Background

Most of the new findings outlined here were obtained at the Center for Applied Intuition, a San Francisco organization which functioned from 1977 to 1993. CAI worked with a team of "expert intuitives": individuals who had developed their natural intuitive ability into a refined skill, and could access virtually unlimited information on demand.

It all began in the early 1970s when CAI's later founder, William H. Kautz, found himself thrown into interaction with several individuals called psychics, channels, clairvoyants and healers, who sometimes generated information, both personal and impersonal, to which they could not have had prior or present access—or so it seemed. As a young scientist he responded to this challenge and soon verified some of their accomplishments. He came to the conclusion that there must exist a faculty within the human mind by which information could be obtained outside of the familiar channels of reasoning, sensing and memory.

This capacity, which had long been called intuition or innate knowing, turned out to have been recognized and used intermittently throughout the world for centuries, but it was well hidden in contemporary Western society. It was time to free it from obscurity, to try to understand how it works within the mind and, most important, to begin to apply it as a knowledge resource for aiding both personal and societal endeavors—all those that rely on new information and knowledge for their effectiveness. The pursuit of these goals took fifteen years.

CAI closed its doors in 1993 as its main programs fulfilled their experimental purpose or were taken over by commercial enterprises. Its principal research findings are reported in a published book, Opening the Inner Eye: Explorations on the Practical Application of Intuition In Daily Life and Work (available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or iUniverse). Other derived books are under preparation.