Intuition exercises/methods?

[Tanemon]

I feel and believe that very many of us have been taught (school, demands of worklife, etc) to forego intuition in favor of rationality, analysis, socially expected responses, "standard procedures," etc. Because of this, I feel that activities and methods that exercise other areas of our hearts & minds are valuable.

So I'm curious if other people here have adopted any particular methods or exercises for strengthening and clarifying your intuition.

I'd be willing to share my approaches, too... but first I'd like to hear from a lot of you.

Tanemon
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[Tanemon]

Did I word the question wrong? Or is this not a topic of interest to our group here at Celestine Vision? Or what??

I know we're interested in synchronicity, because James emphasizes it in his first book. Many people here talk about sync.

Any reason why intuition would be less of interest? And if it's not, I'd like to hear how you folks here are making use of it, or increasing your awareness of it...

T.
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[truth]

Hi Tanemon,

Why not share your approaches first? That way there'll be a better chance of connecting with those of either likemind or opposing views.

Cheers,
Pat

[one under god]

Dictionary:
intuition

n.

The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. See synonyms at reason.

Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.

A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

[Middle English intuicioun,
insight, from Late Latin intuitiō, intuitiōn-, a looking at,

from Latin intuitus, a look,
from past participle of intuērī, to look at, contemplate : in-, on;

see in–2 + tuērī, to look at.]

intuitional in'tu·i'tion·al adj.
intuitionally in'tu·i'tion·al·ly adv.


Thesaurus: intuition

noun

Intuitive cognition: feeling, hunch, idea, impression, suspicion.

See thoughts.
The power to discern the true nature of a person or situation
: insight, instinct, intuitiveness, penetration, sixth sense.
See thoughts.
Antonyms: intuition

n
Definition: insight
Antonyms: intellect, knowledge, reason, reasoning

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: intuition


In philosophy, the power of obtaining knowledge that is not or cannot be acquired either by inference or observation.

As such, intuition is thought of as an original, independent source of knowledge, since it is designed to account for just those kinds of knowledge that other sources do not provide.

Knowledge of some necessary truths and basic moral principles is sometimes explained in this way.

A technical sense of intuition, deriving from Immanuel Kant, refers to immediate acquaintance with individual entities; intuition (Anschauung) in this sense may be empirical (e.g., consciousness of sense-data) or pure (e.g., consciousness of space and time a priori as forms of all empirical intuitions).

As conceived by Benedict de Spinoza and Henri Bergson, intuition is taken to be concrete knowledge of the world as an interconnected whole, as contrasted with the piecemeal, "abstract" knowledge obtained by science and observation.

For more information on intuition, visit Britannica.com.

Philosophy Dictionary: intuition
Immediate awareness, either of the truth of some proposition,
or of an object of apprehension such as a concept.

Awareness of the passage of time,
or of the ineffable nature of God, have equally been claimed as intuitions.

The notion is frequently regarded with suspicion, as simply labelling the place where the philosophical understanding of the source of our knowledge stops.

In the philosophy of Kant intuition (Anschauung) has an empirical form, covering the sensible apprehension of things, and as pure intuition it is that which structures sensation into the experience of things in space and time.


Columbia Encyclopedia: intuition,
in philosophy, way of knowing directly; immediate apprehension.

The Greeks understood intuition to be the grasp of universal principles by the intelligence (nous), as distinguished from the fleeting impressions of the senses.

The distinction used by the Greeks implied the superiority of intellectual intuitions over information received by the senses.

Christian thinkers made a distinction between intuitive and discursive knowledge: God and angels know directly (intuitively) what men reach by reasoning.

René Descartes insisted that there are not two faculties of intuition (the sensual and the intellectual) but only the faculty of intellect; sensual experience, although it appears necessary in practice, is not essential to knowledge.

John Locke and others criticized Descartes's position, and under the influence of such criticism perception and the intellect came to be regarded as two separate, intuitive faculties, both necessary for genuine knowledge.

Immanuel Kant took sense perception to be the paradigm of intuition, although pure intuitions of space and time were also basic to his system. For Henri Bergson, intuition was an evolved, conscious form of instinct, an unmediated experience of the external world or of the self.

Bertrand Russell formulated the conceptual-perceptual distinction as the difference between “knowledge by description” and “knowledge by acquaintance” and Russell also postulated a faculty analogous to sensation that apprehended universals.

The logical positivists felt it was unnecessary to posit such a faculty, and explained the apprehension of nonsensory intuitive (or noninferential) knowledge as the result of psychological conditioning in the learning of a language.

To know that all events are caused is to have learned the usage of the terms event and cause. Critics have argued that such a position confuses the learning of a fact with the learning of a word.

The role intuition plays in mathematics and ethics has provoked lively debate in the history of Western philosophy. According to mathematical intuitionism, mathematical knowledge rests on mathematical concepts that are immediately clear and irreducible.

According to ethical intuitionism,
there are fundamental ethical truths that can be known directly
and do not have to be inferred.

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Occultism & Parapsychology Encyclopedia: Intuition
Human faculty by which individuals are aware of facts not accessible to normal sensory or mental processes. Some apparent intuition may be attributed to unconscious sensory or mental perception or deduction.

Other intuitive awareness suggests paranormal faculty.


Quotes About: Intuition
Quotes:

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do
before your head has figured it out." - Michael Burke

"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance;
it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." - Alexis Carrel

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein

"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.

I work with it and rely on it.
It's my partner." - Dr. Jonas Salk

"There is no instinct like that of the heart." - Lord Byron

"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds.
It will get you nowhere.
Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." - Eileen Caddy



See more famous quotes about Intuition


Wikipedia: intuition (disambiguation)
Intuition has many related meanings,
usually connected to the meaning "ability to sense or know immediately without reasoning",

including:

Intuition is the philosophical method of Henri Bergson.

In psychology, intuition may mean:
Intuition (knowledge) -
understanding without apparent effort,
quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge.

Intuition is one of the four axes of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, opposite sensing.

more info
http://www.intuition.org/

I. The Three Intuitions

IA. Eidetic Intuitions

Intuition is supposed to be a form of direct access. Yet, direct access to what? Does it access directly "intuitions" (abstract objects, akin to numbers or properties - see "Bestowed Existence")? Are intuitions the objects of the mental act of Intuition? Perhaps intuition is the mind's way of interacting directly with Platonic ideals or Phenomenological "essences"? By "directly" I mean without the intellectual mediation of a manipulated symbol system, and without the benefits of inference, observation, experience, or reason.

Kant thought that both (Euclidean) space and time are intuited. In other words, he thought that the senses interact with our (transcendental) intuitions to produce synthetic a-priori knowledge. The raw data obtained by our senses -our sensa or sensory experience - presuppose intuition. One could argue that intuition is independent of our senses. Thus, these intuitions (call them "eidetic intuitions") would not be the result of sensory data, or of calculation, or of the processing and manipulation of same. Kant's "Erscheiung" ("phenomenon", or "appearance" of an object to the senses) is actually a kind of sense-intuition later processed by the categories of substance and cause. As opposed to the phenomenon, the "nuomenon" (thing in itself) is not subject to these categories.

Descartes' "I (think therefore I) am" is an immediate and indubitable innate intuition from which his metaphysical system is derived. Descartes' work in this respect is reminiscent of Gnosticism in which the intuition of the mystery of the self leads to revelation.

Bergson described a kind of instinctual empathic intuition which penetrates objects and persons, identifies with them and, in this way, derives knowledge about the absolutes - "duration" (the essence of all living things) and "élan vital" (the creative life force). He wrote: "(Intuition is an) instinct that has become disinterested, self-conscious, capable of reflecting upon its object and of enlarging it indefinitely." Thus, to him, science (the use of symbols by our intelligence to describe reality) is the falsification of reality. Only art, based on intuition, unhindered by mediating thought, not warped by symbols - provides one with access to reality.

Spinoza's and Bergson's intuited knowledge of the world as an interconnected whole is also an "eidetic intuition".

Spinoza thought that intuitive knowledge is superior to both empirical (sense) knowledge and scientific (reasoning) knowledge. It unites the mind with the Infinite Being and reveals to it an orderly, holistic, Universe.

Friedrich Schleiermacher and Rudolf Otto discussed the religious experience of the "numinous" (God, or the spiritual power) as a kind of intuitive, pre-lingual, and immediate feeling.

Croce distinguished "concept" (representation or classification) from "intuition" (expression of the individuality of an objet d'art). Aesthetic interest is intuitive. Art, according to Croce and Collingwood, should be mainly concerned with expression (i.e., with intuition) as an end unto itself, unconcerned with other ends (e.g., expressing certain states of mind).

Eidetic intuitions are also similar to "paramartha satya" (the "ultimate truth") in the Madhyamika school of Buddhist thought. The ultimate truth cannot be expressed verbally and is beyond empirical (and illusory) phenomena. Eastern thought (e.g. Zen Buddhism) uses intuition (or experience) to study reality in a non-dualistic manner.

IB. Emergent Intuitions

A second type of intuition is the "emergent intuition". Subjectively, the intuiting person has the impression of a "shortcut" or even a "short circuiting" of his usually linear thought processes often based on trial and error. This type of intuition feels "magical", a quantum leap from premise to conclusion, the parsimonious selection of the useful and the workable from a myriad possibilities. Intuition, in other words, is rather like a dreamlike truncated thought process, the subjective equivalent of a wormhole in Cosmology. It is often preceded by periods of frustration, dead ends, failures, and blind alleys in one's work.

Artists - especially performing artists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathematicians and physicists (following a kind of Pythagorean tradition) use emergent intuitions in solving general nonlinear equations (by guessing the approximants) or partial differential equations.

Henri Poincaret insisted (in a presentation to the Psychological Society of Paris, 1901) that even simple mathematical operations require an "intuition of mathematical order" without which no creativity in mathematics is possible. He described how some of his creative work occurred to him out of the blue and without any preparation, the result of emergent intuitions. These intuitions had "the characteristics of brevity, suddenness and immediate certainty... Most striking at first is this appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long, unconscious prior work. The role of this unconscious work in mathematical invention appears to me incontestable, and traces of it would be found in other cases where it is less evident."

Subjectively, emergent intuitions are indistinguishable from insights. Yet insight is more "cognitive" and structured and concerned with objective learning and knowledge. It is a novel reaction or solution, based on already acquired responses and skills, to new stimuli and challenges. Still, a strong emotional (e.g., aesthetic) correlate usually exists in both insight and emergent intuition.

Intuition and insight are strong elements in creativity, the human response to an ever changing environment. They are shock inducers and destabilizers. Their aim is to move the organism from one established equilibrium to the next and thus better prepare it to cope with new possibilities, challenges, and experiences. Both insight and intuition are in the realm of the unconscious, the simple, and the mentally disordered. Hence the great importance of obtaining insights and integrating them in psychoanalysis - an equilibrium altering therapy.

IC. Ideal Intuitions

The third type of intuition is the "ideal intuition". These are thoughts and feelings that precede any intellectual analysis and underlie it. Moral ideals and rules may be such intuitions (see "Morality - a State of Mind?"). Mathematical and logical axioms and basic rules of inference ("necessary truths") may also turn out to be intuitions. These moral, mathematical, and logical self-evident conventions do not relate to the world. They are elements of the languages we use to describe the world (or of the codes that regulate our conduct in it). It follows that these a-priori languages and codes are nothing but the set of our embedded ideal intuitions.

As the Rationalists realized, ideal intuitions (a class of undeniable, self-evident truths and principles) can be accessed by our intellect. Rationalism is concerned with intuitions - though only with those intuitions available to reason and intellect. Sometimes, the boundary between intuition and deductive reasoning is blurred as they both yield the same results. Moreover, intuitions can be combined to yield metaphysical or philosophical systems. Descartes applied ideal intuitions (e.g., reason) to his eidetic intuitions to yield his metaphysics. Husserl, Twardowki, even Bolzano did the same in developing the philosophical school of Phenomenology.

The a-priori nature of intuitions of the first and the third kind led thinkers, such as Adolf Lasson, to associate it with Mysticism. He called it an "intellectual vision" which leads to the "essence of things". Earlier philosophers and theologians labeled the methodical application of intuitions - the "science of the ultimates". Of course, this misses the strong emotional content of mystical experiences.

Confucius talked about fulfilling and seeking one's "human nature" (or "ren") as "the Way". This nature is not the result of learning or deliberation. It is innate. It is intuitive and, in turn, produces additional, clear intuitions ("yong") as to right and wrong, productive and destructive, good and evil. The "operation of the natural law" requires that there be no rigid codex, but only constant change guided by the central and harmonious intuition of life.

II. Philosophers on Intuition - An Overview

IIA. Locke

But are intuitions really a-priori - or do they develop in response to a relatively stable reality and in interaction with it? Would we have had intuitions in a chaotic, capricious, and utterly unpredictable and disordered universe? Do intuitions emerge to counter-balance surprises?

Locke thought that intuition is a learned and cumulative response to sensation. The assumption of innate ideas is unnecessary. The mind is like a blank sheet of paper, filled gradually by experience - by the sum total of observations of external objects and of internal "reflections" (i.e., operations of the mind). Ideas (i.e., what the mind perceives in itself or in immediate objects) are triggered by the qualities of objects.

But, despite himself, Locke was also reduced to ideal (innate) intuitions. According to Locke, a colour, for instance, can be either an idea in the mind (i.e., ideal intuition) - or the quality of an object that causes this idea in the mind (i.e., that evokes the ideal intuition). Moreover, his "primary qualities" (qualities shared by all objects) come close to being eidetic intuitions.

Locke himself admits that there is no resemblance or correlation between the idea in the mind and the (secondary) qualities that provoked it. Berkeley demolished Locke's preposterous claim that there is such resemblance (or mapping) between PRIMARY qualities and the ideas that they provoke in the mind. It would seem therefore that Locke's "ideas in the mind" are in the mind irrespective and independent of the qualities that produce them. In other words, they are a-priori. Locke resorts to abstraction in order to repudiate it.

Locke himself talks about "intuitive knowledge". It is when the mind "perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other... the knowledge of our own being we have by intuition... the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it. It is on this intuition that depends all the certainty and evidence of all our knowledge... (Knowledge is the) perception of the connection of and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas."

Knowledge is intuitive intellectual perception. Even when demonstrated (and few things, mainly ideas, can be intuited and demonstrated - relations within the physical realm cannot be grasped intuitively), each step in the demonstration is observed intuitionally. Locke's "sensitive knowledge" is also a form of intuition (known as "intuitive cognition" in the Middle Ages). It is the perceived certainty that there exist finite objects outside us. The knowledge of one's existence is an intuition as well. But both these intuitions are judgmental and rely on probabilities.

IIB. Hume

Hume denied the existence of innate ideas. According to him, all ideas are based either on sense impressions or on simpler ideas. But even Hume accepted that there are propositions known by the pure intellect (as opposed to propositions dependent on sensory input). These deal with the relations between ideas and they are (logically) necessarily true. Even though reason is used in order to prove them - they are independently true all the same because they merely reveal the meaning or information implicit in the definitions of their own terms. These propositions teach us nothing about the nature of things because they are, at bottom, self referential (equivalent to Kant's "analytic propositions").

IIC. Kant

According to Kant, our senses acquaint us with the particulars of things and thus provide us with intuitions. The faculty of understanding provided us with useful taxonomies of particulars ("concepts"). Yet, concepts without intuitions were as empty and futile as intuitions without concepts. Perceptions ("phenomena") are the composite of the sensations caused by the perceived objects and the mind's reactions to such sensations ("form"). These reactions are the product of intuition.

IID. The Absolute Idealists

Schelling suggested a featureless, undifferentiated, union of opposites as the Absolute Ideal. Intellectual intuition entails such a union of opposites (subject and object) and, thus, is immersed and assimilated by the Absolute and becomes as featureless and undifferentiated as the Absolute is.

Objective Idealists claimed that we can know ultimate (spiritual) reality by intuition (or thought) independent of the senses (the mystical argument). The mediation of words and symbol systems only distorts the "signal" and inhibits the effective application of one's intuition to the attainment of real, immutable, knowledge.

IIE. The Phenomenologists

The Phenomenological point of view is that every thing has an invariable and irreducible "essence" ("Eidos", as distinguished from contingent information about the thing). We can grasp this essence only intuitively ("Eidetic Reduction"). This process - of transcending the concrete and reaching for the essential - is independent of facts, concrete objects, or mental constructs. But it is not free from methodology ("free variation"), from factual knowledge, or from ideal intuitions. The Phenomenologist is forced to make the knowledge of facts his point of departure. He then applies a certain methodology (he varies the nature and specifications of the studied object to reveal its essence) which relies entirely on ideal intuitions (such as the rules of logic).

Phenomenology, in other words, is an Idealistic form of Rationalism. It applies reason to discover Platonic (Idealism) essences. Like Rationalism, it is not empirical (it is not based on sense data). Actually, it is anti-empirical - it "brackets" the concrete and the factual in its attempt to delve beyond appearances and into essences. It calls for the application of intuition (Anschauung) to discover essential insights (Wesenseinsichten).

"Phenomenon" in Phenomenology is that which is known by consciousness and in it. Phenomenologists regarded intuition as a "pure", direct, and primitive way of reducing clutter in reality. It is immediate and the basis of a higher level perception. A philosophical system built on intuition would, perforce, be non speculative. Hence, Phenomenology's emphasis on the study of consciousness (and intuition) rather than on the study of (deceiving) reality. It is through "Wesensschau" (the intuition of essences) that one reaches the invariant nature of things (by applying free variation techniques).


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[michellepetkus]

Hello Tanemon,

I can't really say I have any exercises to share but I have spent a lot of time trying to get intune with my intuition recognizing the difference between true intution and other mind created feelings. As an example we have all probably experienced that calm feeling of knowing that we are on the right track. It's a pretty good feeling that gives one a sense of self confidence. However it gets a little mirky when trying to distinguish between true intution warning feelings and ones that are brought on by our own fear. But these warning feelings can be just as helpful if not more helpful than the feel good ones. This monday I went to work and felt very out of sorts. Something wasn't right and I just knew something was going to blow up. And indeed I had two projects that could have turned into an absolute nightmare had I not been forewarned to pay attention ahead of time for what was going to happen. And as soon as I was able to successfully head the problems off at the pass the agitated feelings went away. So I very much think our intuition is very handy but for me personally I had to first work through reacting at life from an emotional standpoint to be able to trust that my intuition was really intuition and not mind generated melodramatic feelings.

Love,
Michelle

[Tanemon]

Thanks for the responses.

I've long felt that there's a fork in the road, so to speak, between a couple of kinds of inner feeling/knowledge that people call "intuition". One is a sort of "hunch" that is a vague feeling, often, but it actually comes from having pretty good general knowledge of a situation and/or of typical human interactions. Then maybe you get a hunch about something specific, even though you could not very well explain the situation to anyone, in any detailed or articulated fashion. Example: you've been working with a team of people (A, B, and C) and you know their personalities, and a new person (D) joins the group and you get a sense of their personality and you sense that at some point B & D are probably going to clash. And then 10 days later, it happens. That's a kind of subtle inner inference.

But there is also another direction the "road" I mentioned takes, the other fork: this is true intuition, where no general knowledge seems to form the background, and you are not simply filling in an unknown corner of a situation you know well overall. As in a situation I remember where I went to my rural mailbox (a bank of mailboxes on the road, where about 30 households each have a locked compartment), and a fellow I'd never met before was there. We each acknowledged the other and said hi. He then asked me if I practiced meditation on a regular basis, and I told him yes. It turned out he had been in a coma for months, in one stretch in his life, and when he came out of that he had some sharper power of intuition.

Intuition (the actual sort) can remain pretty vague or sometimes develops (and maybe can be deliberately developed) into a more well-defined (sharper) form, in which more detail is grasped.

One method I've used is keeping a dream journal. This is something I did one time for about a year. Just writing down, in the morning, as much as I could recall about my dreams. Not trying to add interpretation to them, just recalling them, so I could: a) get more familiar with my dream life and sub-conscious mind, and b) possibly see some patterns in my dreams, over time.
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[Velarius]

I know this is going to sound sort of cliche but here goes. For me i know that i have always gotten more of this type of "true intuition" when i have conciously worked on my energy work and spiritual beliefs. In other words if we are "in the flow" the intution is more likely to come. Also i have gotten it at times when people i care about are in danger.
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"The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities."
Tao Te Ching, 4

[Theressa]

Hi Tan,

I find meditation helps me. Also, I journal my thoughts and dreams.

I find that if I have asked a question/prayed then I feel I am guided. I am attracted to books etc

I think inner connection is best. Quiet alone time.

I think synchroncity is also intuition.

Love
Theressa

[GeneHrsy]

Hiya Tan.,

As you can see from the responses here, there are many forms of exercise from many disciplines that will help your awareness of intuition. In many of these the word intuition is exchanged for insight, awareness, Christ Mind, etc. This can be confusing ... or not.

The best book I ever read to help you regain your trust in intuition is called: "Awakening Your Psychic Powers", An Edgar Cayce Guide, by Henry Reed, PH. D.

Be aware, however, that some of this 'awakening' can be frightening if you are not mentally prepared. Take it slowly ... it is a wonderful journey! There are many here (me included) who are very willing to help you in understanding along your path. We're here for you, Kiddo.

I believe that it is part of our human condition; that we all posses powers that have been denied by society and even feared by many who do not comprehend the connection we share to all life.
Thank You
Namaste
Gene
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[aeon]

I first came across the Celestine prophecy a good number of years ago, probably when it first came out. I think it must have been one of the books with the experiential guide... I was not ready to take it fully on board then but I took one thing with me and it was the exercise of asking yourself "What did I notice today?" It was remarkable how enlightening this process could be in showing how intuitions and synchronicities were happening all the time if we would only pay attention to them. The second level of this recognition is to actually do it whilst the noticing is taking place... in other words.... notice that you are noticing...and ask yourself "Why?"
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[truth]

Hi Guys, I have a question about intuition and dreams...

The other day when I was on the forum I 'noticed' that Tanemon was logged in at the same time as me. Today I had a quick scan around to see what was happening and was drawn to this thread... what I noticed was reference to the dream journals, which having pondered for a moment or two, reminded me that I've been noticing a lot of inspiring dreams recently - short sharp bursts of mixed messages, which I've taken as meaning that there are great changes afoot, but not necessarily useful as a guide to future actions.

The question being, do dreams provide insight into what we will do and therefore monitoring them will help guide our future actions, or, is life changing at such a pace at the moment, they can only provide a sense of what might happen and in order to be true, we can only do whatever feels right at the time as and when it happens?

I guess the reason I ask is because, although I love my sleep and know that my sleep and dreams have played a huge part in me overcoming my fears and insecurities and providing insight into life and its meanings, without which I could not have learned to trust again my intuition, I have never felt inclined to record my dreams in any way... a curiosity... or am I just lazy?

The other question this raises for me is that part of me senses that I have to somewhow learn how to visualise the future in order to make it happen - a bit of an issue for me when I see the future as a blank canvas!

Cheers,
Pat

[aeon]

I had a strange dream last night where Manchester United football players were lying injured in hospital and I knew that the management had buttons for "search and rescue" but were not using them so their players were hurt.

When I woke up I said to myself how would I summarise that?

Man United has search and rescue buttons and they are not using them.

I interpreted as a comment that people who were already cognizant of the unity of mankind in a deep way, possibly those who had read the Celestine books. and myself individually were not using our prayer fields in the best way to search and rescue ....

If you know how your dreams work and their interpretation is easy for you then it is probably worth keeping a journal...though in my experience it was the other way round. You only get to that level of understanding with your dreams by some pretty consistent and hard work paying attention to them and getting to know your own personal dream language by keeping a daily journal. Special dreams should always be written down... others, like the one above are just comments which we should take on board and act on immediately and if appropriate, consistently.
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[michellepetkus]

Hi Pat,

Most of our dreams are a reflection of where we are at at this moment in time and where we would like to go. Sort of a review of what we are thinking and feeling. Events and major conversations of the previous day usually take center stage. For example I watched a cops show yesterday where a woman was arrested for stealing from a grocery store. I have also been thinking about my diet and how I very well need to make it healthier. So I had a dream that I was being chased around a grocery store by some authority figures who wanted to arrest me. And basically what this means is I feel imprisoned by this diet thing. I know I should follow the rules but I feel like I won't be free if I do. In any event I am not here to hash out my personal dreams but the point is they really are personal to you and you are free to deal with them in any way you see fit. Whether you write them down or not is totally up to you. You will still benefit from them subconsciously. So just have fun with them. If you feel like paying more attention to them one day you will.

Love,
Michelle

[Tanemon]

So people have again picked up the thread! Well, what are the current perspectivs of the people here at C.V. these days?

How do you work with intuition? Have you found a way to increase your conscious intuition?

Tanemon
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[Theressa]

Hi Tanemon,

I have been recently checking the buzz in my solar plexus area which is my intuition which i never paid much attention to before that much until recently. I am using it to make decisions. We'll see how this works. Before I'd use dreams and thoughts so i am thinking maybe i am using sense as well now.

Love and light
Theressa
xxx