Savant Or Genius (Savvy Or Genie)
A savant is “a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist.”
Or “a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.”
Synonyms include “intellectual, scholar, sage, philosopher, thinker, wise/learned person; guru, master, pundit,” etc.
Savant comes from sapere, “to be wise,” and from savoir, “to know.”
This is entirely different from “savant syndrome,” a variety of genius.
A genus is a secondary personality, indicating possession, as he “was a teacher OF genius.”
Each individual or thing HAS a genius, which the Greeks called a “personal daemon.”
Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) called genius “a nutritional disorder.”
Italian criminologist and physician Cesare Lombroso wrote …
“If Richelieu had not on one single occasion been caught in an epileptic fit, who could ever have guessed it? If it had not been for the recent works of Berti and Mayor, who would have believed that Cavour twice attempted to kill himself? If Taine had not been one of those rare writers who understand what help psychiatry can give in the study of history, he would never have been able to surprise those characteristics which make Napoleon’s moral insanity manifest to all. Carlyle’s wife wrote the narration of her tortures; few wives do as much, and, to tell the truth, few husbands are anxious to publish such narratives. Many persons still regard as an angelic being the celebrated painter Aiwosowski, who succoured hundreds of poor persons and left his own wife and children to die of hunger.”
Some of the signs of genius, according to Dr. Lombroso, are …
1) short stature
2) rickets
3) pallor
4) emaciation
5) cretin-like physiognomy
6) lesions of the head and brain
7) stammering
8) left-handedness
9) sterility
10) unlikeness to parents
11) precocity
12) delayed development
13) rejection of the ideas of others (mesoneism)
14) vagabondage
15) unconsciousness and instinctiveness
16) somnambulism
17) genius in inspiration
18) contrast, intermittence, double personality
19) stupidity
20) exaggerated sensibility (hyperasthesia)
21) exhaustion and excessive concentration of sensibility (parasthesia)
22) forgetfulness (amnesia)
23) originality (divining facts before knowing them)
24) fondness for special words
25) chorea and epilepsy
26) melancholy
27) delusions of grandeur (megalomania)
28) folie du doute (a variety of melancholia)
29) alcoholism (and drug addiction)
30) hallucinations
31) moral insanity
32) longevity (up to a certain point)
Hundreds of cases of “genius” are thoroughly discussed by Dr. Lombroso.
Chapters of his book (The Man of Genius) include …
Genius and Degeneration
Latent Forms of Neurosis and Insanity in Genius
Genius and Insanity
Meteorological Influences on Genius
Climatic Influences on Genius
The Influence of Disease on Genius
Insane Genius in Literature
Art in the Insane
Literary and Artistic Mattoids
Political and Religious Lunatics and Mattoids
Characteristics of Insane Men of Genius
Analogy of Sane to Insane Genius
The Epileptoid Nature of Genius
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May 3, 2016 @ 12:58 am Atom
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May 13, 2016 @ 8:13 am mark
Atom, do you know Dr. Richard Alan Miller? He’s been referred to as a savant.
http://aetherforce.com/a-holographic-concept-of-reality-by-dr-richard-alan-miller/
May 15, 2016 @ 5:01 pm Atom
The surest way to separate the geniuses from the savants is by Body Dowsing, so I’d just be speculating without a full-on Body Language Analysis.
Also, if one category is BLACK and the other is WHITE, most “smart” people exist in the GRAY zone.
Whatever category he’s in, thanks for turning me on to Richard Alan Miller.
I’ll be listening to some of his interviews on YouTube.