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Meet Kurt One In A Million Life-Purpose: To personify intuitive creativity and change more than minds through work contributions. Evokateur changes futures. Evokateur /Eccentrik/ Evokateur Profile boss: Evokateur

spaÖtial: 'spA-sh&l: adj (Latin spatium space) Relating to, occupying, or having the character of space. Space is Kurt's world. Coincidentally, he works on software programming for satellites, but his gift is a unique ability to visualize spatially. He is one of the most intelligent people in the world, nearly off-the-scale on tools used to measure IQ. For example, he correctly answered 28 of the 36 questions on the Hoeflin Power Test. According to experts, the average Doctor, Engineer, MBA or CEO would barely make 2 on this test, the average professional mathematician, physics PhD from MIT or Phi Beta Kappa would average around 9 or 10, and the average science Nobel Prize winner would barely get 50% (18 or 19). His IQ is between .9997 and .9998 of the whole, making him a genuine one in a million.

But smart doesn't necessarily mean happy.

Kurt was an only child, born in Milwaukee but growing up in the 5 boroughs of New York. His father was Austrian, and his battlefield and concentration camp experiences in World War II left him keenly aware of the dark side of human nature. His parents divorced when he was 3, and he was sent to live with his grandmother in New York for a few weeks. She died leaving him alone in a crib. A relative found him asleep in the crib with the grandmother's white cat. Nobody knows how long he was left alone.

"I went through regression therapy, and all I could remember was this white ball of fur," he said.

His mother remarried, and his family frequently moved. "I didn't have a lot of friends as a result, so I kept to myself. We moved to Riverdale when I was 6 and I became friends with a lot of egghead, nerdy types. I was always more comfortable with the outcasts than the mainstream, because they were different."

Kurt discovered a deep interest in electronics through his stepfather, who had a PhD in electrical engineering. He built an AM radio when he was 7 and began bringing home broken television sets when he was 8, removing the parts and storing them. "One day, I discovered some parts' catalogs under my stepdad's workbench, and I was able to link the parts I had with their function." A year and a half later, Kurt began building things with the parts, including an FM radio. At the same time, he began to have problems with boredom at school.

"The school wanted my mother to do something about it. I told her I'd read all the books and knew what was going to happen, that I was bored, and that I wanted to do things with electronics." It got so bad in the winter of 1970 that the school recommended a correctional school or expulsion. With no other choice, Kurt was sent to Switzerland to live with his father, who had remarried and relocated back to Europe. Public school in a foreign country challenged Kurt, who had to learn to read and speak the language in order to survive. Within 6 months, he was getting a B average and was transferred to a trade school where he excelled at making drawings of gears and other items. By now, he was getting A's regularly, so he was transferred to a High School for highly intellectual teenagers, where he also got straight A's. Another transfer put him in the toughest program in the country and by age 16, he was doing vastly difficult equations in his head. His old nemesis set in. He was bored.

"I knew that I could pass pretty much anything they threw at me. " Fed up with school, Kurt ran away from home and hitch-hiked across Europe, taking odd jobs for room and board and moving on. Somehow, he found himself in East Germany and wound up in jail. 3 weeks later, he was deported and, at age 18, found himself on a plane headed for New York and his mother.

His workplace experiences have been similar to school, overcoming challenges and moving on due to boredom. Job after job. Promotion after promotion. He's content, for now, with creating complex software for controlling satellite installation.

But Kurt is a stellar example of how intelligence does not necessarily mean happiness.

"I would describe my life up to age 10 as blissful ignorance. The next 13 years were the 'what the heck's going on' years. I had all this book knowledge with no experience. Nothing made sense, and I've been on a major input road for a long, long time."

Carlos Casteneda. Wicca. Humanism. Masons. Mensa. Triple-9. Prometheus. Metaphysics. And every kind of test imaginable. Kurt found the Ansir test nearly 2 years ago, and along with it, a new perspective on himSelf.

"The thing that first struck me was it was very easy to answer wrong. It's only as accurate as your self-perception. I found I own a lot of masks, and Ansir helped me get rid of them. I started out Sage on everything but discover that was a defensive screen for dealing with difficulties. Underneath it, there was this great bubbling joy. It helped me realize things about myself that nobody else could and provided tools I could use. "

"I'm feeling better than I have in years. I'm into this flow: when I need something, it shows up. I get exactly what I need to keep going. I've always had the sense that everything was difficult. Now, it's like everything seems to be jelling and settling into place, not that I understand it, but everything feels right. I still have questions that remain unanswered, but I have faith that they will be answered."

That sounds to us like the words of a man who is not only at home in space, but now at home with himSelf.

Postscript: Try your skill at the Hoeflin Power Test.

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