“What Powerful Skill Does Intuition Become?”

Dear Friend,

This is the third installment on the series on intuition.  Before we had discussed what builds intuition and what dampens intuition.  We also talked about how intuition should be harmonized with intellect.  It occurred to me that I hadn’t actually talked about what I meant when I was using the word, ‘intuition.”

Intuition is used to describe a knowledge of what the outcome of events will be, where threats are hiding, where possible paths of success are, and in determining whether or not a person is telling the truth to you.

This knowledge generally comes as sudden impulses that are very visceral and are not deduced using the intellect.  The thing that most limits intuition is desire.  For some this means that they see what they want to see.  For others, the desire to be recognized as being special causes the intellect to be used in generating a fantasy impulse.

Intuition is really a word for a natural human ability that is suppressed within the Social Mind.  When this natural ability is fully developed, a person can exist in a state of constant intuition, at which point it becomes the Taoist vision.  It is as reliable as normal vision, and is subject to the similar restrictions as normal vision.

For example, with your eyes there will be places you can’t see.  There will be things that you see and don’t understand.  You will interpret things incorrectly.  There will be areas that you don’t look.  There will be things that you missed even among the things that you do see.

Intuition is not infallible.  I mention this, because the skill of intuition is given the status of having absolute truth to it.  It sees things that can not be seen by many others, but it is not infallible.  It can be deceived, and it can provide useless information—just like normal vision.

Taoists develop this Taoist vision as an automatic outgrowth of Taoist practice.  As your Social Mind is replaced through insight experiences, and you stop imposing mind upon the world, intuition grows in strength.  Meditation will allow small moments of insight to string together.  Once the string is formed, it becomes a consistent stream of information that plugs into your brain--that is the Taoist vision.

Bonus: How to Quickly Grow Intuition to Taoist Vision

First of all, for some Intuition can be very quickly developed, with only modest changes in Social Mind.  One of the fastest pathways for developing intutition comes from learning a specific type of not mind. 

Everyone has intuitive experiences.  If you get caught up trying to explain what intuition is or how it works, you will almost certainly stagnate the ability.  There is a great difference between having an experience and explaining an experience and having others accept it.  You must be willing to abandon both the desire to explain and be accepted.  These are human interpretations of an event and not the event itself.  The event exists independently of any attempt to explain it.

The reason for this need to separate?  Well, your explanation will come from the Social Mind, won’t it?

Warm Regards,

Master Mikel Steenrod

Keeper of the Gate of Man and Heaven

(Lineage Holder of the 4 Ascendant Spheres Purity Adept School of the Tao)