Intimidated by intellect?

Join the crowd! But this is not exactly a question for my Inquiries About Awakening blog (www.inquiriesawakening.blogspot.com).
That's ironic as a question having to do with intellect would seem appropriate for deep inquiry. But in this case it's just an observation.
The observation is that as some of my deeper inquiries and even realizations about the heart are shared with others, people are popping all sorts of resistance. Even describing my own experience with body sensations, openness to heart and "interconnectedness with all" was met with the words "intellectualized verbalization" in an online exchange (Xeno). A few more examples: people argue ("this table is real!" - discussion group), show disdain ("the heart is overrated" - Jac o'Keefe), get sarcastic ("why do you care?" - John Bernie), change the subject ("good question, but blablabla - Jeff Foster), and perhaps the most common response - no response.
So deep explorations and inquiries, shared to the best of one's...my own anyway...ability might seem to be more intimidating that stimulating. Why else all the resistance? The old mantras come into play consistently and don't need to be exemplified:

• "You're thinking too much."
• "Those are all just concepts."
• "Stop!"
• "Let it go."
• "Be silent."
• "Be in the moment."
• "Don't ask so many questions," hearkens back to childhood.
• And one of my favorite: "Don't talk about it!"

Spoken by those who have not inquired fully into themselves or the nature of things, or who still operate from a place of fear, suffering, desire, ambition, etc, it might well be said that they are intimidated. Or overwhelmed, or just unwilling to do the work it takes to see whether there is anything useful in pushing the mind for further mental development in spiritual awareness. Or, and the one that I can respect they are content and have reached their capacity, and have relinquished any desire to go deeper or further. In that case, should they be doing their very best, I congratulate and support their every step.
So what's next? Lol as my teacher just said: "nothing is next, everything is here in the present moment!"
Sorry dear teacher. As you have invited me to do so, I must question that and take the statement further. Ok, so what seems to be, what might be said to appear to be, the event arising out of this moment  of thinking that people get so easily intimidated by what they consider to be intellectual? (Yes, I used the word "thinking" - just give me that one, please!)
"Next" actually goes back to the example of the Lotus Sutra said to be one of Buddha's finest transmissions, perhaps even his final, which is so deep that it was kept away from public eyes for 500 years by protective monks.
Now, with my simple questions and sharings that to me are an inspiring arising from what I consider to be my natural process of deepening on the spiritual journey, a flavor of why these monks would so closely guard a spiritual teaching is being revealed.