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Post by LorrB on Oct 31, 2012 7:40:46 GMT 9.5
Intuition
If you will seriously consider with me what the intuition is not, I think my words will find in you an inner response.
The intuition is not a welling forth of love to people, and, therefore, an understanding of them. Much that is called the intuition is recognition of similarity, and the possession of a clear analytical mind. Intelligent people, who have lived in the world for some time and who have experience much and who have contacted many other people, can usually sum up with facility the problems and dispositions of others, provided they are interested. This they must not, however, confound with the intuition.
The intuition has no relation to psychism, either higher or lower; the seeing of a vision, the hearing of the Voice of the Silence, a pleased reaction to teaching of any kind, does not infer the functioning of the intuition. It is not only the seeing of symbols, for that is a special sort of perception, and the capacity to tune in on the Universal Mind upon that layer of Its activity which produces the pattern-forms on which all etheric bodies are based. It is not intelligent psychology, and a loving desire to help. That emanates from the interplay of a personality, governed by a strong soul orientation, and the group-conscious soul.
Intuition is the synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul, and it only becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two directions; towards the Monad, and towards the integrated and perhaps (even if only temporarily) co-ordinated and at-oned personality. It is the first indication of a deeply subjective unification, which will find its consummation at the third initiation.
Intuition is a comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is, momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness. At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love, which has no relation to sentiment or to the affectional reaction, but is, predominantly, in the nature of identification with all beings. Then is true compassion known; then does criticism become impossible; then, only, is the divine germ seen as latent in all forms.
Intuition is light itself, and when it is functioning, the world is seen as light and the light bodies of all forms become gradually apparent. This brings with it the ability to contact the light centre in all forms, and thus again an essential relationship is established, and the sense of superiority and separateness recedes into the background.
Intuition, therefore, brings with its appearance three qualities: Illumination … Understanding … Love … These three words sum up the three qualities or aspects of the intuition, and can be covered by the word, universality, or the sense of universal Oneness.
Ponder On This, AAB & dk
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Post by LorrB on Oct 31, 2012 7:58:21 GMT 9.5
IN-tuition - the centre from which we cannot err ?
Atonement = At Onement
Atone! be At One!
Illumination, Understanding, Love Wisdom, Strength, Beauty
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Post by paul on Oct 31, 2012 9:04:32 GMT 9.5
>momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness This can be of use in diagnosing other beings - including cosmic entities. Thus the state of the target being is reflected in the observer's experience of their own system. The heart is the primary facilitator of co-experience. Here is a relevant account in Parsifal. Amfortas is suffering a wound in his thigh (code for sexual) that never heals and Parsifal feels the pain himself: "(The knights rise and pace from either side to the centre, where they solemnly embrace during the ensuing. During the meal Amfortas, who has taken no part in it, has gradually relapsed from his inspired exultation: he bows his head and holds his hand on the wound. The acolytes approach him; their movements reveal that his wound is bleeding anew: they tend Amfortas, assisting him back on to his litter and, while all prepare to depart, they bear out Amfortas and the holy shrine in the order in which they entered. The knights likewise fall into solemn procession and slowly leave the hall. The daylight fades. Squires again quickly pass through the hall. – The last knights and squires have left the hall, and the doors are closed. – Parsifal, on hearing Amfortas’s previous loud cry of agony, had made a violent movement towards his heart, which he clutched convulsively for a long time: now he again stands motionless, as if petrified." www.testament.co.uk/libretti/SBT41455libretto.pdfI have had a similar experience of another's heart pain - with episodes lasting for hours. Of course there are also uplifting co-experiences, as well as perception of reality at a level beyond thought.
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Post by stepnwolf on Jan 10, 2013 23:33:52 GMT 9.5
At first I found LorrB's discussion on Intuition somewhat confusing because like Humpty Dumpty we both think “When I use a word, it means exactly what I mean it to mean, no more and no less." Is it that Intuition may have a special meaning for each of us?
Resorting to a dictionary, intuition is the “direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.” This seems to be the general case for LorrB's specific use of the word.
Would it be fair to substitute the word compassion for intuition in this particular case? Even here there seems to be an element of pain not intended in the original word: compassion = to suffer with. On the other hand, in Yiddish shepping nachas can mean getting joy or pleasure from another person's joy. Another Yiddish word, kvell, carries a similar feeling. Neither suggests pain but points to pleasure, joy.
Maybe I'm confusing the medium with the message. Intuition is the means of acquiring this direct awareness of the other. We may need another word to refer to the other itself.
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Post by paul on Jan 11, 2013 6:30:20 GMT 9.5
The key concept is: direct perception. Thus the perception does not occur through the medium of the senses and is not the product of the mind.
Direct perception occurs through a degree of identification with the other entity. Thus there may be shared pain and shared joy.
The process is not one of a detached observer but of shared participation.
Through identification comes various attributes including compassion.
As a low level example of identification: years ago I was sitting at lunch with a friend and he asked me whether his car had problems. So I projected into the car to identify with it.
Immediately I was having some difficulty breathing so suggested that there was problem with the carburetor. He agreed with that.
Then I noticed that my wrists felt floppy and since they were coinciding with the front wheels of the car I suggested that there was wear in the front suspension and again he agreed.
Similar processes can occur at more profound levels.
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Post by LorrB on Jan 11, 2013 20:25:51 GMT 9.5
Strange as that story may seem to some, energy healers are quite familiar with the concept. Colin Bloy. of Fountain Group fame, even instructed his students to draw stick figures in the air, of the people they were trying to assist with healing. By scanning the imaginary stick figures with their hands the talented healers could pick up on problem areas etc. I rather suspect that the stick figures were just an aid for the mind of the individual healers. An anchor for the mind so that intensive concentration became easier. Veils were lifted so to speak.
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Post by paul on Feb 1, 2013 7:49:44 GMT 9.5
>sensation on my ring finger....a longing on my ring finger
The Tree of Life is accessible on the first 3 fingers of each hand - with the joints corresponding to the sephira.
Access is made by touching the thumb to the relevant joint.
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Post by LorrB on Feb 1, 2013 8:21:18 GMT 9.5
Is this why meditators touch the thumb to the tip of the first finger? I kinda thought that it was to do with body electrics.
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Post by LorrB on Feb 1, 2013 8:22:35 GMT 9.5
... er, or is it the second finger? I am ashamed to say I do not meditate that way much.
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Post by paul on Feb 1, 2013 8:32:11 GMT 9.5
The mudras are based on the same energy structure and constitute a subset of what can be done with the ToL on the hand.
I do not meditate that way either.
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Post by LorrB on Feb 5, 2013 7:56:00 GMT 9.5
Surprising how things happen... I was listening to the morning radio show on the way into work and they were interviewing the lady who discovered the body of Richard III (died late 15th century and referred to by Shakespeare). What caught me by surprise was how she discovered his grave... The project has been driven by Philippa Langley, an Edinburgh based screenwriter and secretary of the Scottish branch of the Richard III Society, “ who, four years ago, was researching a screenplay about ‘the real Richard’ (“not at all” she points out, “the brutal, ruthless tyrant that is given to us by most historians”).
Historical record points to the removal of Richard III’s body after his fatal wounding at the Battle of Bosworth (1485) to Leicester’s Grey Friars (the friary was subsequently razed in Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries). As part of her research Langley visited the car park which had been pointed out as the most likely site of the royal interment.
“I walked that car park and I just knew there was nothing there. It was ‘dead’.
"As I walked away, I saw another, private car park over to the right. I know how mad this sounds, but I snuck under the barrier and, on a very particular spot, I had the strongest sensation that I was walking on Richard’s grave. On a subsequent visit, I found a little white ‘R’ painted on the exact same spot. Of course it was ‘R’ for ‘reserved’, not ‘R’ for Richard but from that moment on, I was on a mission.”
Powering through red tape and initial scepticism, Langley obtained permission from Leicester City Council, commissioned a dig by University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) and, when funding fell through at the last minute, raised £13,000 in two weeks from an appeal to ‘Ricardians’ around the world.
In August 2012 excavations revealed an intact skeleton which bore marks of a fatal, slicing blow to the head (the only known account of Richard’s death is a poem which states he was “pole-axed to the head”) and had a arrow lodged in its back – both injuries consistent with death in battle. The skeleton also appeared to show scoliosis of the spine, a condition often imputed to Richard and cruelly commemorated in Shakespeare’s famous image of his villain as “a foul, bunch-back’d toad”.
www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02-04/meet-philippa-langley-the-woman-who-discovered-richard-iii-in-a-car-park
.. love stories like this.
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Post by LorrB on Feb 5, 2013 8:04:23 GMT 9.5
That story led me to re-read the initial post of this thread, particularly this part... Intuition is the synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul, and it only becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two directions; towards the Monad, and towards the integrated and perhaps (even if only temporarily) co-ordinated and at-oned personality. It is the first indication of a deeply subjective unification, which will find its consummation at the third initiation.
Intuition is a comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is, momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness. At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love, which has no relation to sentiment or to the affectional reaction, but is, predominantly, in the nature of identification with all beings. Then is true compassion known; then does criticism become impossible; then, only, is the divine germ seen as latent in all forms. ..identification with all beings past as well as present it seems.
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Post by LorrB on Feb 5, 2013 8:18:26 GMT 9.5
My masonic take on this... (in colour) Intuition is the synthetic understanding which is the prerogative of the soul SW and it only becomes possible when the soul, on its own level, is reaching in two directions; towards the Monad Master, and towards the integrated and perhaps (even if only temporarily) co-ordinated and at-oned personality JW. It is the first indication of a deeply subjective unification, which will find its consummation at the third initiation when the Three operate at the same level.
Intuition is a comprehensive grip Triple of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is, momentarily at least, a complete loss of the sense of separateness. At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love, which has no relation to sentiment or to the affectional reaction, but is, predominantly, in the nature of identification with all beings. Then is true compassion known; then does criticism become impossible; then, only, is the divine germ seen as latent in all forms. and it is just Tuesday.
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Post by LorrB on Feb 5, 2013 9:04:56 GMT 9.5
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Post by paul on Feb 5, 2013 12:45:59 GMT 9.5
Technically the interconnectedness (or entanglement) is operative at etheric levels of the physical plane. And as below so above, so such entanglement exists on every plane including the Buddhic Plane on which intuition operates.
Intuition is a function that is possible because of the properties of the Buddhic Plane as it interpenetrates the lower planes.
I suspect that Intuition operates more easily horizontally and down the planes. It is not clear that it operates upwards unless permitted to do so by the target entity.
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Post by paul on Jun 14, 2013 9:25:43 GMT 9.5
I just had an email:
"So one more trick here I think that will be helpful for developing the intuition as well is use the technique to go to a still point which is you sort of roll your eyes up as though they can now look inside your head, towards the center of the head. So almost like you’re cross-eyed and looking to the center, then declare “I AM” or you can say “God is” or anything that you want to play with, and then wait for a little click or shift in the consciousness that moves you to the still point. It’s very brief. It’s a very quick exercise. "
So what do we experience with this?
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Post by LorrB on Jun 14, 2013 9:47:26 GMT 9.5
I didn't get a click but I started to rock back and forth very gently... nice! Noticed that the longer I did it the faster and narrower the rocking became. Internal colours changed from a dark red centred blue to black space.
Will try it when at home later, when not so many people around.
I love your experiments.
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Wishful Thinking Fallacy (WTF)
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Post by Wishful Thinking Fallacy (WTF) on Jun 14, 2013 23:33:42 GMT 9.5
www.skepdic.com/intuitive.htmlIntuition is either wishful or fearful thinking or reasoning without necessarily being able to identify each cognitive step.
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Post by paul on Jun 15, 2013 6:45:28 GMT 9.5
>Intuition is either wishful or fearful thinking or reasoning without necessarily being able to identify each cognitive step.
Experiencers of intuition speak of direct knowledge - so that reasoning occurs after the event - and that reasoning is often incomplete.
I used to find that when I constructed large computer models of an economy. I would emerge from my regular meditation knowing what to change in the model but it would take a day or more before I could find the logic path to be able to explain it to the others on the team.
Women are known for being better at intuition.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Post by Ivy Compton-Burnett on Jun 15, 2013 12:34:48 GMT 9.5
Women are known for being better at intuition. I am not know for sexist metaphysical generalisations. "There is more difference within the sexes than between them." - Ivy Compton-Burnett.
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