisdom of Solomon, but in my opinion that is what made him noted for wisdom.

As for fools walking in darkness, walking in darkness is a good way to get mugged.  Fools also walk in spiritual darkness, like an experimenter performing an experiment, and pretending like he doesn’t know the answer or an experimenter who performs an experiment thinking that he will find an answer in logic.  Darkness is a time to be at home.  As a friend of mine said about northern New Jersey, an area where many people are poor, many years ago, ~ "It is safe to drive anywhere during the day, but not at night."  Darkness is a time to be seated or to be reclined.  Reminds me of a time I tripped over a lawn chair in our yard.