07-16 Intuition

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Hello, my name is Paul, and I am the voiceover for a ministry provided to you by Jim Pugh at God is Government called Your Daily Bread, taken from Christ's teaching of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6, verse 11. This is a daily devotion ministry focused not only on uplifting Scripture, but Scripture that will grow your spiritual connection with Christ. We hope that you receive these devotions to uplift you, encourage you, but most importantly, advance your knowledge base of the Holy Scriptures. Today's focus discussion will be on intuition. We have been taught all our lives that humans had five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. However, our physical body has many more than just these five. We have internal and external sensory organs that produce awareness of the world inside of us and those of the world around us. It is these sensory organs that tell us whether we are moving down the right path. Some call this the narrow path, or the wrong path, some call this the wide path. What is the definition of senses? According to Webster, its definition is to perceive by the senses, to be or become conscious of sense danger, grasp, comprehend, to detect automatically, especially in response to a physical stimulus, such as light or movement. We have been taught that we have a sixth sense of intuition or intuitive power. Scientists have told us that this intuitive power is unlike the five senses of sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell. Our intuitive power remains hidden and out of reach from the outward physical body. In an article written by Niranjan Seshadri, titled The Power of Intuition, why is it so rare? He tells us the following. In moments of extreme clarity and present awareness, we may suddenly get an answer to a burning question that has failed to come via the rational thought process. Such intuitive perception bypasses the sensory-nervous system and the intermediary step of conscious thought. There is a lot we don't know about our interiority that lies beyond the mind, including the power to intuit. Logic lives within the framework of the conscious thought and is linked to the information gathered through the five senses, sourced either directly or indirectly. Through logic, we cannot explain or explore the sixth sense of intuition. Evolution of individual consciousness passes through three steps: that of instinct, intellect, and intuition. Our brain has an ancient part called the hindbrain and a modern part called the forebrain. The former is related to instinctual responses, and the latter is responsible for intellectual activities. Research on the areas of the brain linked to intuitive perception is ongoing. An instinctual reaction may follow a set pattern and has a physical, physiological, and psychological footprint. Intellect may or may not follow a pattern and works on the mental layer of our being and not on the physical and physiological ones. Intuition is beyond the boundaries of the material, physiological, and psychological layers. Intuition is highly subjective, coming in a flash and disappearing just as quickly. Intuitive observations cannot be consciously called upon or stored. If our awareness is not in the present, we may not even register information coming through the portal of intuition. More choiceless and more present is our awareness, more accessible is this portal. Intellectual observations develop over time, can be stored, studied, and transferred via oral or written form. Instinctual behavior comes through an impulse that is triggered by something external, and it is a lower brain function. The mind may not necessarily be involved. The so-called gut feeling is something that many of us may have experienced more than once. The mind is quick to pounce on a gut feeling and offer its analysis and commentary. We then start to weigh the pros and cons, which requires the cognitive thinking process to take over. The slow ringer of logic keeps the intuitive faculty rudimentary. Perhaps the most famous documented example of intuitive ability is that of the Indian mathematician, Srinivas Ramanujan, 1887 to 1920. He came up with complex new mathematical formula without involving preceding steps of logical thought to get his derivations. The right milieu is needed for the spark of intuition to ignite the mind with new insights. The mind of an average human being has a turbid quality related to the constant movement of thoughts. These thoughts may be essential for our daily interactions with the world, but they form a screen which limits our perceptive ability. They are like low-hanging clouds that obscure the view of a blue sky, the sun, moon, and the stars. When the movement of thoughts ceases, the mind takes on a transparent quality. Since intuition comes from the inside and not through information derived from the world through the five senses, it is reasonable to conclude that a clear and empty mind is a requirement to receive such insights. There is no defined pathway or coursework to enhance this potential ability of extrasensory perception. Looking at the sheer complexity of the human body and the near magical quality of the mind, the body's invisible companion, it is hard to believe that using the body and the mind for deriving enjoyment through the five senses is all there is to life. Like the electromagnetic spectrum of energy that pervades the entire physical universe, perhaps there is a much broader spectrum to the world of consciousness. We are accustomed to the ordinary waking state of consciousness. The five sensory organs can access this state. Just as we need specialized instruments to study and utilize portions of the electromagnetic spectrum not accessible to the five senses, perhaps intuition is the natural instrument which can help us reach subtler realms of consciousness. The waking state may be thought of as densely encapsulated consciousness. Density comes from the information contained in thousands of thoughts, which take up the mind's energy. In our conscious perception, information contained in thoughts is like a low-hanging fruit on a tree. We pick, taste, and fill ourselves with streams of information. Every thought has a shell, which serves as a finite boundary dividing its constituent information from other thoughts. This shell that encapsulates information is perhaps reusable energy, which is unrelated to the contents that come into our conscious perception. The thinking process is quite organized. All information that passes through the mind, even stray bits and pieces, come as discrete thoughts. Just as passports may be required to cross borders between different countries, information that comes in from the outside cannot enter the mind without the aid of a separate shell of energy. That shell plus the information become thoughts with which we interact. Every thought has a time and place context, and this helps with the cataloguing of information for later retrieval. If we remove the limitations posed by this encapsulated consciousness, we may open up the field of the mind. With every thought, we have a choice: holding on or letting go. When we hold on to an idea, it contaminates our awareness and creates localized pools of conditioning in which awareness swirls. The more we entertain certain choices, the deeper are the grooves they make in the mind. Like an antique gramophone player that renders music using a needle that tracks grooves on rotating disks, through our conditioning we play out the same life patterns day in and day out. Nothing new or unique comes out of such living. Intuition is virtually non-existent in a mind that is highly conditioned. In such a mind, the noise of conditioning drowns out the soft notes of intuition. Letting go involves not succumbing to the temptation of choice. Observation without choice breaks long-standing grooves of conditioning, which strengthen encapsulated consciousness. While logic-driven intellect is like taking one step after another, intuition is like spreading wings and effortlessly traveling great distances. Just like wind aids a bird that spreads its wings as it's higher into the sky, choiceless awareness is the wind that carries us on the wings of intuition into deeper reaches of our being. Being choiceless and aware is the stepping stone to the freedom of an intuition-guided existence. What do the scriptures tell us about our sense and senses? There are over 250 uses of the word sense and over 20 using the word senses in scripture. We have provided a few to see how they are used. Genesis 2.25 NKJV. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. They had sense of shame. God was talking about the people. NKJV. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Genesis 11, 9, NKJV. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. God took away the sense of the people language. Deuteronomy 4. NKJV. Therefore be careful to observe them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. Understand is the same as sense. 1 Kings 8 47. NKJV. Yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who took them captive, saying, We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness. Come to their senses. Proverbs 31, 18, NKJV. She perceives that her merchandise is good, and her lamp does not go out by night. She perceives is the same as senses that her merchandise is good. Luke 8, 35, NKJV. Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. Right mind is coming to one sense. How do people know that others or even themselves come to a right mind? It is through the intuitive nature of our physical body, linked into our spiritual partner. This intuitive nature was given by God to each one of humanity. If we stopped here and asked how did God give us this intuitive nature, what would your answer be? God told us that his word has been written in our hearts. In Romans 2, 12-16, NKJV. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law, for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts, accusing or else excusing them, in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. Regardless of whether or not we can read or write, or have even read or been told about God and his grace of salvation, we are inherently conditioned to know right from wrong, as we are genetically programmed through our emotional guidance system to know of God's law and how to live life without doing wrong. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of intuition. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way.