The average person, at least in first-world countries or most of our so-called civilized societies, is reasonably intelligent—the average person is literate, knows basic arithmetic, science and/or other structured forms of communication and experience like music and art, sports and other disciplines. But the average person doesn't often go to a space inside where they are not focusing on outside perception, and instead are contemplating or even experiencing more abstract states of being where questions of essence and meaning are often pondered.
The average Western individual is probably more focused on their relationship to their external "reality"—expressed in quotes because it is ultimately subjective—than their relationship to the external and the internal, with the internal rarely being at least as important as the external. Necessarily there is an important relationship with the purely subjective, that is, a person's nonphysical component, their thoughts and emotions, but usually the relationship with the inner is much more shallow. That in itself isn't a prerequisite for spiritual enlightenment anyway, as a person can more or less understand the attraction principle intuitively from birth (this is how I think the "relatively simplistic average person" can often achieve relatively extraordinary things) and yet it is natural to dwell in both the inner and outer planes frequently and dynamically, with the non-physical being pretty predominant, more than we realize perhaps: on average we sleep a third of our lives away and spend the other two thirds in a state of dreamlike, half-conscious awareness anyway.
Arguably, our dream state is also closer to our true nature than the often zombie-like and spiritually immature state that the average person dwells in. I only say spiritually immature just to use words that get the point across quickly too; my own understanding of what that is has only very recently begun to really come into focus. It means taking full responsibility for one's energy frequency at all times. This is why God says through the Bible, "think ye only pure thoughts, and righteous. Speak and fear no evil." She means to say that frequency control , the attraction principle, the golden rule, is the basic, core principle. It's not so much about balance, karma or even "ask and you shall receive" as much as "you get what you give"—you truly get what you give because the frequency you emit is always matched with your external circumstances.
It all comes down to creativity.
As far as I know, the mystery has been solved. The main tool that humanity has used to assume dominion over life on planet Earth has been his creativity, with his intellect, his rational and deductive ability playing equally crucial roles—all nonphysical traits. Abstract devices, observation, language; without a basic underlying structure, we could not have muscled our way to the top of the food chain and split the atom. Brute force was never enough.
As far as I know, our capacity to deal in abstractions, our ability to employ rationality, deductive analysis and the scientific method, are not God-given. Maybe they are. I rather think they are all our creations. And so is everything else now on this changed planet that's not part of the biosphere itself; the millions of cities, towns and villages throughout the globe, the strips of asphalt that crisscross it, the flying machines that traverse it and the artificial satellites that orbit it. Those are products of our creative problem-solving applied to new and more interesting problems we never really had. We didn't really need the Internet, microwave ovens and art classes; as far as I know, we already had effective means of mass communication and we could cook and reheat our food without major complications. It's arguable that means of rapid mass transport were necessary due to our desire and/or need to transport ourselves and our creations about our physical environment more quickly and effectively, but were fashion magazines and financial instruments necessary too? Why do we need to express and experience purely subjective things so much if we don't acknowledge it? Could it be that the essence of life, its underlying layer, its more basic principle, is that it is abstract, subjective and non-physical by nature?
We love to think of a Deity (predominantly male, at least in the more recent civilizations) who judges and even punishes humanity for complying with or disobeying some subjective set of rules, commandments that we consider necessary and essential but nonetheless don't acknowledge as purely subjective. And yet we observe all around us the evidence, hidden in plain sight, of this universe's creative forces conspiring to give these sentient, intelligent, creative beings the ability to do anything they please, to do their own bidding, to have dominion over the Earth as it was written: we have done whatever we pleased and we have done it all, even committing the most unspeakable atrocities.
It is clear we are creative, free and empowered to be creative and free. We claim that we will be judged for it, but judgment hasn't and won't come. We are empowered.