Intuition is the apparent ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason.[1] “The word ‘intuition’ comes from the Latin word 'intueri', which is often roughly translated as meaning ‘to look inside’ or ‘to contemplate’."[2] Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify. For this reason, it has been the subject of study in psychology, as well as a topic of interest in the supernatural. The "right brain" is popularly associated with intuitive processes such as aesthetic abilities.[3][4][5] Some scientists have contended that intuition is associated with innovation in scientific discovery. -Wikipedia
How do you explain intuition? I guess Wikipedia just explained it. But really, how do you explain it? Certain people have good intuition, certain people have bad intuition, which actually means they have no intuition. Is it guessing? Is it magic? Is it voodoo? Maybe it's being able to sew together the seems of seemingly unrelated entities that most of us can't typically piece together. Maybe it's metaphysical. Maybe it's science. Isn't it possible that intuition could be totally a physical and chemical thing? Science doesn't have answers for everything yet. It could be that intuition is signaled my pheromones that ignite little ideas in our subconscious that make it possible for certain brains to connect non linear points on the maps of our lives. It's just a theory, but I always will believe in things that may be. I refuse to live my life under the belief that there might not be answers we just haven't found yet. And I really don't need proof of anything. There needs not be science for things to be real. Sometimes science doesn't apply. And for intuition, this may be one of those times.
So let's assume that intuition exists. By the same non scientific properties that don't exist to prove it, couldn't that mean that it's not always accurate? Couldn't it be that some sort of chaos lies in wait for all things? Like one event could trigger another, so that what's forseen may not be the actual outcome? But perhaps it's one of several likely outcomes? Maybe people with the "gift" see some of the outcomes but can't figure out which ones will be and which ones won't. It's not an exact science because it's not a science at all. That's possible, right? Definitely.
Or Maybe it's more of a Divine Gift. Maybe God made it so that one in every 10,000 souls is one that can see things in advance. Maybe He needs people on Earth that can do this. Maybe He has a quota. Maybe He needed these people to help regulate the rest of us. Like, He needs each of them to help him with something important at some point. Maybe they'll never get that one important assignment, but they are there, in place for God if He needs them. Or maybe these gifted souls are more like crossing guards we had as kids, only now in life, and they're always around, always making sure we stay between the white lines, crossing from here to there. And maybe these gifted souls are the ones closest to him, like they are messengers. Gifted people don't typically tend to understand it all do they? They might just see what they see and don't know why. This could be why this is all more scary to them than the people around them.
Or maybe being a gifted person is more like having a higher sense of logic. Maybe these people are just smarter than most of us. And I'm not talking about math or science or physics. But these gifted souls are smart enough to pick up on a world full of signs, signs that they may not understand or even be able to point out to the rest of us. And their gift is able to take all the signs they have seen, absorb them, put them into context and gain a certain knowledge or perspective about something that most of us haven't been able to piece together at all. Their logic lets them see the signs.
Maybe it's nothing more than something like a feeling, or an emotion. And those feelings or emotions are driven through their subconscious, pinging off of non-related happenings, bumping and spinning until they actually arrive at something in the consciousness that actually makes sense. They say that intuitiveness is more likely for the creative minds, so this mind can't help but take this one idea and send it through a stream of thought processes, uncontrolled by their efforts or intentions, and a hypothesis about a possible outcome is deposited into the front of the brain, and then they can focus on it. And this is what tells them to rationally believe that it's a sign, or a vision.
So, magic, voodoo, science, Divine Gift, logic...take your pick. But I tend to believe that it's all of the above. I want to believe that it's all of the above. Here's what I believe: God needed agents on earth to send things to...visions, ideas, knowledge. The answers to why He needed them aren't important. But He needed them, and so He created some souls that were intuitive enough to pickup on the signs that were already there for all of us. Those souls knew where to find answers to questions they didn't even know they had. They were smart enough to see the visions in their minds, and smart enough to hear the notes of mystery in their minds and creative enough to piece it all together so that somewhere, somehow, some sense was made of it in in their minds. Soothsayers? No. Gifted people? Yes. Blessed with the gifts to be able to understand what most of us cannot. To be able to see when most of us think its dark. To smell the unripened fruit of an enigma that hasn't even become a mystery yet.
Why wouldn't gifted people exist? Did Albert Einstein exist? Did Alexander Graham Bell exist? Didn't Al Gore invent the internet? Have you ever seen a Picasso? Didn't Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Have you ever had a preacher at your church really seem like he or she really "gets it"? Or a teacher that could totally make you learn, in spite of yourself? These people exist. They will all claim that they were "called" to their work. They were drawn to it. They couldn't avoid their life's work. Mickey Mantle was as self destructive as any baseball player in history, yet he couldn't prevent himself from becoming one of the best all around baseball players in history. The point is, why wouldn't gifted people exist? How could they not? How could we expect that there aren't certain people that just excel in these areas? Do I believe in those circus tent people who claim to see the future, or talk to the dead? Not really. I believe they were close to a gifted person at one time, and thought they could capitalize on that feeling of being closer to a Higher Power. Tarot cards? seems like guessing to me, but some people need to use them to help their spirits rise, to help them hope. I'm not asking sooth sayers to go away, some people need them.
From my experience on earth, Gifted People do exist. I don't know how it works. But I enjoy living in world where people like that could exist. I can't accept that this world is one that doesn't have special things or special people. If it was a world without miracles, how many of us would have died at birth or never been born at all? I must believe this world is a world where anything can happen. I don't want to find out that things are always as they seem. I can't accept a world where everything makes sense. I don't need to know "why" on everything but I will always ask. I accept that there are things and ideas and people that are here for a certain purpose. Sometimes the chaos factor may keep certain people or ideas from fulfilling their specific destinies, but they still have purpose don't they? They have to. I believe in Gifted People. Living the life I have lived and having seen the things I've seen and having thought the thoughts I have, I refuse to live in a world where miracles don't happen and where Gifted People don't exist. It's just not possible for me.
How do you explain intuition? I guess Wikipedia just explained it. But really, how do you explain it? Certain people have good intuition, certain people have bad intuition, which actually means they have no intuition. Is it guessing? Is it magic? Is it voodoo? Maybe it's being able to sew together the seems of seemingly unrelated entities that most of us can't typically piece together. Maybe it's metaphysical. Maybe it's science. Isn't it possible that intuition could be totally a physical and chemical thing? Science doesn't have answers for everything yet. It could be that intuition is signaled my pheromones that ignite little ideas in our subconscious that make it possible for certain brains to connect non linear points on the maps of our lives. It's just a theory, but I always will believe in things that may be. I refuse to live my life under the belief that there might not be answers we just haven't found yet. And I really don't need proof of anything. There needs not be science for things to be real. Sometimes science doesn't apply. And for intuition, this may be one of those times.
So let's assume that intuition exists. By the same non scientific properties that don't exist to prove it, couldn't that mean that it's not always accurate? Couldn't it be that some sort of chaos lies in wait for all things? Like one event could trigger another, so that what's forseen may not be the actual outcome? But perhaps it's one of several likely outcomes? Maybe people with the "gift" see some of the outcomes but can't figure out which ones will be and which ones won't. It's not an exact science because it's not a science at all. That's possible, right? Definitely.
Or Maybe it's more of a Divine Gift. Maybe God made it so that one in every 10,000 souls is one that can see things in advance. Maybe He needs people on Earth that can do this. Maybe He has a quota. Maybe He needed these people to help regulate the rest of us. Like, He needs each of them to help him with something important at some point. Maybe they'll never get that one important assignment, but they are there, in place for God if He needs them. Or maybe these gifted souls are more like crossing guards we had as kids, only now in life, and they're always around, always making sure we stay between the white lines, crossing from here to there. And maybe these gifted souls are the ones closest to him, like they are messengers. Gifted people don't typically tend to understand it all do they? They might just see what they see and don't know why. This could be why this is all more scary to them than the people around them.
Or maybe being a gifted person is more like having a higher sense of logic. Maybe these people are just smarter than most of us. And I'm not talking about math or science or physics. But these gifted souls are smart enough to pick up on a world full of signs, signs that they may not understand or even be able to point out to the rest of us. And their gift is able to take all the signs they have seen, absorb them, put them into context and gain a certain knowledge or perspective about something that most of us haven't been able to piece together at all. Their logic lets them see the signs.
Maybe it's nothing more than something like a feeling, or an emotion. And those feelings or emotions are driven through their subconscious, pinging off of non-related happenings, bumping and spinning until they actually arrive at something in the consciousness that actually makes sense. They say that intuitiveness is more likely for the creative minds, so this mind can't help but take this one idea and send it through a stream of thought processes, uncontrolled by their efforts or intentions, and a hypothesis about a possible outcome is deposited into the front of the brain, and then they can focus on it. And this is what tells them to rationally believe that it's a sign, or a vision.
So, magic, voodoo, science, Divine Gift, logic...take your pick. But I tend to believe that it's all of the above. I want to believe that it's all of the above. Here's what I believe: God needed agents on earth to send things to...visions, ideas, knowledge. The answers to why He needed them aren't important. But He needed them, and so He created some souls that were intuitive enough to pickup on the signs that were already there for all of us. Those souls knew where to find answers to questions they didn't even know they had. They were smart enough to see the visions in their minds, and smart enough to hear the notes of mystery in their minds and creative enough to piece it all together so that somewhere, somehow, some sense was made of it in in their minds. Soothsayers? No. Gifted people? Yes. Blessed with the gifts to be able to understand what most of us cannot. To be able to see when most of us think its dark. To smell the unripened fruit of an enigma that hasn't even become a mystery yet.
Why wouldn't gifted people exist? Did Albert Einstein exist? Did Alexander Graham Bell exist? Didn't Al Gore invent the internet? Have you ever seen a Picasso? Didn't Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Have you ever had a preacher at your church really seem like he or she really "gets it"? Or a teacher that could totally make you learn, in spite of yourself? These people exist. They will all claim that they were "called" to their work. They were drawn to it. They couldn't avoid their life's work. Mickey Mantle was as self destructive as any baseball player in history, yet he couldn't prevent himself from becoming one of the best all around baseball players in history. The point is, why wouldn't gifted people exist? How could they not? How could we expect that there aren't certain people that just excel in these areas? Do I believe in those circus tent people who claim to see the future, or talk to the dead? Not really. I believe they were close to a gifted person at one time, and thought they could capitalize on that feeling of being closer to a Higher Power. Tarot cards? seems like guessing to me, but some people need to use them to help their spirits rise, to help them hope. I'm not asking sooth sayers to go away, some people need them.
From my experience on earth, Gifted People do exist. I don't know how it works. But I enjoy living in world where people like that could exist. I can't accept that this world is one that doesn't have special things or special people. If it was a world without miracles, how many of us would have died at birth or never been born at all? I must believe this world is a world where anything can happen. I don't want to find out that things are always as they seem. I can't accept a world where everything makes sense. I don't need to know "why" on everything but I will always ask. I accept that there are things and ideas and people that are here for a certain purpose. Sometimes the chaos factor may keep certain people or ideas from fulfilling their specific destinies, but they still have purpose don't they? They have to. I believe in Gifted People. Living the life I have lived and having seen the things I've seen and having thought the thoughts I have, I refuse to live in a world where miracles don't happen and where Gifted People don't exist. It's just not possible for me.
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