Intuition Applications

Most of the applications of intuition carried out at the Center for Applied Intuition utilized a method of inquiry called Intuitive Consensus, in which three or more expert intuitives were interviewed independently with a list of carefully prepared questions on the chosen topic. It turned out that the effectiveness of the inquiry depended critically on the clarity, focus, precision and motivation of the questions asked; ordinary conversational modes for asking for what one wants will not do. Further dialog ensued to clarify the responses, resolve ambiguities and fill in gaps. For factual inquiries all sessions were then transcribed, and the responses sorted and compared with one another and with what was presumed to be already known beforehand.

Experience revealed that there were few if any discrepancies in the intuitives' answers so long as the questions were well formulated, unbiased, and specific, and the consequences of subsequent application were harmless. When the areas being explored were on the fringe of existing knowledge, it was often difficult to ask clearly and directly for what one wanted to know, and discrepancies sometimes arose. However, the consensual responses—those matters on which all intuitives agreed—provided valid and useful information, while the residual responses yielded alternative viewpoints and approaches, valid in their own way. In factual topics such as science, history and medicine this consensus could then be used as hypotheses for external corroboration and validation or for direct application—or simply as provocative ideas to be investigated by other means.

Personal counseling and business consulting did not usually call for a consensus, so the individual or company could incorporate the new information directly into their existing knowledge base. Fresh understanding and new perspectives could be derived and decisions could then be made.

Extensive intuitive inquiries were conducted in the following areas:

• Intuitive Counseling: Provided intimate personal counseling, both psychological and spiritual, to 1200 individuals who were seeking to understand themselves better or were confronting particular, difficult life problems.

• Intuitive Consulting: Provided extensive consulting to the presidents and CEOs of twenty Japanese companies who were seeking better solutions to their varied business problems.

• Earthquake Triggering: Determined the principal geophysical processes involved in the triggering off of earthquakes (as opposed to the long-term cause, which is already understood), and identified the appropriate measurements for assisting in the prediction of major earthquakes.

• Ancient History: Recovered the lost biographies of the Egyptian physician Imhotep (about 2650 BCE) and the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten (1370 BCE).

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Determined why babies sometimes die without apparent cause, and what can be done, if anything, to prevent SIDS or to deal with it?

• Bipolar Disorder: Explained the underlying causal mechanisms of manic depression and provided some suitable treatment guidelines for it.

• HIV and AIDS: Described an appropriate therapy for treating AIDS, and what can be learned from the presence of this disease in today's world.

• Lost Language: Recovered the unknown speech of the ancient Egyptian language, and discovered some of the unique ways in which languages were spoken in ancient times.

Further studies, not so extensive, were conducted on the effects of the moon on fluids on earth, the detoxification of nuclear waste material, the nutritive value of "live" foods, peace options in the Middle East, pregnancy and childbirth, primary school education in the U.S., and the future of Japan.

Interesting and potentially useful new information was obtained in all studies. In some cases it could be immediately and practically applied. In others it awaits further inquiry or the cooperation of individuals or organizations willing to work with it. Whenever opportunities arose to validate the new information, the results were positive and supportive. When the questioning was clear and specific no direct contradictions were encountered among the intuitives' responses.

These findings are described in detail in the book "Opening the Inner Eye." Read more »

True intuition comes from a deeper understanding that transcends evidence and proof and logic and reason, and all those tools with which we try to determine whether something is true or not—and thus whether it is important. [Neale Donald Walsch]