Anyone who can remain in high good humor as a pet belief is challenged or unexpectedly exploded can thrive in this mental maelstrom. After all, turning raw information into wisdom has always been the grand human necessity. All that has changed is the suddenly abundant quantity and quality of the available raw material. Undigested information is obviously not wisdom, love, understanding, revelation, realization, or the power to transform oneself or the world. But neither is any other food of much use until the human body converts it into the energy to act, feel, think and plan.
Information is the basic fuel of all mental development.
Without a nourishing diet of tasty information, the intellectual processes have nothing to chew on, digest, assimilate and convert to higher forms of energy and consciousness. Even the most exalted states of consciousness, of wordless direct communion with sublime spiritual levels, have their roots below, in the preparatory stages of the discerning mind. There are many these days that fancy they can skip right over the difficulties of self-development in mental realms. It is a common fallacy of those who wish to be more spiritual to imagine it is possible to live from the heart without bothering to refine intellectual skills. The mindless heart and the heartless mind are both equally useless to the soul.