Intelligence And The Strength Of One's Will, Are they related? Options

What do you think?

Personally, I'm not sure. But in my experience there isn't any reason to suspect that a more intelligent person is more capable of doing Magick. I'd say Magick comes from the spiritual essence of a person, and that intelligence and Will are not related.

Current trends in psychology show that high intelligence in human beings increases the risk of depression. Logically so, because constantly rationalizing the world around you eventually makes the whole picture look very cynical, especially when you pick the world apart to its mechanical constituents. Eventually, being depressed about the world gives one a sense of "hopelessness" associated with prolonged cynicism, therefore causing the intelligent human to "lose the will" to move forward.

"What's the point?" syndrome.

Example of a comical archetype: Marvin, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Marvin: Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge

Therefore, I actually postulate the opposite is true: Higher intelligence runs the risk of lowering magick's effectiveness.

What COULD help, however, is developing "Magickal Thinking" as a cognitive skill.... a post for another time. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)