Knowing from the Inside Out: The Gift of Intuition
The mind is a lot less important than we think it is. In our Western rationalistic society we have given pre-eminence to the operations of the cognitive processes. Of course, the rational mind has its place and value in the scheme of things. But it is not meant to be the primary way we experience reality. Feeling or sensing is the primary way to “know” anything!
The mind judges, analyzes, and compartmentalizes and thus creates a sense of separation and duality. The heart or the intuitive faculty embraces or becomes one with its object of attention. It knows it from the inside out and not from surface, outside appearances.
So, to really get to know someone or something beyond the narrow confines of your mind’s judgments, learn to quiet your mind and become one with that which you are focused on and then you will “know. “
Meditation is the key to this process of opening up the intuitive faculty.