Life Supreme — Page 78
LIFE SUPREME 81. Premonitions are often the result of an intuitive warning. A man who has booked a flight to New York feels impelled for no apparent reason to change it for a later one. The plane on which he had first booked his passage crashes and all on board are killed. . Inventors, artists, poets, authors, scientists have been among the numerous persons throughout the ages who have testified to the miraculous power of intuition. Edison was but one of many inventors who had secrets of his discoveries come to him through an intuitive flash. It is said of Michaelangello who was one of the world's greatest geniuses and intellects that the solutions of some of his greatest works came to him while asleep; and there are numerous others who have been guided and enlightened at unexpected moments when their thoughts were at rest or even dwelling on some totally different matter. . Normally knowledge is acquired through the five senses-sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch-and is accumulated from information, memory, and experience with the aid of which reasoning is developed. Intuitive knowledge stems from a higher and independent source and is not the result of mental exercise or reasoning any more than the young squirrel which has never known a winter, nevertheless, gathers and stores a supply of nuts to provide for its nourishment well in advance of the coming cold season. Its actions are guided by instinct from a higher power and not as a result of experience, instruction, or deduction. . Knowledge of spiritual truths pertaining to matters in the spirit world may be revealed to a person through intuitive guidance. Intuition is a form of divine inspiration which has been and continues to be experienced by people of every class, culture, and faith. . PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE. This is an experience which cannot be explained by any understood natural law and is, therefore, often termed supernatural. . Such an experience is attributed to the pewer of extra-sensory perception which has the capacity of revealing things which the normal physical senses are unable to detect or explain. Examples of psychic experiences are: 1. In an apparent waking state a person clearly sees an event occuring at a distant place which is proved to have happened in the