INTUITION

To me, intuition is something like a hunch. I know something but I don't know why I know it. For example, perhaps I have this strong feeling, or a dream, that someone I love has died and then I find out a short while later that they did die (perhaps right around the time I has the hunch/intuition). Or perhaps I just knew someone was going to call and they called.

I think that sometimes we can have a strong sense of something (an intuition) of what is going to happen because of familiarity with the type of situation. Perhaps we have seen someone we love do something over and over again and we then start to see signs that remind us of these previous experiences. Once these signs are noticed then we just somehow know that this person is doing 'such and such' again, even though no one told us and we haven't seen it ourselves yet.

Speaking more philosophically, there is a vast amount of information that we process at all times. We are only consciously aware of so much of this information at any given moment. Perhaps the reason for this is because it would be too overwhelming to be aware of all the information, and images, at once so our minds are aware of only that which is most necessary for our normal functioning. In addition, we also have our habitual thought and emotional patterns which likely cause us to notice some types of images and information much more readily than others.

So, perhaps intuition is the ability of our psyche to fill in those gaps (the often unrecognized images and information) that normally exist below conscious awareness. When we become more aware of the causes and conditions, information and images, that normally lie below the surface of our awareness we are able to intuit or guess that such a such a thing happened or is likely to happen. I don't think it is always necessary for us to know consciously that the mind has taken in more information than normal which has caused the intuition. I think it sometimes just happens and the proof, or the result, is this knowing beyond the known (the known being what we are normally, currently, consciously, and/or habitually aware of), which I am calling intuition.

I like that..."Intuition is knowing beyond the known."