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..:: Intuition ::..
By
Alan Schneider
The relationship between the Soul
and God is always the one of greatest importance for human
beings, and almost never the one that gets the priority of our
attention! This is due in large part to the difficulty in attaining a
clear perception of first, the Soul, and then God, in our waking
consciousness, distracted as we are by the great din of the senses and
material confusion on the Physical Plane. This difficulty can be
reduced to one consideration – both the Soul and the Logos must
be perceived intuitively in the realms where they exist –
beyond the ego, senses, and physical experience occurring on the
Physical Plane. Intuition has been called “The Voice of the Soul”. How
does this voice speak to us, and how does it differ from the many other
“voices” that register in our consciousness? How can intuition be
recognized?
Well, to begin with,
intuition is definitely not the voice of logic. Logic is purely
analytical, grounded in the evidence provided by the physical senses,
and has developed to serve the ego as its primary function in
existence. Logical thought is the mechanism through which we attempt to
gain a superficial understanding of the Physical Plane of Manifestation,
customarily for the purposes of manipulating subsequent events. Logic
manifests in successively higher stages on the first three Chakras of
the Chakra System. At the level of Muladhara, it functions as a
survival mechanism. Concerning Svadhisthana, it assists us in
seeking a mate, or mates, perhaps only in the service of Left Hand
Tantra (superficial sexuality), and hopefully in more authentic
and sincere partner searches that ultimately result in the creation of a
loving marriage and family. At the level of Manipura, logic
assists our career evolution and socio-economic development, sometimes
appropriately through well-earned and deserved promotion, and often
through deception and the negative manipulation of the social system
around us. Logic is fundamentally amoral, as is the ego it
serves, and this is why it has no function beyond Manipura.
And Intuition is also not the
voice of physically grounded, that is, physiological, emotional
response. Such responses include anger, fear, remorse, depression, joy,
ecstasy, passion, and other major mood and mind sets. As pleasant or
unpleasant as these states of organismic arousal may be, they are
definitely not properly intuitive in character – no appreciable
enhancement of perception is present. Although intuition may be
associated with emotion, it is not emotional per se. The plain fact is
that powerful emotional states can and will interfere with
intuitive perception.
As we Ascend to the level of
Anahata, the Heart Chakra, and the Seat of the Soul,
another mechanism of knowing becomes assessable – this mechanism
is intuition – this is where intuitive perception comes
into play in consciousness. Why? Because specifically at this level of
spiritual development we have begun to know the Logos through the
Soul, and the Logos is the source of all higher perception,
including intuition. Personal human intuition is about learning
to directly recognize and respond to the wishes and messages of God, as
opposed to listening and responding to the wishes and messages of the
ego. This frequently becomes the subject of a life (and lives)
long battle within consciousness, and the remainder of this essay will
suggest ways of distinguishing between (among?), the self-oriented
voices of personal involvement, and the intuitive Voice of the Great
Self.
Now, the Voice of
Intuition is not quite the same thing as the Still, Small
Voice of the Conscience, although they can occur
simultaneously regarding an issue. The function of the Conscience,
which also resides within the Heart Chakra, functions as a moral compass
for subsequent action – the voice of Intuition describes the spiritual
essence of a condition as the best measure of possible subsequent
action. Sometimes, these are functionally the same message – at others,
they may differ markedly. Intuition is about knowing the Truth –
Conscience is about responding to the Truth. Without good
intuitive perception, the best intentions of the Conscience can still
result in a journey down the proverbial Road to Hell for the ignorant
and ill-informed.
How can we know and
acknowledge the Intuitive Voice of the Soul? Clearly, in part (as has
been described thus far in this essay) by knowing what voice it is
not. It is not the voice of logic. It is not the voice of emotion.
It is not even the voice of conscience. Although it is not a feeling, it
is still “felt“ (i.e. experienced) and sensed in consciousness.
And although it is not a still, small voice, it does tend to be quiet,
and reside in the background of conscious perception. This essay is also
about bringing the intuitive voice out of that background, and into the
foreground, of conscious perception, and of making it the first
process of understanding and action. So, understanding what is
not the intuitive voice is certainly very helpful!
Intuitive perception is
enhanced by meditation, and the other processes that tend to develop a
quite internal condition of consciousness. A mind full of noise is not
well suited to recognizing the Truth! I firmly believe, based upon
decades of experience and experimentation, that intuition is the
perception of the Logos emerging into individual human experience
through the portal of the Soul, and meditation opens that portal.
The high fidelity perception of the many layers of the human Aura is
only possible from the level of Anahata onward and upward, and that mode
of perception is a significant element of intuitive knowledge. What we
experience intuitively is the spiritual vibration of the Aura resonating
in our field of consciousness. In a word, what we experience
intuitively is the Soul of another person or condition, its spiritual
essence, radiating in the Cosmic Mind of the Logos. Intuition is
Soul-to-Soul direct spiritual communication. This process is not
rational, or even necessarily sane per se, but nonetheless
remains the essence of knowledge existing beyond tangible information
and mental data processing.
If I am feeling stressed out,
irrationally prejudiced, emotionally imbalanced, attracted to something
or someone for personal motives, or feeling pressured to avoid
something or someone for other personal motives, these factors are
danger signals from the point of view of achieving valid intuitive
perception – they will individually or collectively almost certainly
distort, invalidate, interfere with, or outright block my
intuition and intuitive perception. And analysis is another
counterproductive process here. If I find myself excessively analyzing
and thinking about my motives for the experience of a given perception,
this will effectively obscure its intuitive validity. Now, this does
not mean that I should not think before I act. Action is
another matter entirely, and at the very least, the Voice of the
Conscience should be given heed, not to mention simple common sense.
Thoughtless action always creates more Karma on the Physical Plane,
while thoughtful action, particularly under Divine inspiration, releases
Karma through Dharma. This includes communication – one should not
always voice one’s legitimate intuitive concerns in social settings –
but one should always maintain them in awareness until a
Divinely inspired mode of action can be determined. If such a
course remains obscure, it is probably better to do nothing, or as
little as possible, in the mean time. Regardless of these additional
considerations, spontaneous intuitive perception should always be
the mode of choice among all the possible mental means of experiencing
the world. If one is in honest error in a given instance of intuition,
the Divine Light will reveal this to the Soul when the time is right,
and no harm will be done, provided, of course, that the admonitions
regarding our actions and their consequences noted here are taken
to Heart by the Spiritual Student.
God is Universal Creation,
sustained in Divine Love, and expressed as Divine Light. The Soul is the
human expression of that Divine Manifestation, vibrating in the Heart,
and physically expressed in conjunction with the lower three Chakras
beneath the Heart that we experience as the body and senses on the
Physical Plane. The ego is the mental focus of existence on the
Physical Plane, and serves us well as a pilot mechanism there, but the
Truth of Consciousness can only be known and communicated through
the Soul and as intuitive expression. How do I know there is a
God? Because I climbed up beyond my mind to the top of Mount
Kailasa, and met Him there, seated in Divine Meditation, and, when I
returned, He came back with me. How do I know there is a Soul within me?
Because I feel the Love of God in my Heart, and experience the Light of
Intuitive Knowledge there as well.
The faculty of intuition is
indispensable in all spiritual inquiry. Without this “knowing beyond
knowledge” we are limited to the impressions of our senses, and
interpretations of our egos, and these cannot provide the answers
to the genuinely important questions of life that we all long to know –
why am I here, what is my destiny, and most importantly, am I really
alone? Once the capacity for intuitive perception has been developed
using the guidelines suggested here, it can be used to build a spiritual
edifice within consciousness that will reach beyond our wildest
fantasies to a region of Truth that is still more
wonderful and exotic.
- With Love, Alan -
(Copyright 2009, by Alan Schneider)
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