Re: OT - what is "intuition"?
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Sawfish (IP Logged)
Date: 17 May, 2021 07:05PM
Thanks for the thoughts, Dale. When I kicked off the topic I hoped to be able to tie it to other non-material phenomena, like aesthetic appreciation, and a topic you've raised, beauty.
So I'm perfectly happy broadening out the discussion.
What you seemed to refer to are instances of phenomena that, if they exist and I'm not kidding myself (a big "if") I've both heard of anecdotally, and experienced myself. I'd differentiate them from what I described (detecting falsehood, emergent immediate danger, etc.) in that it's fairly easy to see that ones I desc ribe as "intuition" may well be detected by sensing subtle signals, and that they are associated with present and immediate events.
E.g., my wife and I regularly look at real estate with intent to invest. The most dramatic instance was about 35 years ago and we were looking at a fairly grand old house built on a slope in the Lair Hill area of PDX. It was somewhat run down, and a young man in his late 20s/ear;y 30s had inherited it from a relative. He was in some sense involved in the building/contruction trades.
He was offering the house for sale and we walked around in it and at one point I asked him about any emerging structural issues that he had noticed. I asked because I, myself, had seen a bit of worrisome land slippage, but it was not near the house. He quickly responded that he was aware of none.
At the very instant I had a clear impression that he was lying. He was looking at me, but there was something about the angle of his eyes, just before he said it, that caused an almost perceptible current or thrill.
Later I asked my wife about what she thought of the guy, and she said he was likeable, but probably not truthful, and she noticed this when he spoke of the structural issues.
So nothing proved, 3 years later the house, which had been sold, was demolished, and it was possibly structural. It was not to do a rebuild, because at that time it made no real sense to do those, as it does now, in certain cases.
But it's not certain.
Now I've also experienced seemingly perceptible "emanations" or moods from certain rooms in certain houses--again, we look at *a lot* of real estate. One of them hit both of us cold (I checked with her later). It was in an otherwise extremely cheerful old plantation house just outside of Hilo, Hawaii. Everything was all fine until we went into a particular room, and it was extremely unpleasant and almost threatening. Yet there was nothing one could identify--not the decor, not darker, or any other such prominent attribute.
Out of all other such places we saw, only one other house had a similar feeling, which was narrowly associated with a specific area of the house.
There are family anecdotes from my father's side of the family concerning something like foresight or precognition. I am unsure what to make of them; they were conveyed to me almost ashamedly, as an after thought. The old folks who conveyed this to me certainly didn't think they were anything positive.
--Sawfish
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 17 May 21 | 08:00PM by Sawfish.