Intuition And The Intellect

Dear friends,

Intuition is being advocated as a means of overcoming the intellect. Why does it overcome it? Because they are different. A lot of people assume that if two principles are different, they oppose each other, and this idea is prevalent among people advocating spiritual development. It is the result of thinking in violent terms. They never want to reconcile differences.

Can we actually believe something is true because we have a feeling that it's true? One way of looking at this is to think about how the police use people with psychic abilities to help them with investigations. You can't put the evidence obtained from a psychic to a court. What the police do is to use the information the psychic gives them as a focus for concentrating their investigation. They then gather their evidence by rational deduction.

I was originally an atheist and materialist. When I heard of people having experience of the supernatural I thought they were lunatics! I came to have obsessions about female figures with power, and, in order to try to understand why, I became interested in mythology. That lead me to read the books of Robert Graves, which made me realise I was being drawn to female spirtual energy. It made me dedicated to spiritual development, and eventually to become a Madrian.

Becoming a mystic was a rational process achieved by reading books. There was nothing intuitive about it, but, if I had not been driven by an irrational obsession, I would never have read these books.

So, if you have a compulsive idea, you cannot believe that because you feel it is true, it must be true, but it is worth while thinking about it and reading books that have a bearing on it. You never know what may turn up.

May She be with you,

David.