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What is the source of intuition?

My intuition has never failed me. I have recognized a intuition after a event and I have ignored it and 'paid the price'. Is intuition an advanced human capacity that we have yet to harness? Is it a mental process based on retained experience and associated probabilities? Or, do we process an event and enlist our creative mind to imagine and convince ourselves we were aware prior? Your thoughts

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    Brian Gonsalves

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    Jul 14 2012: Experience is the source of Intuition, I think.
    The base of one's experience determines the width of one's intuition. An individual open to a variety of life's offerings and attentive to each experience in minute details (smell, sound, taste, etc), will invariable be more intuitive, wont they?
    A deaf person may not be intune to audiable references but may be highly intuitive to non-verbal cues, body language, etc.
    Then there are those among us with experiences outisde of our sensory realm, who may tell us much about the unseen, which we may chose to dimiss outrightly or asscribe to their intuition or sixth sense, but their past experiences have informed their intuition.
    A new mothers special bond with their baby may appear intuitive, but it is based on prior non-verbal communications long befeore the baby is born.
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      Humberto Forcelledo

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      Jul 17 2012: Pardon, but are you defining intuition as an analysys of every day sense perceptions (as you say , sounds, smell etc) I can not reconcile the lack of one sense making another sense more acute as "intuition" but merely the physical rewiring of a very tangible brain. Physical perceptions are often considred intuitive "Oh I thought the phone was going to ring and it did" well did it? what exatly happens when a phone rings you have energy in the form of electricity and magnetisim you have transistors capacitors etc. The moment an energy of any kind enters the equation it seases to be intuition. Your body may be very sensitive to a subtle change in magenetic flow. To me intuition is produced withut any external stimuli whatsoever. My example of the car probably contradicts this statement since I could very well have been very in tune with the sound of the car approaching. so it was a bad example. Even what I consider my most intituve moment the death of a pet the day before he died , is not entirely pure intuition I could have percived a change in his temperature a particular sound or his reaching for my help.
      I understand that I am describing intuition as a supernatural event with no possible explanation other than our divine self taps into an unearthly source.
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        Colleen Steen 500+

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        Jul 17 2012: Hi Humberto,
        You say..."The moment an energy of any kind enters the equation it seases to be intuition".

        Would you agree that our body carries energy? I think that is scientifically proven. So energy IS in the equation at all times...is it not? I believe everything is connected with energy, so I don't undersand how energy would not be considered in the equation of intuition.
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          Humberto Forcelledo

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          Jul 17 2012: THANK YOU COLLEEN !

          REALLY I did try to kick myself , I am sorry I am not built in that particular configuration. (see, if you could read my mind youd know what I meant) I meant sensory perceptions, external knowledge, conditions etc.Although most times those elements are accompanied by energy. ( I am not doing an " it all depnds in what the meaning of the word is, is" )
          You are absolutly right.ENERGY is indispensable.Much of what we accomplish (or not) be it material, creative, spiritual is dependant on energy. Divine energy (and I am not saying this in a theological way) is the key "PURE ENERGY" One of the great keys to the Big Bang debate is exactly that . "where did the energy to produce the Big Bang come from?
          Thanks for pointing out a rather silly statement.
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        Brian Gonsalves

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        Jul 17 2012: No I am not saying that at all Humberto, not an analysis of everyday events but a subconscious recall, a hint, a sense that something is about to happen, but unable to articulate why or what makes one suspect or foretells said future event. Being unable to explain the reason does not imply that there is no reasoning, just not on a consious level. (Hope that makes sense)

        Some people explore their environments with all of their senses, therefore they may feel or experience much more (subtle) changes in their environment. Moments before others can hear the phone ring, they may predict it's ringing but not be able to tell why they knew.

        We may ascribe intuition to that person only because they cannot explain their prediction reasonable.

        So I do not think that intiuition is some supernatural gift, it is but heightened sensory capacity that we are all capable of experiencing. I don't think that anyone have ever been intuitive of an event that has not been experienced before. Anyone who can demonstrate prior knowledge of a yet to be experienced event would demonstrate something supernatural indeed.

        Some folks just make educated guesses about future events based solely on their study and analysis of them.
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        Colleen Steen 500+

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        Jul 18 2012: YOU ARE WELCOME HUMBERTO!

        REALLY...don't hurt yourself by kicking yourself...LOL:>)

        Actually, I think/feel I did know what you meant...at least I suspected! I was agreeing with most of what you wrote and when I read that statement, it didn't seem to fit with other things you were saying....my intuition kicked in:>)

        THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOT "doing an " it all depnds in what the meaning of the word is" ...I appreciate that VERY MUCH....LOL :>)

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