“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
~ Albert Einstein
Our civilization today is largely devoid of fundamental spiritual meaning. It is almost as if that meaning has been stripped from us, and we are left to float through a terrain that is at once vacuous, cold, and empty. For a world without spirit is the world of the machine - and the world of the machine is a world without sentience, empathy, and intuition - the highest gifts of human kind.
We have long been severed from our wisdom traditions and the cradle of the sacred. Along side this severing has come the full division from the wisdom of our intuitive experience, which is simply not valued without our civilization.
Within the world and culture that we have created, the intellect and rational mind rules supreme. They represent the pinnacle of success within our society. A linear mind, one that is highly capable of regurgitating information, following rules and structures, and falling in line well, is celebrated, while the mind of “the dreamer” is often diminished, belittled, and placed in a subservient position. This is evidenced by the ways we rear and teach our children, and is perfectly demonstrated by our standard education systems. These systems serve to create obedient citizens who are able to enter into a work force which is based upon the structure of the machine itself, and is at once soulless and devoid of the most basic ingredients of vitality.
In direct opposition to this soulless and disembodied experience is the land of intuition. The very experience of intuition is rooted in bodily intelligence, health, and the world of the five senses. Our intuitive life is actually born from the fundamental connection to bodily wisdom and sensation through the five sense organs - eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. Our embodied and clear connection to these organs gives way to physiological signals that are imbued with information from our environment and the worlds that surround us - both visible, and invisible. Well functioning nervous and endocrine systems then serve to further support the instrument of the wisdom body.
When we enter into the world of the wisdom body and the land of intuition - we enter into a world that is multidimensional, cyclical, symbolic, and rooted in the incredible and layered language of archetype which gives way to mythological experience. The language of archetype is a language born from the energetic templates from which we emanate, and includes the five elementals that correspond directly into the getaways of the five senses.
Each of these senses has a higher sense perception. In the cosmology of Yoga these are called Siddhis, but they are understood to exist within every mystery wisdom tradition. As our sense organs expand through the process of embodied intuition and the deepening connection of spirit into matter, we evolve along side these expanded sense perceptions - which are unique to each individual. Through this mysterious and intuitive process, we become more of who we are.
Personal experience with embodied intuition and the expansion of the sense organs brings us closer towards the very pulse of the wisdom body, which is at once beautiful, mysterious, limitless, and intuitive. It is the land of great healing, the land of poetry, the land of dance and sacred movement, the land of sacred geometry and high mathematics, the music of the spheres, and the land of spirit.
The doorway of intuition is the portal through which we as human beings are able to commune, once again, with that aspect of ourselves which has been so terribly lost and forgotten within our current civilization. The expansion of the intuitive experience brings us home, into the embodied majesty of the living spirit. Once one drinks from this cup, it is rare to return back to the small reality perpetuated by this world, as it is but a shadow cast on a cave wall that serves to keep us chained to our own darkness.
