How we receive and process the infinite information from the Field affects all outcomes.
I remember the first time I read in Solomon Speaks on Reconnecting Your Life by Dr. Eric Pearl and Frederick Ponzlov, that instinct is “the sum of all our existences”, or to paraphrase, the source of all of our knowledge and therefore that which could always be trusted. I stared in disbelief at the page. I had only come to understand that I had to trust my intuition above all else as my guiding light out of any potential darkness. It had taken me a couple of years for me to even accept this, and it really didn’t mean much until I had immersed myself in the production of a paranormal documentary and came face to face with the unexplainable. My reaction to the words in the book was such that I had to put it down and walk away. I felt indignant, confused, then puzzled by how strongly my emotions were about this. Why did I get so rattled? I decided to put aside what was quickly becoming an inner conflict and do some research.
Most of us have been conditioned to see instinct as the base emotion that controls primal needs, or just as an instrument of survival in a fight-or-flight situation.
We have learned to pit instinct against a “nobler” version, intuition, in our drive to divide and analyze. Instinct is regarded as a key element that points to our animal origins, and intuition is described as the gift of spirit. Intuition is said to arrive from a hidden wisdom/knowledge that suddenly becomes available as we face the unknown. Some call it the 6th sense.
While instinct has somehow become a synonym of all that is essentially male, intuition has a long-standing association with the female principle. The Sun and the Moon. Yin and Yang. Or as Shakespeare explores in “The Tempest”, Caliban vs Ariel – animal vs spirit.
But what if instinct and intuition were exactly the same thing, just “read” differently by multiple points in our body? What if it’s the actual physical aspect of connecting with it that determines how we interpret the information we’re receiving? I found myself considering this as I read anecdote after anecdote about “reacting on instinct” and “listening to intuition”.
I saw how similar were the descriptions of the way people interpreted what their bodies were feeling at the time they first realized they had a “feeling” about something being imminent, different or wrong.
Instinct was most commonly described as a “gut-feeling” – it is typically felt somewhere in the body, particularly in the torso. With intuition the meaning gets partially interpreted into a message processed in a way that somehow fleshes out what the alert is about. Most people who follow their intuition will say that they listen to it, even when there are no actual words coming through. I also noticed that instinct-based action seemed to be more accurate than intuition-based one by a large margin, and the reason may be that while the first one is an instant sum of all data, the second one requires the extra step of interpretation, as if the mind required extra proof of the situation at hand.
I visualized a message encoded in a single frequency that the body receives. First attempt of delivery occurs where instinct is noted. When that receiver, instinct, is blocked or not trusted the next receiver, intuition, kicks in with an interpretation of what is being received. I did a little experiment on myself.
We all know there are certain things we really shouldn’t be eating, right? Particularly things we have allergies to. I set out to find out if instinct would keep me safe from my bad eating choices.
I went to the supermarket and randomly started selecting food items from the ready-to-eat displays. I placed my awareness on the RH frequencies and just held the item without reading the ingredients. I noticed that after 6 or 7 seconds I would get a mild to strong vibration in my chest area – an alert- with some items while no reaction at all with others. I noted the ingredients of those items that had given me that physical reaction and continued to pick up all sorts of food items. I then moved to the packaged food section and tried to do it with different things, again noting reaction versus ingredients. I had the same results, even after grabbing things with my eyes closed! I satisfied that that somehow there was a pattern after all. A few weeks later I was in a hurry doing my grocery shopping and simply grabbed items that I had come to recognize as “non-reactives” from my little experiments. Once home though, as I prepared to cook dinner, I was about to open a bag of pre-washed greens when all systems came on: the vibration in my chest plus a quickly passing sensation of feeling sick to my stomach.
I stared in disbelief. I had picked this item multiple times before without a single negative reaction. My mind was momentarily confused, this item should be good to eat, right? But my entire body riled up against it.
Startled, I searched how to describe the warning I was feeling, and I said out loud “It’s salmonella.” Without further hesitation I just trashed the bag, I was so shaken I didn’t even considered returning it to the store for a refund! Later on there was a recall for this item, apparently it had become contaminated during processing with a chemical. Suddenly I became aware that somehow I had accumulated knowledge about food in a non-intellectual way, on an instinctive level, and whatever information was contained in it was been communicated actively and not necessarily from memorizing which ingredients were good or not for me based on my previous exercise of touching them. And when I hesitated to trust the first 100% accurate reaction to the item – my instinct – it got interpreted in a secondary safety measure, intuition. The attempt to decode and translate the message yielded “salmonella” when in fact there was a chemical involved, and the accuracy of the message dropped to 90%. Something is invariably lost in translation.
I’d like to clarify at this point that we shouldn’t confuse intuition with premonition – each operates on an entire different information frequency.
The margin for error in my experience was truly minimal: it was a potential poisoning, even if the agent was different. Yet it can become even less accurate when the message gets more complicated. Or worse, second-guessed.
Suppose you meet a man at a business network event. As far as you can see the guy is well-liked, looks sharp, has a nice smile. Yet something makes you uneasy about him, and this entry-level message through your instinct is clear: stay away from this person. You hesitate, there’s nothing about this guy that should be alarming, so the message is redelivered in a way that approximates what the instinct is saying: maybe you get reminded of a bad relationship, or of a magician with cards up their sleeves. Still you brush it aside, and the more the hesitation continues the quicker the mind takes over the process and starts second-guessing it and justifying (“I like magicians, I like card tricks, there’s nothing wrong with this guy reminding me of magic”), until you no longer are aware of the signal. In hindsight, after a making bad business deal with the man, you might remember that you did have misgivings to start with.
Ultimately I realized that neither instinct nor intuition are particularly male or female traits, nor that they should be polarized as they have been. It seems to me they work in tandem, helping us to “act” and “see” according to data that we are not consciously aware of.
Yet, the more I consciously engage in recognizing and trusting my instinct the more at ease I am about everything I do. And it’s good to know that if I ever am too distracted to heed my instinct my intuition will kick in to try deliver the message, even if less accurately. Instinct and intuition are, ultimately, key to navigating the subtle energies all around us, and a reminder that there’s more to our human experience than what logic can explain.
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