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What’s Worth Knowing About Intuition?

The mysterious powers of the mind have puzzled humans throughout history. Positive inspiration from within has given humans worthwhile things such as the Ten Commandments through Moses, the sculpture David through Michelangelo, prophesy through Nostradamus, delivery of the French from foreign invasion through Joan of Arc, and the civil rights movement through Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. At once immensely powerful and frustratingly elusive, intuition has at some point touched the lives of nearly everyone.

Scientific study of intuition.

But what is intuition? Scientists have studied intuition at length: Carl Jung said that “Intuition [is] perception via the unconscious.” Descartes also studied intuition, as did Freud, Teillard de Chardin, and thousands of other accomplished scientists, calling it variously consciousness, the unconscious, collective consciousness, and cosmic consciousness. But intuition has not revealed its secrets to traditional scientific analysis, leaving scientific observers of intuition to study it on a case-by-case basis in the lives of their various subjects. This analytical approach has been called in modern times “grounded theory,” that is, any theory developed about intuition arises from whatever data is observed in the test subjects, so that the theory is “grounded” in the data, unlike traditional scientific analysis where the hypothesis is developed first and then tested for support through experiment.

Human experience of intuition.

Because every person has experienced an intuitive hunch, insight, or inner message at least once in their lifetime, many people have also pondered intuition without attempting to analyze it scientifically. Some have called it an inner daemon (Socrates, Rudyard Kipling); the “still, small voice” (Elijah, Gandhi); angels (Joan of Arc, Joseph Caro, William Blake); Spirit (Black Elk); inner voice (Oracle of Delphi, Harriet Tubman, Eileen Caddy); and God (Abraham, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, St. Augustine, Miki Nakayama). And most people recognize that they do sometimes receive valuable information from within, information not from the material senses and information acquired without going through the logical steps of arriving at it.

Intuition: what, where, and why.

So, what is intuition and where does it come from? Through time, human intuition has proven to be a sort of spiritual radio receiver that can tune into sixth sense information gathered from instinct, experience, the unconscious, humanity’s collective knowledge, and from non-material spirits, including the Divine. Intuition can appear as a hunch, a creative insight, or a direct communication, and it can manifest as sound, feeling, sense, movement, or as any other stimulus recognized by the five human physical senses.

In the final analysis, intuition is simply positive inner direction about what to do, in a language we each understand, that seems to have our best interests at heart. And, historically, that’s been something worth having.

About the Author

Jim Wawro, Author, Ask Your Inner Voice (http://amzn.to/ckWgWh ). While trying cases as an international lawyer, I discovered that some people have learned the secret to actively calling on inspiration whenever they need it. My books reveal the proven methods used by history’s greats and regular people alive today for actively tapping into the wisdom that resides within you. Learn more at www.ActivateIntuition.com. Please share your reactions to this article in the comment box below.

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