Intellectual centre
Head brain — thought and discrimination
The intellectual centre is the head brain in the three-centres framing: its characteristic work is discursive thought, comparison, and deliberate association. We place its attention point in the crown-to-brow band as an editorial body projection of the head seat; the cited texts do not supply this exact normalized coordinate.
Point 1 of 3 in Gurdjieffian Enneagram — Three Centres
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (primary_canonical)
Gurdjieff's primary text; its recurring account of three-brained beings supplies the canonical three-brain frame, although it does not provide this normalized body diagram.
P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (secondary)
A secondary record of Gurdjieff's lectures, including the intellectual, emotional, and moving centres, their differing speeds, and their practical observation.
Kathleen Riordan Speeth, The Gurdjieff Work (scholarly_modern)
Modern scholarly and practice-oriented synthesis of Fourth Way exercises, self-observation, and the functional centres.