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CHAPTER 1INTUITION1.1 Etymology and Definition of the term ‘
 Intuition’ 
The term
 Intuition
is
 
derived from the Latin word "
intueri
" which means "to see within."It is a way of knowing, of sensing the truth without explanations.The dictionary definition of intuition is "
quick and ready insight 
;" and "
the act or processof coming to direct knowledge without reasoning or inferring 
."Intuition can in a sense be defined as the immediate apprehension by the mind or by thesenses without reasoning. Intuition imbues one with the knowledge of things without prior knowledge or the use of reason.Intuition, for example, includes the "AH HA!" or "Eureka!" discovery or sudden mentalrevelation in which one's mind now perceives a new or different fit or solution of pieces of a puzzle or problem.It is also the ability to see an event or an object from a viewpoint of the cosmic whole,from its culmination - the seed, the flower, and the fruit in relation to the whole. All standsrevealed the hearts, the motives, and the causes of all events.
1.2 Intuition – Original and Independent Source of Knowledge
In philosophy,intuition is the power of obtaining knowledge that cannot be acquired either by inference or observation, by reason or experience. As such, intuition is thought of as anoriginal, independent source of knowledge, since it is designed to account for just those kinds of knowledge that other sources do not provide. Knowledge of necessary truths and of moral principles is sometimes explained in this way.However, it is to be noted that when a person first becomes alert to intuitive messages itmay seem disturbing not to understand the importance or unimportance of the messages. It can be quite frustrating when one gets a message, but does not get any logical reasoning along withit. Explanations usually come along with intuitive messages on a "need to know basis."
1.3 Intuition and Decision Making
Intuition is fast. We make life-and-death decisions in split seconds, when we have to, andwe are often correct. This is of course the reason Intuition evolved in the first place — itincreases our chances of survival.Intuition can encompass the ability to know valid solutions to problems anddecision making. For example, therecognition primed decision(RPD) model was described byGary  Kleinin order to explain how people can make relatively fast decisions without having tocompare options. Klein found that under time pressure, high stakes, and changing parameters,experts used their base of experience to identify similar situations and intuitively choose feasiblesolutions. The intuition is the pattern-matching process that quickly suggests feasible courses of action. The analysis is the mental simulation, a conscious and deliberate review of the courses of action.
 
The reliability of one’s intuition depends greatly on past knowledge and occurrences in aspecific area. Someone who has more experiences with children will tend to have a better instinctor intuition about what they should do in certain situations. This is not to say that one with agreat amount of experience is always going to have an accurate intuition (because some can be biased); however, the chances of it being more reliable are definitely amplified.
1.4 Actual Experience of Intuition
The intuitive impressions come in a variety of different ways namely clairvoyance,clairaudience and clairsentience.
1. Clairvoyance
(clear seeing or clear vision) is experienced when an individual discernsobjects, people, or situations, not with the physical eyes, but with an internal sense sometimesreferred to as the "third eye". Such "visions" concern something beyond one's physical view, e.g.,in the next room, down the street, or a thousand miles away.
2. Clairaudience
(clear hearing) is the ability to receive thoughts or information about a person or situation through an auditory sense instead of a visual one. This information is actuallyinaudible to the normal hearing range. It can be experienced as delicate sounds such as music, bells, or singing. It might also manifest as a knocking, siren, or other attention-getting sound.Most often, it comes as a voice that is literally heard either directly in the brain or through theauditory sense, as if it comes from beside or behind the person.This voice can have many aspects, at times sounding like the person's own, and at otherstaking on a change of tone, volume, or pitch and sounding like someone else. It can take on anauthoritarian tone or that of warning, gentle prodding, or encouragement. It can also be veryobjective and matter-of-fact.
3. Clairsentience
(clear sensing) is probably the most frequent way intuition manifests inour lives, through hunches, gut feelings, or a sense of knowing without knowing how one knows.This "sensing" is often accompanied by a physical sensation -- for some people in the solar  plexus, for others in the heart area. Some feel a prickling of their skin. The physical sensationcan vary with each person.This information comes to us in a variety of ways. At times, it comes as a thought thatwalks across the mind in a natural, subtle manner. When intuition comes to us in this way, it is somuch like the regular musings of our mind that we can easily miss it, dismiss it, or mistake it for our own ruminations.
1.5 The Myers-Briggs Intuition Preference
People who have a preference for intuition are immersed in their impressions of themeanings or patterns in their experiences. They would rather gain understanding through insightthan through hands-on experience.Intuitive types tend to be concerned with what is possible and new, and they have anorientation to the future. They are often interested in the abstract and in theory, and may enjoyactivities where they can use symbols or be creative. Their memory of things is often animpression of what they thought was the essence of an event, rather than a memory of the literalwords or experiences associated with the event. They often like concepts in and of themselves,even ones that do not have an immediate application, and they learn best when they have animpression of the overall idea first.
 
People who prefer intuition may:- recall events by what they read "between the lines" at the time- solve problems through quick insight and through making leaps- be interested in doing things that are new and different- Place great trust in insights, symbols, and metaphors- Sometimes focus so much on new possibilities that they miss the practicalities of  bringing them into reality.
1.6 Educative Importance of Intuition
As an element of educationalmethod intuition means the grasp of knowledge by concrete, experimental or intellectual, ways of apprehension. The immediate perception of sensuous or material objects by our senses is called sensuous or empirical intuition, theimmediate apprehension of intellectualor immaterial objects by our intelligence is calledintellectualintuition. It may be remarked thatKantcalls empirical intuitions our knowledgeof  objects through sensation, and pure intuition our perception of space and time as the forms a priori of sensibility. Again, our intuitions may be called external or internal, according as theobjects perceived are external objects or internal objects or acts.The importance of intuition as a process and element of knowledgeis easily seen if weobserve that it is intuition which furnishes us with the first experimental data as well as with the primary concepts and the fundamental judgments or principles which are the primitive elementsand the foundation of every scientific and philosophicalspeculation. This importance, however,has been falsely exaggerated to an extent which tends to destroy the validity of human reason. There has been an attempt to make of intuition, under different names, the central andfundamental element of our power of acquiringknowledge, and the only process or operationthat can put us into contact with reality.
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