HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR INTUITION - PART VI

Several people asked questions, but all the questions 
seemed to center around three themes.

QUESTION - How can I really tell if it's my intuition or 
my imagination?

ANSWER - Your intuitive mind is unemotional. It's 
neutral and doesn't judge anything as good or bad. 
Your intuitive mind is non-assertive. It never gets 
aggressive or urges you to do something.

Your imaginative mind is emotional. It asserts 
itself and dominates your thoughts. More than 
anything, your imaginative mind is excited about 
what you're thinking. It judges things as good or 
bad and encourages us accordingly.

As a rule, it your thoughts are calm and peaceful 
that could be your intuition. But if your thoughts 
are exciting and energetic, it can't be your intuitive 
mind that's speaking. The other thing is you'll 
always have a peaceful "knowing" when it's your 
intuitive mind that's speaking.

QUESTION - How do you know your imagination 
is always the future? Can't you imagine the past?

ANSWER - As a rule, our imagination takes us into 
our possible futures and our subconscious mind 
accurately remembers our past. But, yes, we can 
play tricks on ourselves and imagine false memories. 

We can also imagine other possibilities than what 
actually happened. Mystics would argue these 
imaginings are possible future events in our lives.

QUESTION - How does intuition manifest in 
different people?

ANSWER - Good question. Intuition manifests 
as our sixth sense as Clairsentience (knowing) 
and this is attributed to the Element Spirit. But 
it can also manifest as a higher vibration of any 
of our five senses. These five higher senses are:

Clairvoyance (sight) [Fire] 
Clairaudience (sound) [Water] 
Psychic Olfactory (smelling) [Air] 
Psychic Tasting (taste) [Air] 
Psychometry (sensing) [Earth]

The notes inside the [brackets] are my own 
theories about the dominant Element working 
through the individual at that time. It seems 
psychic olfactory and tasting come together 
most of the time. The others seem to appear 
separately one-at-a-time.

As human beings we have two higher minds which 
reside above our intuition. Think of these three 
minds as a three-layer wedding cake. Our Intuitive 
Mind forms the base of this cake. The top layer 
is our Receptive Mind and in-between is our 
Conscience. Above this three-tier cake and 
surrounding it in all directions forever is the Mind 
of God.

How insignificant our little Receptive Mind seems 
to be! But the ancients called this the Mouth of 
God and the considered it the most precious 
thing in God's creation. For this is the mouth 
through which God speaks individually to each 
of us. All we have to do is become receptive 
and receive.

What we receive from God we filter through our 
Conscience. This is our Free Will. This is 
where we decide what's right or wrong for us. 
This is where we corrupt the "Word of God" 
and turn it around for our own purposes.
What we send to God we send through this 
filter and it filters out all the negativity, deceit, 
deception, untruth and falsehood that's in us. 
The truth is we can deceive ourselves, and we 
do it all the time, but our Conscience won't let 
us deceive our Maker.

But that's O.K. because God accepts us for 
who and what we are just as parents accept 
their own children. But this is theology and 
we won't go there.

We can travel through our Intuitive Mind into 
our Conscience and observe our five lower 
minds at work. We can see our Corporal 
Mind (Unconscious) controlling our body. 
We can read our history (Akashic Record) 
in our Subconscious Mind.

We can follow the threads of countless futures 
in our Imagination. We can watch our Rational 
Mind solve the problems of our life. And, we 
can see the faultless activity of our Intuitive 
Mind. We can see all these things and we 
can also look up and see our Receptive Mind 
connected to the Universe. We can look up 
and see the Mouth of God.

Here in our Conscience we can change the 
attitudes that color our concept of right and 
wrong. We can remove our prejudices and 
we can learn to love unconditionally. We 
can be "reborn" as a new person.

We can float up into our Receptive Mind and 
become "enlightened." We can "know" God. 
We can watch the Divine Light flowing down 
through the Mouth of God, nurturing our Mind 
and Body and flowing out through us back 
into the Universe.

We can learn to control that light. But that's 
another discussion for another time.

The ultimate answer to the question: "How do 
we know we're in our Intuitive Mind instead of 
our Imagination?" is "Go to your Conscience 
and you'll know." Looking down from above 
you can see how all of your lower minds are 
working and what each one is doing.

The goal of meditation is enlightenment and 
that's attained when you reach your Receptive 
Mind. The Universal Rule governing this is 
that you will ultimately attain that which you 
seek. Just keep seeking.

For now, attain meditation, open your intuitive 
mind and use it. That's the path to spiritual 
enlightenment and it's the path to being an 
outstanding tarot reader.

Next week we'll start something new. 

Namaste, 
John 
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