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Inspired by the Edgar Cayce Institute for Intuitive Studies |
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Inspired by the Edgar Cayce Institute for Intuitive Studies |
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Commentaries on Intuition: A Resource at Work An initial comment by Henry Reed This "creative imagery" approach to training and using intuition is one of the methods used, by the way, in the advanced training at the Edgar Cayce Institute of Intuitive Studies. I see a major innovation in this type of work and I have a question about it. The first innovation is the use of specific prompting imagery to elicit intuition. Asking a person to see a "door" or a "structure" uses the shaping influences of these images to help focus a person's intuition. There is also a symbolic dimension to these images. A door represents an opportunity, maybe a good one, maybe one less attractive. What is on the other side of the door? How will things work out. Many intuition exercises are very open-ended: tune in, get an image. Remote viewing works in this manner, as it must, because the process has as its goal to obtain a description of the target. In such a case, using a prompting image would be counter-productive. My question has to do with the blind procedure, that is, attempting to be intuitive without knowing what one is being intuitive about. The creative imagery technique, as well as remote viewing, and the first stage of my Intuitive Heart method, all use blind targets in the intuition evoking process. The rationale for using blind targets is that it blocks the conscious mind from thinking about the target. It presumes that the process is more "objective," as in "blind judging," where judges evaluate creative works without knowing the identities of the creators. Peer review of professional scholarly articles often use this method to prevent the reviewers from being biased by their opinions about the authors. But my question is, how do we move from requiring targets to be blind to being able to use the method for gaining intuitive guidance for our own personal needs? Lorrie shows how you can write your questions on cards, turn them over, and then do your "readings" on your questions without knowing which question you are reading. That is one way, yet it doesn't lead to your ability to get out of your own way. Getting out of one's own way, not contaminating intuition by your own hopes and fears, is one of our goals for intuition development. Edgar Cayce's idealistic program for intuition development was that we would come to "know" from within. He distinguished between methods that brought the knowledge through some kind of trick and methods that taught you the personal development necessary to set aside personal contaminants and to be able to "know." How do we make the transition from using the method as a way of tricking intuition out of the subconscious mind an learning to bring the information directly into awareness. In my Intuitive Heart Discovery Process, we have a partial solution, but I'm sure there are better ones yet to be developed. The partial solution is to begin with blind targets, and then to use it to ask about the day ahead and see how the intuitive guidance plays out. Finally, it suggests that personal confidence in the method, developed through positive feedback, together with using the "pure heart" preparatory meditation, removes the felt need to think about the target. In other words, through practice, a person learns to trust the intuitive process. This developmental sequence makes sense, yet it leaves shrouded in mystery how this confidence actually develops. We'd like to hear from you. Try the creative imagery process and see how it works for you and let us know. What do you think about this process? How have you learned to trust your intuition? To add your commentary on this article
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