Ritam Studio Podcast With Jonni Pollard and Carla Dimattina

The Compassionate Design of Universal Intelligence

• Jonni Pollard

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Our intuitive feelings aren't random thoughts but glimpses of our natural intelligence breaking through our conditioning. We explore how we are intelligence itself rather than having intelligence, and how trusting our gut feelings connects us to a deeper knowing.

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Speaker 1:

So I just want to find out about when you get it like a gut feeling about something, are you manifesting that event to occur, or is that? Are you sort of foreseeing something that is going to happen? And you know, what can you like, what can you do to kind of act on that? And is it something that you should act on, depending on, I guess, what you're feeling? Depending on, I guess, what you're feeling? So it's kind of because, yeah, like, I'm just noticing a lot more experiences where, you know, I definitely have sort of a feeling and I sort of say, oh, that's, you know, that's going to have a good result, or there's something that I feel that's about bad to be happen, and yeah, so like, but there's just a feeling and then so it's not sort of happened yet, but just by feeling that is this, you know your mind just casting negativity, you know across that you're sort of buying into, yep, or you feel like you start to spiral into some kind of well, yeah, but like, like it might, it might just be.

Speaker 1:

Um, you know, I'm having like feeling really good, but then all of a sudden I sort of something. I just sort of go oh, I've got a bad feeling about this and oh, but it'll be okay, just do it and and and then it results in something like oh, I kind of knew that was going to happen, you know come back and say I knew that was going to happen.

Speaker 1:

why didn't I listen to myself? Why didn't I act on that? Um, so I suppose, am I seeing, am I just, you know, having more awareness about these things? And it's sort of, you know, dangling a bait in front of you to sort of say, hey, you know, take note, yes. Or again, is it something like all of a sudden you just have this little pop of a negative thought about something and you take too much notice of that and then manifest that to occur, you know?

Speaker 2:

even if it's just been an instant. I understand what you're saying. Yeah, so. Yeah, it's the first one. Yeah, so we are deeply intuitive or knowing beings. How would we describe ourselves If we were to break ourselves down? We are intelligence. We don't have intelligence. We are intelligence.

Speaker 2:

That means that in every moment streaming through us is in a very complex system of sense, perception, feeling, cognition, sensing in our body, in abstract ways, we are being delivered, we are receiving information about what is happening in this moment, right now. That is the nature of what we are, and it's only that we've been conditioned into ignoring this and utilizing the mind and everything that we imagine reality is and operating from this place, despite the fact that we're having this experience in the body. Imagine reality is and operating from this place, despite the fact that we're having this experience in the body and the heart, and we're having all of these feelings, but we just ignore them. That's not happening. I'm not feeling that, I'm not noticing this, I'm not noticing that, and then a terrible thing happens. Why did that happen? It was, like you know, the writing was on the wall. The writing was always on the wall for us, and you're noticing the writing on the wall a lot more these days. It's like what do you know? I felt that. And now you're asking the question did I just manifest this bad experience or was I intuiting that something was coming? We always err on the side of acknowledging that we are intuiting what was coming. And when you ask yourself why did I not listen to that? Answer the question. Don't just ask it in sort of frustration God you idiot, why didn't I bloody listen to that? It's like okay, answer the question. Why did you not listen to it?

Speaker 2:

And what will be revealed is a tendency or a habit of ignorance. What you'll notice is oh, I don't give much credence to my intuition, the experience of knowing something I operate from here, or I want to ignore that, because I really wanted that thing to happen, because I'm really attached to it, because if it doesn't happen, I'm going to be really disappointed. And then I'm going to feel insecure and uncertain about myself again, because we invest so much of our identity and our sense of self in the acquisition of things, the fruition of circumstance, the acquisition of partnership, love, intimacy, wealth, accolades, opportunity, everywhere Because we are. When we are not in touch with ourself, we are, by condition, insecure. We don't feel a sense of security in ourself, we are unsure of ourself, we are doubting ourself and we are governed by a kind of anxiety that makes us ignore this higher intelligence in us and go no, stay the path. We've got to make this thing happen, and invariably we lead ourselves into all kinds of holes and wonder how the heck we got there.

Speaker 2:

Can anybody relate to this? Of course you can, and so, in the process of learning to meditate and expanding awareness deeper into ourself, what we are liberating is the mechanism of knowingness. Remember, we don't have knowingness, we don't have intelligence, we are intelligence. What we are made up of is intelligence.

Speaker 2:

It's a very interesting thing to ponder. We cannot separate ourselves from it, it's just in us, and so the only task at hand is to remove the conditioning that has led us to believe that whatever it is that I'm feeling Inside about what's going on cannot be trusted. We have to break that conditioning, and so when you notice that you're intuiting something and you're like, hmm, I thought I knew that was going to happen, to go all right, piece of data, write it down. I, next time I get that sense, I'm going to pay more attention and see and say it out loud. I've got a feeling about this. Let's see, and you just observe, and then at least you're ready for the calamity You're like well, I kind of knew this was happening, so it won't be such a shock to you.

Speaker 1:

Well, I'll give you like a good example of what happened was I think you're aware of it already.

Speaker 1:

but, um, but yeah, went to a function and and it was a shoes off and and I put my shoes at the door and as I I kind of walked up there and I looked all around and I went, I've just got like a bad feeling about taking my shoes off and leaving them here, like I just don't want to leave them here. But you know, shoes off party, they're going there. So I got them and I kind of put them right up over in the corner and sort of out of sight a little bit. Anyway, so, yeah, gone, and not even a similar pair left that was accidentally kind of like left, and some of mine were taken.

Speaker 1:

So it seems that someone upgraded it. Well, it left me with nothing. So I walked home barefooted literally and and you know, and and and it got me going so much because I just thought I knew that was gonna happen. It was like I just I had that feeling and I was kicking myself that I didn't act on it, but I kind of did a little bit yeah like enough, but just not enough yeah and um and yeah and anyway.

Speaker 1:

So it was. It was a little thing, but but it was it kind of it kind of evoked a lot of like anger because like I kind of knew it was all happening and I just didn't. I just wasn't proactive enough at doing it well, here's.

Speaker 2:

Here's the thing that will give you some peace. If you're sensing that it was going to happen, you could have hid your shoes under a rock. The chances are someone might have been sitting on that rock and go oh, there's a pair of shoes under here. Oh, I like these and take them anyway. It's called karma. We can't control what's coming, you know, and what we start to detect as we move into this higher state of intelligence is the karma that's coming, and this is the compassion structured within the universe. It's like, hey, there's a wave coming. We're just giving a little heads up.

Speaker 2:

The writing is always on the wall. Whenever there's a big thing that happens, there is always an opportunity to detect it. Whether we do or not is another story, but if we were to reflect back, there is always a way that we can make sense of everything that's happened. Big things, small things. We can make sense of it. It's like, oh okay, because generally what it does is it leads us somewhere. Our karma always is leading us.

Speaker 2:

We think of karma as bad. It's not. It's the universal corrective services agency that is designed to just keep you on the freeway, because we can get lost very easily. Karma is there to guide us, to support us, and when something happens, that is what we would consider unfortunate, you know, just keep paying attention. That happened for a very good reason to lead you to the next experience of moving deeper in yourself.

Speaker 2:

Always, it's a non-punitive universe. The divine is not punishing. It is compassionately guiding and leading, and sometimes we need or in this instance it was, you know, but sometimes it's right and but it becomes the thing that causes like wow, I'm alive and and the only thing to be done there is to go. All right, great, interesting, I noticed, I noted it. Let's see if I can note it again sometime, because this is an indicator of moving into higher states of consciousness. Don't waste any time being angry with yourself or them or whatever. It's like oh, that had to happen, that was always going to happen. I just sensed it was coming, and if it was coming and you were clever enough to avoid it in that moment, it had happened in some other moment. The karma has to come. It has to come and we welcome it.