Intuition

by

Professor Jon Saul

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Intuition has a bad rep, and most logical people will have no truck with "spooky" intuition. Nonetheless, intuition has quite a legitimate pedigree.

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Intuition is an immediate understanding of the totality of a situation. Intuition involves a truly instantaneous appreciation of what is happening without any duration of time (absolutely zero time elapsed - much faster than the speed of light, the speed at which computers function!). Intuition provides a complete understanding of a given reality or set of realities, prior to consciously or unconsciously thinking or experiencing.

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Thus, intuition is more fundamental to reality than logic, which is a superimposition of our conceptions of space and time. The connections among things that intuition provides us is a reflection of the direct connection we have with the reality around us (we live in it; we co-exist with it). 

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The transference of information from things to our minds that happens via intuition allows our brains to put together all of the tiny bits of reality that we perceive (through our senses) all at once. Intuition enables instant processing of this data and instant results. Via intuition, we can experience all things in the moment, we live in the moment, we perceive with all our senses at once to know all things we sense at once.

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Intuition is fed by sensory perception, but not through the prism of space and time. 

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Intuition is as valid as logic. In fact, intuition is far more powerful and informative than logic for all of us. Intuition is an enormously legitimate way of knowing that is entirely independent of and free from the constraints of logic. Everyone has intuition, just as everyone has instincts and instinctual reactions. Some have more intuition than others. 

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Intuition allows one to be instantaneously knowledgeable about people and their characters, about the nature of things, about situations and their consequences, and about relationships and their pro's and con's. 

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Intuition is understanding, just like knowledge or facts. It's simply that, with logic, facts, and science, we proceed linearly, from one fact to the next. If we are good at it, we do it rather quickly. This is, of course, what humans program computers to do. That is, to make many minute decisions, between a 1 and a 0, and compile these little decisions into big ones, and so on, until we can understand the whole.

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This process is, essentially, analysis. We break things down into understandable, knowable or fundamental parts. Analysis can be a conscious or an unconscious process.

 

Yet, as fast as it can be, logic is linear. Intuition, on the other hand, is holistic. It is understanding something immediately. Like knowledge, understanding relies on sensory input. However, unlike logic, intuition is not bound by space and time, literally or figuratively. For example, logically, two things, two thoughts, cannot occupy the same space at the same time. But intuition can allow for such a representation of reality. Or even three things.  Or more.