It's really heartening that so many people talk about intuition these days. I wrote a book on it almost 20 years ago. Whispers in the Silence is the name. You can find it on my website.
Most times their reference comes as an admonition. “Test it with your intuition,” or some such remark people say, usually when they're trying to feed you their own special brand of pablum to get you to see things their way.
What are they talking about?
Intuition is that sense we get that we ”know” or “get a feeling” about something going on in our reality that is generally unknowable or uncertain based on the information stored in our brains or otherwise undiscerned by the stimuli perceived by our senses.
Most of us recognize it as that voice or feeling we get that something bad is going to happen, and flashes a warning in your awareness to, “Watch out!” when danger lurks. But it goes much, much deeper than that and comes in many different forms.
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You will note that while I'm discussing intuition, this article is about the inner voice that emanates from deep inside is, from some source of intelligence and consciousness that we can only infer exists. Otherwise, why bother listening at all if it doesn't know more that we do?
What we call intuition is but one method by which this intelligence communicates with us. It's purpose seems to be to guide us through life to certain experiences, and to avoid others. But it comes in many forms beyond what we think of as intuition — conscience, synchronicity, physical vibration and mental and emotional response to name a few.
In another sense, it's like reality is talking to us, interacting with our thoughts and awareness to make sure we take from the moment whatever it was created to bring. In short, it's as if there is no meaningful separation between us as perceiver and experiencer of reality and the reality itself, all being played out for a reason we can only surmise. And the inner voice is coming from whatever source is playing this game of life through us to make sure we “win,” whatever that looks like for each of us.
This inner guidance is different from communications with angels and our guides. For me, those come in from a separate part of my energy field (usually slightly above, in front and to the right around one o'clock on my energetic dial).
Intuition and the rest of the inner voice I perceive through my heart and sometimes my head, which are often linked as one when my ego gets out of the way. It's like I have a sixth sense, not of perception but of interpretation and understanding, that colors how I interact with the world.
You get the picture. Something is talking to you. Be it controller, narrator or something else, the idea of its mere existence suggests there is more to life than we know, and to us as well.
Religions in Conflict
This is where things get dicey, for that possibility crosses into spiritual territory that is usually best avoided. That's because it triggers such strongly help beliefs over which we too often fight. Religions have been fighting their wars for centuries with no end in sight.
I see our ability to hear and act upon this inner voice as the place most religions try to take us. For it requires us to set aside our beliefs and biases and get to that state of ”no mind” that prayer, contemplation and meditation can bring. To get there requires us to walk our talk and practice what we preach about love, kindness, compassion and peace, among other things. These quiet the mind and loosen the ego’s hold on the outer world in which it lives, achieving a sort of energetic tuning within us that allows that inner source to work with and through us in our lives.
This inner alignment is not just to enhance our lives here. Rather, we’re all on the evolutionary journey of our souls (traveling the spiritual path) to dissolve our illusions of separation from source as we make our way home. The inner voice is the means of navigating that journey so we keep moving forward rather than getting stuck in the quagmire in which reality entraps us.
Yes, I know this view is just another form of dogma that can never be proven, at least while embodied here. But I suggest it, not an absolute truth to be blindly accepted, but rather as a possibility to emphasize the importance of developing this skill for yourself.
If this inner voice, or even just your intuition, is something you'd like to explore, then sit quietly and immerse yourself in the silence. Don't do anything. Just be there. Allow yourself to let go of your cares and concerns, if only for that moment.
You probably won't hear or know anything. But that's okay, because it is a cumulative effect. What you're doing in the silence is clearing away the dross so that when that inner voice decides to speak, you can hear it. Whether you do what it asks is up to you.
There are many applications of intuition and the inner voice to life. Some you'll find in the various sections of the Substack. These are only available, however, when you let go of what you think you know and open yourself to living in a new way. That way has many permutations, and you'll have to find the one that's best for you. Trust that the voice will show you the way.
God bless you indeed. Go with love.