The Best Way to Master Your Intuitive Wisdom
Making choices. through Physical sensation (a ‘gut’ feeling), an Emotion, or a mental symbol or image to which one gives meaning.
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I am often accused of being “too intellectual”, and of not tapping into my intuition as much as I might. The thing that they don’t seem to understand, is that I use my intuition most of the time, but seldom when I have essential information available that can rationally guide me in the right direction.
In order to understand what I am saying here it is important to understand that intuition is more than just a gut feeling. Intuition is the ability to immediately access, and apprehend knowledge without the use of logic, or reason.
Intuition is generally experienced as a; Physical sensation (a ‘gut’ feeling), an Emotion, or a mental symbol or image to which one gives meaning.
Do you feel disconnected from ordinary life, as if you are an outsider in any group of people? As if you weren’t made for this world? Do you at times contemplate living a monk’s life - thinking that becoming a monastic will solve your problems? One of the key elements in my Teachings, in Our Work, is that a core element in living the “spiritual life,” is learning to be in the world even if not of the world.
When you fully engage the world, you must do so while living a proactive life of clarity and effectiveness. You will constantly be presented with so-called “truths” that may have little or no evidence to support them. As part of this practice, you will need to seek the support of other extraordinary people and have the willingness to consider ideas that do not fit your personal agenda. We are all most susceptible to the influence of RTPs and negative “groupthink” in times of uncertainty, confusion, and turmoil when much of what we all consider to be “normal” comes under question. This is why the individual seeking to develop EEPPSA is calm and focused even in the most challenging times.
This is of great value when one decides to create, join or support a community of extraordinary people. Such groups often include unconventional artistic subcultures, political activist organizations, or others interested in EEPPSA. Our work can free an individual from being a rebel without a cause while offering them clarity on what is really going on. With the advent of digitally-based social networking tools like Facebook, YouTube, Linkedin, and other sources it is easier than ever to live a life of mindfulness and clarity while living in the material world. I often refer to this practical philosophy as Our Work - this for a number of reasons.
· Little of what I have to say is original. For the most part it is a synthesis of ideas that have been presented by many great thought leaders of the past.
· The organizing of these teachings has involved many collaborators over the last fifty plus years. These collaborators have included my mentors and teachers, my peers, and many students/apprentices.
The intellect helps us in making sense of the world. However, it does have its limitations. Intellectual knowledge implies the knowing subject and the known object. As much as modern, Western society values the intellect, and the accumulation of intellectual knowledge, the fact is that the intellect is not effective in action. Most of us act not out of knowledge but rather out of reaction to circumstance. As brilliant as a person may be when it comes down to applying this knowledge in everyday life few people are up to the task. And it is a task. Life is not a collection of intellectual ideas. It is not a process of the knowing and the known. We all have beliefs about things that are a mixture of cultural idiosyncrasies, religious beliefs, gender, chronological age, emotional maturity, media influence, sensory input, and many other factors. The intellect is incapable of defining and categorizing this vast range of experience for it is itself a part of that experience of phenomena. Intellect attempts to be objective and yet it never achieves this. Intellect is a subjective source that always seeks to ask the objective question. If the questioner is subjective, how can the answer be any more than subjective? How can the intellect grasp the intuitive nature of inner wisdom, which transcends the knower and the known? All philosophical theories are simply assumptions and guesses.
To connect to one’s inner wisdom is to experience absolute and transcendent truth. Intellectual attainments, rather than being a pathway to this experience, are an obstacle. Inner wisdom is not anti-intellectual but it also understands the limits of intellectual knowledge. After all, you cannot measure the speed that a river flows with a ruler. The great Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu writes:
“People who commit excess in arguments, like piling up bricks and tying knots, analyzing and inquiring into distinctions of hard and white, identities and differences, wear themselves out over vain useless terms...All these are superfluous and devious growths of knowledge and are not the correct guide for the world.”
The mind is always seeking the truth. Yet for thousands of years, great thinkers and writers have pointed out that truth cannot be put into words. Some of the basic laws of physics like the concept of love or truth are not easily inexpressible in words.
The writings of many great thinkers indicate they realized that the farther a person’s desires went outward into the external activities - the achieving of great intellectual knowledge, gathering great wealth, or achieving fame - the more entangled one would become in the material world. They also knew that such external entanglement and emotional chaos would inhibit accessing inner knowledge.
There is an inner wisdom that we all possess and often this wisdom will contradict what seems logical at the moment. How can this be? One explanation is that the laws of logic, no matter how objective they seem to be, are still about the subjective, for thought is subject and logic comes from thought. In the mind, everything is theoretical, and reality is simply a special case of the theoretical. Our common reality makes perfect intellectual sense if not looked at too closely, but in time, we soon learn that it is impossible to live in any intellectual concept of reality when there are so many contradictions arising. Eventually, our minds and our emotions will declare war on each other.
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