WHY WE MUST COURT INTUITION FOR OUR ADVANCEMENT

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 number of 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.