April 14, 2013
-
E.S.P.
We humans have long had an unconscious envy of the animals that maintained superior senses over us. Most of our daydreams as a child in one way or another always involve a super ability. Things like superior pheromone saturation being popular for many teenagers alone. The list is vast when we look into the literature through the ages. Even outside of normal mythology we find in the religious texts and lore examples of super sense and ability. One example is saint Agnes, who was claimed to have breasts that would seduce any man. They apparently were so powerful that they had to hack them off when she was imprisoned, so the guards wouldn’t be placed under their power. this is real, this did happen, one super sense of humanity is the insistent nonsense we partake of in our history. glibness aside, there is this bizarre necessity to have super sense in our imagination.long have we pondered both the validity of it as well as the essence of it. one of the first things i had learned about relationships with people is that the imagination is an impossible foe. if, a person is against another human being’s imagination, it is a hopeless task. reason being, the imagination is not bound by physical law, it can evolve and adapt beyond the original source, sometimes to a point of the original source not even being recognizable. we all do this, it is part of being the ‘tool’ ape. we fashion models in our minds. everyone is a creator of sorts. so the act of ‘knowing’ things beyond the present evidence or environment , since it remains unfathomable, logically, has always been regarded as a super power and often times providence of magical practices. be they religious leaders or arcane masters.
humans, are fascinating as an animal. we are like sharks, in dark water. with only our sense of peculiarity to guide us as we circle around trying to identify and assess aspects of our selves. such is the case here. the fortune tellers, the seers and modern clairvoyants all have one thing in common, the fact they are iconic of a element of human existence that is recognized by and until now has defied explanation. we of course do not have the entire spectrum figured out, but rest assured we have a working concept. the first thing though, in keeping with the spirit of this topic, is to refer to probably the one power or sense that defies explanation. we do actually have one. it is a phenomena, which we can not for the life of us, figure out. it is called intuition. i don’t wager it is uniquely human, but i would also conjecture it is hard to recognize in animals. communication after all plays a large part in all the supposed super sense and abilities. there is however a unique version of it , that does surely exist in humans. as it is lent to us by our rational thought. where we can go, in our abstract nature with the models of the universe that we each have at our disposal, for comparison, we seem to be able to deride seemingly impossible knowledge from incredibly unrelated facts.
it is funny. most people would never place intuition among the favorites, the list as follows would contain esp,precognition,clairvoyance,premonition,remote viewing, mind over matter and many other abilities that we claim or sense, as it were , we have. of these all i can safely devise a pretty good outline of what may be happening. the power of unconscious suggestion is a true force in human populations. it can even create stuff like deja vu, serendipity and that weird sense of going to the right place at the right time for the right reason. all of these can be systematically explained effectively, by suggestion and unconscious environmental stimulus. the mind is an information hungry simbiot when it comes to the world. you may say it is like a glutton who will continue to eat when full.
but intuition? it defies everything. it literally can come from nothing. it is like a knowledge that exists instantly and if followed always proves to be right. we have saying that explain this, always telling someone to follow thier intuition when a choice is presented.
examples of intuition : knowing how to use a machine, never having seen it before. knowing how to recognize a language structures and possibly more, never having seen it before. a large part of the old farmer tradition relied on intuition.knowing how the animals and the environment interplay. much of the almanac as it existed in prehistory was built on various forms of intuition.intuition itself is easy to follow, it is just learning how to listen to it. that apparently is the problem. we have another name for an aspect of it, common sense. which, many jokingly would agree is a rare commodity. yet, it does exist in all of us. it can be a future projection, a past insight or present sensation. all of these can more can be the main part of an intuitive response. yet, what it is, technically, still remains unanswered. the large problem is the fact that there is no indicator at all. there is usually, no way the information unconsciously could have reached the performer. they just somehow knew what to do.
so, you cant guess the blackjack table and be kicked out after being accused of cheating, but you can intuitively know how long you can stay around before they kick you out.(though in that aspect i would postulate that the dealer is sending signals). is it a true survival trait? yes. in fact that is why it defies explanation. it is a sense, that we can only see through it’s eyes. therefore we can not extract much from it. it just happens. we have social intuition, female intuition being famous. it seems to be, at best a state of mind. where it comes from is beyond present rational discourse.
the present biggy for us, is called esp. we are told that we have that as a primarily latent thing. it was claimed proven by a mathematician. however the story of that is somewhat jaded. they only talk about the odds of getting something right an extraordinary number of times. they do not however explain that if a person gets something wrong an x number of times , this too is esp. this is kind of funny. if you guess say 62 cards wrong out of hundred, then you have esp, according to the math. when we learned about suggestion and body language. we tried to eliminate the aspects of the test that would contain conceivably an element of those fallacies. things became more and more inconclusive. however, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. intuition would have told you it was flawed from the start.
