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Post by fear on Apr 28, 2009 19:36:17 GMT -5
Ituition is information that spontaneously arises. Developing intuition for me has been a slow process but nevertheless it has been developing. Sometimes it helps me prepare for what's to come but most of the time I don't realize an intuitive moment until later when the information is confirmed. Now most of this info is not life or death. It's small little things, like someone going to call or visit, a warning of something to happen or info about a person. E.g on monday, i woke up and a thought about working overtime entered my head for no reason. I wasn't thinking about work. That night I ended up working until 1am and there was no way of getting out of it so I didn't make it happen, it just did. The info of someone going to call happens all the time. There are many other very little things that would take me ages to describe here. I know that my level is a very low, basic level. There are people out there who know your entire past and future just by meeting you. That's probably the highest level of intuition. In my opinion, this is how to develop it: 1. stay silent as often as possible and allow things to arise. Don't label everything. E.g if you look at a tree, you may believe you know everything about that tree, "it is a maple", "it is green", "it is not aware", "it is this and that". This is a block to intuition because you are not allowing the possibility of the tree being something other than what you think it is. In silence, information may arise that will tell you a lot about that tree, you just have to allow the possibility of it. A tree is a simple example, but just think how much we label people and things in our world. Being open will allow intuition. 2. strengthen the spirit. Meditation, eat healthy, sleep well, be celibate as much as possible  . We drain energy when we have sex or overindulge in food and other unhealthy habits. Fun stuff but energy draining. 3. Be in the moment- kind of ties into number 1 but think about when you're driving, your mind is somewhere else. How often are we daydreaming or fantasizing. We are never just here. This is important for intuition. It's like banging on a drum while a tiny voice is trying to reach you. It won't happen unless the noise is eliminated. Intuition is always there, it's part of being human. What differs is how well we are tuned into it. Also women are much more intuitive, don't know why. I'm pretty new at this so feel free to correct me or add anything additional. |
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Post by Peter on Apr 29, 2009 4:04:19 GMT -5
Helpful post, thanks Fear. Ituition is information that spontaneously arises. Yes, spontaneously arising information. But that's not to guarantee it's correct. I had a strong inutition that I should buy shares in a particular communications company. A year later I'm very glad I ignored that one! Also the other day I had a problem with my computer and I had an intuition about how to solve it. It was a gut feeling, a resonance of Truth, a deep trust in the Universe and I KNEW it was right. Was it hell, didn't fix a thing.  I especially liked your point 1. I also find that 'making space' for intuition is important. When it comes to problem solving however, I find that one needs to put in the ordinary mental effort first. Explore every solution that comes to you and sweat blood and tears over it. Then take shower - bingo! Amazing how many things come to me in the bathroom. Something else I've noticed is that my intuition can be suspiciously silent if I'm in a area of a 'Life Lesson'. I remember when I was considering breaking up with one girl and going out with another and I was asking my Higher Self for guidance and I didn't get a thing back. That situation turned into a complete disaster that I thoroughly regret, but it did lead me into therapy and some essential personal development, so I think I was allowed to make my own mistakes there - tough loving. |
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Post by Peter on Jul 22, 2009 5:53:20 GMT -5
Thought I'd jump threads here since "The Guide Within" is more about Intuition than it is about The Importance of Teachers. If you don't have a guide, see him within you and the whole of your life, you are never without him, at one with the Self. I find that comforting, but from what I read on this board, I somewhat doubt Swami would condone such naivety!. I'm terribly awkward in addressing this guide within, but he/she sure has a way with sweet whisper. This is something that I've been getting more connected to recently, and I've been discussing it with a Mormon friend of mine who "Prays for Answers", which seems very similar to working with the Intuition or asking the Higher Self, Angels, Guides, Spirit Animal, whatever. I found Shawn's review of Joseph Sadony very helpful. I've been meaning to look more deeply into the referenced material. Intuition for me has a lot to do with 'Being Present' (possibly Gurdijeff's Self Remembering), although sometimes flashes of insight can come through when I'm totally not present also. I did have a 30 minute reminder set up on my computer which told me to "Be Present", but after a month or so I had the distinct feeling that my Intuition (or Guides or whatever I'm connecting to here) decided that this was a terrible idea and that Spiritual Development should not be mechanical or given a timetable. Insight arises spontaneously as a connection appears between two or more things held in the mind, not when a timer bell rings. There was a distinct sensation of relief when I switched that alert off. I really saw this in the film I Am Legend where Will Smith's character sees a butterfly in some cracked glass which reminds him of the shape his daughter signed to him before she died, and he connects that with a butterfly on someone's shoulder and sees the Will Of God. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. I sometimes get 'interference' - disturbing manic laughter or really negative commentary. I don't know if that's coming from my shadow self, or some 'other' entity - possibly the two things are the same thing. Anyway, between that and what I mentioned above about my gut instinct being completely incorrect a couple of times, I'm not going to be blindly following my intuition anywhere. Or at least, I'll be leaving a route plan with a responsible adult. This seems like a sensible stance to take regardless of whether one is following the guide within or a teacher without, although perhaps it suggests a lack of faith... Still, name your favourite cult led to disaster...I think it pays to keep the faculty of discernment close to hand and not just 'hand over' your will to another. Who's to say it's God who's talking? I guess that's part of the development and forming a connection that you can trust. Work in progress perhaps. Some 'rules' that seem to be followed by my intuition are: - I don't get any information about the future
- I don't get told what I should be doing with my life (it's totally up to me)
- I don't get told anything about someone that they might not want me to know (other people's free will is protected).
- I don't get told anything when I'm in the middle of a life lesson (see posting above)
It's MySelf we're talking about for god's sake, so beyond all uncertainties I should know shouldn't I? I bet that's what the Higher Intuition is... Any views? The Higher Self (as it's described in literature) is supposed to know...well, if not all there is to know, then certainly lot more than our Lower selves know. So you have to ask yourself, why doesn't it just give us that information? I guess what I'm saying is: I wouldn't expect to 'know' anything beyond all uncertainty. Because we're obviously being prevented, or are not able, to have this knowledge at this point in our (or my) lives. |
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Post by fear on Jul 22, 2009 11:29:59 GMT -5
I'd be careful with that disturbing manic laughter. It's because you are aware that it is separate from you. You're not sure about where it's coming from, hence how can it be you. When I experience intuition it's a feeling that arises within me, it does not need processing.
So example it'll just hit me, something is wrong with this picutre! it's not like I have to process a thought, it's just the feeling that something is not right about what's going on. So you hearing the negative commentary and manic laughter is an idication that it is not arising within you and it wants you to identify with it, make it a part of you and that's dangerous.
So don't let anything tell you as you hinted at being told by your intuition. Intuition is not telling you, it arises within you, with no emotion attached to it, negative or positive, it's just a simple fact, but yes sometimes our tuning mechanisms are not refined so we get it wrong, as often happens with me.
I was reading the Albigen papers by RR and he said a lot about intuition. He says to approach reality,
"An ituition with some degree of infallibility is needed."
"the process may be slow because of the limitations of the relative perspective."
"And the intuition is automatically developed, but it's development can be accelerated by personal techniques." (meditation, channeling energy into exercises )
"This habit develops a sense, an automatic computerization of greater and greater accuracy."
"We must find a way to periodically check our intuition to see if it is straying into hallucination or an egotistical belief in its own infallibility". (those manic voices, maybe)
Albigen Papers pg216
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Post by Peter on Jul 23, 2009 3:33:28 GMT -5
I'd be careful with that disturbing manic laughter. It's because you are aware that it is separate from you. You're not sure about where it's coming from, hence how can it be you. I think you're more definite about what is 'you', and what is 'other' than I am, Fear. I don't know where it's coming from, therefore I'm not able to say if it's me or not. If it is 'other', then I think I still need to look at what is in me that's allowing a connection. I think I told you the story before about hearing a lot of angry shouting when meditating and tracing that to my having failed to acknowledge that I was feeling angry with my best friend about abandoning a child? Yes intuition as feeling takes no time, but I'd also accept it coming as pictures, sounds and dialog. And dialog takes time to appear. Or more accurately, it appears fully formed in no time and then needs to be 'read out' in real time. It allows more complex ideas to be transmitted than feelings do. Did you read the Sardony stuff? His intuitive material is more in the style of a discussion. I don't know about that, Fear. The effect of the 'negative' experience is to make me want to push it away, not make it a part of me. If an entity wanted a 'way in', then it would make more sense for it to tell me things I want to hear and 'play nice'. Ok, I'll keep an eye on (and make a distinction between) what things appear without emotion and what ones feel like communication-with-personality - which could be 'other' or it could be a sub personality. I had a dream once where I met all my "Little I's", my alternate/dormant/sub personas. Which was quite cool until one of them suggested that it really didn't matter which one of us was the 'active' personality. That freaked me out (I bombed straight out of that dream with alacrity!) and really showed me how attached I am to the concept of 'me'. Thanks for the RR quotes. Interesting that he says the intuition needs to have a degree of infallibility, but also should not have a belief in it's own infallibility. Cheers, Peter |
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Post by fear on Jul 23, 2009 10:25:13 GMT -5
Well at RR's level, I don't think he needed to check his intuition too often because he had reached the level of great accuracy. I think his suggestion to check it was for those starting out, until we are totally in tune with it. Just like anything, it needs to be built on a solid foundation before we can coast with it.
That was a cool dream of your little I's. You should have written it down. Could save you a lot of work in finding those I's while awake. The fact that it freaked you out makes it even more valuable because it's something you didn't want to see or know, thereby being a great obstacle in becoming.
About an entity possibly wanting a way in through 'playing nice' is possible and there have been accounts of children being tricked by an imaginary friend. But there have also been accounts of people doing very violent things saying that voices made them do it. Of course they are trucked into the nearest mental institution and drugged up for being crazy without a real probe of what exactly happened. So by chance if you were to identify with those negative thoughts as being yours, you may possible act upon them to the delight of whatever is throwing them at you.
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Post by Peter on Jul 23, 2009 10:33:07 GMT -5
That was a cool dream of your little I's. You should have written it down. Could save you a lot of work in finding those I's while awake. The fact that it freaked you out makes it even more valuable because it's something you didn't want to see or know, thereby being a great obstacle in becoming. Well I was cool with meeting all the little I's, that was interesting and very friendly. It was just when one of them suggested that they 'take over' for a while (because it 'doesn't matter who's in charge' ) that I hit the exit button. I assume that if another "i" does take over, that "I" wouldn't remember what happened during that time. I found Martha Stout's book The Myth of Sanity useful in this area. Cheers, P |
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Post by divinity on Aug 18, 2009 16:59:48 GMT -5
I think that we all have all the intuition we need, and that we actually discover it as we go through life. Trusting one's intuition is what most people have difficulty with. Learning how to report our intuition flashes to those who it might help is tricky as well. We can help people a lot with what we sense.
Be very careful whose intuition you let into your head though... I've heard some pretty scary stuff! LOL
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Post by african on Aug 19, 2009 3:40:52 GMT -5
Be very careful whose intuition you let into your head though... I've heard some pretty scary stuff! LOL Isn't it that intuition arises from within? Then how can we be affected by some else's intuition? Doesn't that happen with thought waves, which I think are quite different from intuition. |
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Post by divinity on Aug 22, 2009 16:23:14 GMT -5
If we have a flash of intuition regarding an event which is coming to another and we find a gentle way to tell them, warn them, then that is how our intuition can affect others and how their intuition can effect us. IMHO only of course!
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Post by frances on Aug 29, 2009 19:59:24 GMT -5
To me intuition is a knowing without knowing that you know.A direct connection with the universe (God). It comes unexpected, like flashes of light at any time or moment. i believe it is developed through prayer and mediations.
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. We drain energy when we have sex or overindulge in food and other unhealthy habits. Fun stuff but energy draining. 
