Intuition has immensely benefited both the men of science as well as religion in equal measure. It has guided them into the achievements that has helped shape the world in countless ways, since time immemorial.
Let
us focus a bit on a young man who heard the voice of God as he was spoken to by
the Lord in the Old Testament. This is the story of Samuel as found in the book
of 1 Samuel 3: 1-10 which says. “The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word
of the Lord was rare; there were
not many visions. One night Eli,
whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in
his usual place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying
down in the house of the Lord, where
the ark of God was. Then the Lord
called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am.” And he ran to Eli
and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back
and lie down.” So he went and lay down. Again the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up
and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” “My son,” Eli said, “I
did not call; go back and lie down.” Now Samuel did not yet
know the Lord: The word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. A
third time the Lord called, “Samuel!”
And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then
Eli realized that the Lord was
calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if
he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord,
for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place. The
Lord came and stood there, calling
as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your
servant is listening.”
We
also hear from the book of 1 Kings 19 of a small still voice that
wise men call a gentle whisper. Verse 12 says, “And now the thunder ceased,
and the lightning was gone, and the earth was still, and the wind was hushed,
and there was a dead calm, and out of the midst of the still air there came
what the Hebrew calls 'a voice of gentle silence,' as if silence had become
audible."
This
small voice also described as the still voice and elsewhere as the gentle
whisper that God used to call Samuel is the same still voice that came to
Elijah after the lightning and thunder. This voice is what a lot of people call
intuition, while some people call it the voice of the soul and others call it
the sixth sense while others still call it the voice of God. This is in essence
our inner spiritual sense.
This
intuition is described elsewhere as an inner spiritual sense through which man
is opened to the direct revelation and knowledge of God, the secret of nature
and life, and through which he is brought into conscious unity and fellowship
with God.
It
is through this intuition that man is opened to the secrets of nature and life
and made to realize his deification nature and supremacy of being a son of God.
It
is, therefore, through this Spiritual supremacy and illuminations that we see
high progression with time, as knowledge continue to be accumulated through
intuition. A good example of such intuition and how it has helped advance the
human race is a new principle discovered in the1900s. This
principle called relativity theory superseded the previously accepted mechanical
theory on the basis that it overturned the
concept
of motion from Newton's day, by positing that all motion is relative.
Newtonian
world had always believed that you could catch up to anything even the tip of a
light wave if you moved fast enough. This meant that if you were in a rocket,
for example, speeding at say 90% the speed of light away from the earth, and
you fired a bullet inside the rocket which then travel at a speed of 90% of the
speed of light, the bullet traveling in the same direction with the rocket,
according to Newtonian law of
classic
mechanical theory, should be traveling at a speed of 180% the speed of light.
This meant
that the speed of the bullet would exceed the velocity of light, but the discoverer
of relativity theory, Albert Einstein after perceiving through intuition,
however, showed that the meter sticks of a clock, shortens and time slows down
as you get closer to the speed of light. He showed that the sum of these
velocities is actually close to 99% the speed of light. He was also able to
show, in this new theory, that no matter how hard you tried, you could never
accelerate beyond the speed of light, meaning that light velocity was the
ultimate speed limit in the universe.
As these
great men guided their mind ever more inwards to the tiniest and most powerful
magnitudes of reality, we witness a lot of
advances which were made during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century. For example, a physicist, Marie Curie discovered during this period
that just an ounce of a chemical element which is almost
pure-white alkaline earth metal, known as radium emitted four thousand calories
of heat per hour indefinitely, which seemed to violate the first law of
thermodynamics, which states that the total amount of energy is always constant
or conserved.
The
relativity theory discovered by Einstein in 1905 also saw such advances like
the rewriting of Einstein’s equations by Minkowski, to reveal a four- dimension
structure, which tended to link space and time into four- dimensional (length,
width, depth and time) fabric forever.
He also showed that Einstein’s equation changes in such a way that
interrelations with another simultaneously changing quantity or set of
quantities remain unchanged meaning
that it remains covariant when space and time are rotated as four dimensional
objects, giving raise to the emergence of a new principle of physics which
stated that the equations of physics must maintain the same form under a
symmetry that unified space and time also known as Lorentz transformation.
This period
may be compared to the olden days when the human race was endowed with a
successful vicissitude of visitation by angels in the old testament as well as
when the Holy Spirit was poured to men after the death of Christ in the new
testament. It is a period filled with news of men thinking about nature and
getting revelations through intuition on how nature operates.
The period
also saw such advances like Einstein’s new theory of gravity guided by intuition
after he envisioned through his thought forces and realized that if you are in
a free fall, you would not feel your own weight, a realization that impelled
him towards a theory of gravitation. This intuition made him realize that the
planets and the moon were actually in a state of free fall in their orbits
around the sun or the earth.
He also understood, again through intuition
that if you were in a rocket ship, everything inside including the floor and
all equipments inside, falls at the same rate giving the illusion that gravity
has vanished. He reasoned that this is so simply because the floor of the
spaceship is falling alongside with your body. This, however, implies that
gravity has actually just been cancelled by the falling of the rocket ship
beneath your feet, something that is known as the equivalence principle.
This
principle in which all masses fall at the same rate under the gravity became
Einstein’s intuitional foundation of a new relativistic theory of gravity,
forming a postulation behind general relativity that the laws of physics in an
accelerating frame or gravitating frames are indistinguishable. This meant that
the accelerating and gravity frames obeyed the same laws of physics.
It is just
amazing as well as intriguing how these great men used the power of their mind
through thinking as well as through imagination to propel man into such
knowledge base of nature, enabling things that would otherwise not make sense
to us to be on the contrary at the forefront in benefiting the human race,
confirming our attributes as real gods in truth and in spirit. This use of mind
has brought us to a situation where the science fiction of today is the reality
of life tomorrow.
Einstein, for
example, was also able to formulate the generalized symmetry that described
accelerations and gravity known as the general covariance through intuition. He
also found out together with another scientist known as Bose, a curious fact
about the quantum world that atoms are indistinguishable if “supercooled” to
near absolute zero; a state where all atomic movement almost ceases. At this
state, all the atoms would fall down to the lowest energy state, creating a
single, “superatom.” At this state, the atoms vibrate in what is known as the
lockstep and subtle quantum effects, usually only seen at the level of
individual atoms, but which, at this low temperatures, becomes distributed
throughout the entire condensate. An example of this kind of condensate is the
spectators at a football game who form human waves that sweep across the
stadium as they stand up and down in unison. Similarly, the atoms in what came
to be known as the “Bose- Einstein condensate” act as if everything is
vibrating in unison.
As these
theories were confirmed and continue to guide us towards more and ever more advancements
through new discoveries, we salute those brains of yesteryears that are behind
these discoveries, brains that, as we now see so clearly, were guided by
intuition through the faith of these, our pioneers.
But let us
find out the definition of this word that has become so common in my blogs-
intuition.
Intuition is defined as a thing that one knows
or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. The
word is also defined as the ability to understand something immediately,
without the need for conscious reasoning. It
is common knowledge that, you must also have a lot of faith in that, that you
consider likely through intuition for a fact.
A closer analysis
will also show that the people who helped change the world through the use of
their intuition also had a lot of faith. This is the same faith, as found in the bible, we are told that it is the
substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for. It is also a
manifestation of the things hoped for through this faith that is evidently
characterized through the earnest desire from these men to give the world pure
truths about the nature of things.
As the
concentration of their desires, through attention builds up the momentum, bound
in concentration and visualization, we see the strength of their efforts
resulting in the precision of their speculation, many years after they were
first given to the world, through theories, in new discoveries, with physicists
winning Nobel prizes by the day today, after new discoveries which are pure
manifestation of those theories, through intuition, of long time ago.
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