Expanding Intuition Guru Darshan Kaur KhalsaCONTENTS Comers " Geren : Cur: orsmow Dern eT “eo Err ia ‘Ana Maranon (Chara 2 Tou Fo an » Baa Toe Se Bear Eeubun Morano mm 38 (Charan 3: oruen AND Ta Baa en “Tee Rermin Ban —en Baan se a!) Shu Remus ave Mame 38 Trae Be Sx Gran Se a eau Nat Cet Mapranon 42 Toate Conn « Sree Bran Taras Som Pays uma Maren ‘tL Baa “at er ‘Bose Maoranon Tra Rie Ba rors Bunce Se Inte Bates Mioraon (Charan Tat Nos 0 fron = (Coumoneston serene Hows Ser 6 Nove Viton Moan 99 (Gurma 5: Meoranow ao ramon — PRCEMoW Sf ‘omar Guo Maranon =o Hien treme Mepnanow == 6 Tana Be Mapa oe BB “Tome or Bun Cura Maar 90 Maxou Suan Mra 92 uae PasowayconucrMabaron 94 Emcubce ne Fane Mionanon 96 ‘Cranene 2 Castor Menno 98 (Cova: Bue Morano 0INTRODUCTION Inthe yogic paradigm the development of incition is considered stable reliable Function ofthe sixth chakra. In Kundalini Yor, ‘there are eight chakras. These eight chakras ae sytem by which ‘we gainawarenesand consciously take responsibiity to panicipate in our own spiritual evolution Tei suggested thatthe first five chakras are balanced and elevated before beginning work on the seth chakrs level “I.” Kondalini Yoga ie a systematic map for ‘taining states of higher consciousnes. Intuition is just one of these sates, Kundalini Yoga will give you an equivalent 0° an the owner's ‘manual o your body. Acar, when properly mainisined,wileavel thedistnce You cantly on the arto goup the hil and to Break gency when you descend the valleys. Teis hard toenjoy the view iF youare constantly wondering ifyou have enough gs, of ifthe fuel {up to par and will workin your cas engine. ‘Who would be willing to drive a dangerous mountain road if the break did not work? Mott of us would no drive at nightif the headlights didn't work. When the cris in good condition you can actually plana ‘tip and enjoy the new experience that rvel can provide s. But ifyou don’t havea car, or you tire are fat, or you don't have ay acl, or lack money (nergy, takinga journey nous of the question, ‘Yoga teaches you how to prepate the body, your vehicle of consciousness, for tavein the higher telmeoFawarenes, You cin actualy aces your spc, including intuition, through the body by practicing Kundalini Yoga. Esch of us vas designed 10 txperence the pfs of higher consciournes, It sour birt righ. ‘Weeach have the bile ous our centers of higher consciournes, “The trp of life can be made with comfort and pest expectation when the body, mind and spirit (he physical vehicle) hat been ropety trained, cuned up and prepared by Kundalini YorAcar may seem to ea uemendous mystery to someone who has never used one. The whole concept ofthe Ley fting into ‘he ignition teens magical toa child. Mostchildren wil gab for those keys. They kxow that they unlock doors, to houses and car motors, but a child it not prepated vo use the keys properly until they ate educsed in the way of cars. Kundalini Yous prepates you and educates you inthe way of consciousness by ‘using gana, pranayam , mant, and mudra. Intuition isnot 3 mystery or 4 mysterious ay, i i a natural Holistic way of ‘operating in this wold There are many other ways to acess intuition. Ifyou eed them and didn'chaveconsistent els, don't despit. Take his ‘opportunity lean and practice Kundalini Yoga. Then back and ty thore other intuition sil again. Invest some time in 4 Kundalini Yoga discipline first and see how those old skill ick in and deliver.GUIDELINES Before you decide to practic yoga be mindful ofthese simple bu important guidelines Practice in an aes that it qute, lean and peaceful, The best time is ety inthe morning. A Wear comforsble, natural fiber ‘lothing. For ‘the very best results weur white. A cotton head covering is commended but not necessary. Do al yoga in bare feet no shoes and no socks, HE Abstain From food for 23 hoursbefore doing yoga Drink plenty of liquids before, during and afer, {EE Before every yoga sesionslomly chant ONG NAM GURU DEV NAM Thee times Translated i means “Infinite Cresive Consciousees within, 1 call on you" 45 Chane in prayer pose with the alms pressed together thumbs against the sternum. Chant in 2 mono tone except for DEV, which isa minor thd higher than the toni, and chanted ikea rwosylable word. FE Concluding your session sng? “May th long time Sun shine vpon you, All love surround you ‘And the Pure Light within you, Guide your way on.” This is done inthe same postion a the tune in chant, AHF Breath of Fire should be replaced by slower deep breathing ot normal besthing during 2 women's menstrual eye Sow palpi ae sialieiibinnWhat is Intuition? Intuition Defined ‘There are many definitions of intuition. Each definition isa teflection ofthe consciousness of those people who took th: time ta dete tor that period of me, at that point in ther I. As consciousness expands, intuition expands, The idea you hve of| intuition can change a5 you begin your self-directed study in this book and even in other books you have read or wil read on this topic. This chapter includes many other diferent definitions Dictionary Definition: ‘As found in Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary 1) A regarding, looking a, 0 consider to look on. 2) Theimmediate knowing o learning of something witheu the ‘conscious use of eatoning intantaneous apprehension. Some thing known of leared inthis way 4) Instinc, apprehension, recognition insight CHAPTER oes ceSome A mart stearate 2 Exranome werumon (comms) 4, Direct perception of trths independently of any reasoning process, pure untaugh, non inferential knowledge. '5.) Absence of reason. 46) Instinct, automatic reaction, association, light of nature sixth ‘sense si faculty, tlepahy, insight, clairvoyance, direct appre Denson, unmediated pecepion, «prior knowledge, divination dowsing, inspiration, presentiment, impulse, mere feeing 7.)Rule ofthomb, huneh impression, sense guesswork, untutores Smelligence, Mogi. {8 Instinctive, impulsive, non-discorsve, involuntary, sponta ‘ous, above reason, beyend independent unknovn-know, by in- stint, havea sixth sense in the mind's eye-asociation of ideas. ‘The word intuition i decved from the Latin rot in, meaning in sit does in English and wei, which means look at By 100king inward, youcan also look at some experience or issue and thereby seeitfrom different pespective. Byreaching into yourinsition, asan aspectof your uncoascious mind, oucan come up with ne insighs of methods. Ey listening t0 the inner voice of your intuition, you can hear new answers Western Physiological Jung characterizes intakon as the function that explores the tnlnown and senses posibiliies and implications which may not be readily apparent. Intuition perceives what is hidden and thos ‘enables one to perceive cbscure meanings in symbolic imagery ot ‘the subconscious motives in ones and in others “According to Jung's thory, there are four psychological fone ‘ons: thinking, feeling sensing and intuition. While one of those unetions is dominant ata time in each of us, the others operate simultaneously Intitior, as Jung conceived i one ofthe bic fanctions of the psyche, xamely the perception of the possibiies inherent in a situation. His four functions correspond 1 the ‘predominant inelecta skills ofthe reptilian brain (sensing) Limbic system (feeling), Le Neo-Cortex (thinking). and Right 'Neo-Cortex intuition Jang considered intuition tobe the quality that "sees around the come.” ‘The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology defines intuition as: “Amode of understanding or knowing characterized a direct and immediate and occurring without conscious thought or judgment. ‘There are two distinct cennotations which often accompany this term: A-the proces isunmediated and somehow mystical, that J is a response to sue cues and relationships apprehended implicitly, unconscious!"Some psychologists suggestthat intuitive knowingisa subliminal perception, suggesting that intuition is simply being aware of| things which had been perceived below the threshold of conscious peeption. The broad range of intuitive human experiences falls {no four dstnctlevels of awareness: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Mystical awareness intiive atthe spisitual level Physical awareness is associated with body sensations. Emotional vareness i associated with felings. Mental deals with images corideas, Western Philosophy Philosophers concemed with universal ruth and epistemology have regarded intuition as a way of knowing in which the separation of subject and object is transcended. The knower becomes one with he known One suddenly knows from ise. In ‘Wester philosophy intuition has traditionally been associated with direct apprehension of absolue rah, ‘Aldous Huxley “Knowledges function of being. When there isa changein the being ofthe knower, there isa corresponding change in the nature andamountof knowledge.” Huxley concluded thatthe natreand ‘he quality of inition vary withthe knower's stat of conscious- Eastern Philosophy ‘At sursnarized by Aldous Huey Rig-Veda (The oldest portion ofthe sacred canon of Hitduism, one of the four hymnodies, regarded as revelation Composed 1300-1000 8.) 1) Knowledge is suctured in consciousness. 2)Wehave knowledge ustby vite ofthe facttharwe are 3) What we know and how well we know, vaiesntonly from person 10 person but with changes in individual awareness, During the course of any day we experience ‘uctuations of awareness, and therefore our ablity 0 perezive andknow changes. The differences depesd ona ‘configuration of conditions that form our state of con- sciousness. 4) The form of knowing that intuition takes, the eaity of the experience, andthe degree to which itreflects realty curren enue nrumone 3 Aldous Huey aroSeen apnea meme cangesasconcounes changes. Te key bles te nower sate of ensciousnes ands eterned by ‘ie over condone the nervous sym ‘ 5) Initon would be favored bya combination of ow dou anhigh mess aca, wake cape sae Conse fh rele lite exrancos mental oie ere ‘ rth the inp ofthe inte ming 6) lcm be posted hat EEG coherences eorelation tetween bain wanes fom separate regions ote bain) ‘ ‘San imporant defining vale, nat ere appears tesrlatonsip between coerence adie expeene of ‘ transcendence, wie iste epitome of sent lennese Coherence has been associa with ret, cognitive ‘ ‘exit, nd ob pefonnace messes tu probly Involveinion, Evidence sgge that peopl who Dave tuncraent expences are ly ob ine in te ‘ cua sense ofthe word. ner words acheter nerds system would condoct infomation witout reisusce, ‘ oth ftom the envrnment and within 7) Intuition can be understood as the mind turning in on lief and apprehesding the result of processes that have ‘ ‘wkenplace oosideawareness. Acoherentnervoussysiem ‘might process material more appropriately, forming con ‘igoraons that areinline with the desires and needs ofthe ‘ individual. A more orderly system would sso draw the Jknower'satentonto the righ place within the mind atthe ' right time, and it would also have access to broader base of information. 4) Pictare the mindasan ocean. The ripples onthe surfece “ represent ordinary active awareness, turbulent and ever- changing. We experience this layer asa constant flow cf ‘thoughis and sensations, each with a distin and unique character. Beneath hats arange of deeper levels, which ‘would encompass all non-conscious process and sire tures. Underlying and permeating ital is absolue pure consciousness, the changeless, boundless, universal sel. ‘Within the mind, zach progressively deeper layer more closely resembles pure consciousness; it would parke mare ofits qualities, just as objects closer o afr become progressively hotter and brighter. Each deeper level would ‘bemore stable, more universal, less restitedby space and time, and closer tothe truth, since pure consciousness is silent all-pervadirg, beyond time and space. Esch levelurres Lsenarisoemon’ 5 encornpasses the levels above supporting, ordeing, and irecting them, just asin the physical realm, molecular structuresare more inclusvethan the material objects they ‘comprise, atoms are more universal than molecules, and so forth. "Hence at deeper levels the mind has more in common with other minds andi less individuated 9) We can postulate thatthe quality of intuition ielated tothe degre of access our awareness has to deeper levels of the mind. Because that would depend on ovrstate of consciousness, there would be a direct relaonship be- tween qualities of the nervous system, also krown a6 coherence, and access 1 the depths of the mind where , "universal impulses of information canbe tapped, 10) The ooean-like model can portay all fereaton. On the surface, weare al the formsand objects ofthe fii, , tangible world. Underlying and pervading ther, as we Jenow from science, are increasingly univers ard non- material levels of reality which encompass the more Individuated manifestations, molecules, atoms e., each ‘more abstract and all pervasive. The bass of i ll is , undifferentiated being, the absolute, which isthe source and substance of existnce. Every form and every struc- ‘ure isa manifestation ofthe absolute, aperwbationinan infinite eld drectedby cosmicintllgence. Andsoisthe mind. In Indian cosmology, there are sill deeper, more subue layers of reality, which we mightcall tendercies,oF laws of nature, nat laws inthe scientific sense, deived by ‘he human mind, bot nature's eternal regulatory mechs: nisms. These tendencies, which are knowable t0 the developed intuition, might be tought of as ahieruchy of ‘ordering principles that structure and guide the evelution- ary flow of creation, organizing and ordering te cosmos. , In the East they link the seamless web of inreated energy events that constitute realty to human conciour- ness, When person transcends, hecomestoknow-he Self, . which isaso the bass ofall cretion. Iisa trv thatthe same intelligence which lows through the materi realm is owing through us, the paterns and princpies that govern the ebb and flow of the outside ae also at work inside, Te universe is made of consciousness. This adde , another dimension and explains why mystics and yogis hhave been able to turn within themselves and come out knowing how the universe works. They simply perceived their own nature, whichis alko natute's nature ALE a RAIRER CRN RNNENINE S555. oneAbeba ee. ; ‘Parma Yous SiS eee se ee Patanjal's Yopa Sutras ‘As summarized by Aldous Husley ‘InPatajal's Yop Sutras hespellsouthow knowledge ofthe outer word canbe obtained by turning within, This fxplanation relates to an earlier assertion, thet tanscen fence opens other intuitive channel, Wht is interesting s thatthe prerequisite or these powers is ssid tobe Samana 1 complex term that boils down tothe ably of the miné toremain absobedinthetranscendent and alsothink. This seems tobe a contradinon, since transcendence is perfect, omdocalzed unity, consciousness without chought. It is said thatan expanded mind can linger atthe level wherethe hangeless abvolutemver the transient relative. Teisasifthe ‘mind has one fot on either side and can operate wilfully ‘without losing the universality ofwareness associated with pore consciousness, Ths sate of swatenesis called Rom ‘hava pagys, which meant fll of unalloyed truth To put it another way, this would be a ease of the submarine of stention gaining the ability to sation itself at the very deepest lel ofthe mind. Theoretically with attention 19 stuted, the mind an know anything becouse icommands the entteteritory. At that lve there would bbenarertitions oftimeor space Consciousness ts pute state it tid to be infinitely comelated with everthing in creations, Polatiis dissolve, enabling the knower so ‘comprehend theunitythat underlies the appaten diversity and thie might ale el fuitfl analogies that contribute {e ineutie insight. Intutione from that level wold he ferperienced with grest clarity, since the nervous system ‘would be at maximum coherence, There wauld be no “etic” to interfere wth the apprehension ofthe impulse which would be pereived in its purest, least adulterated In theory, person whose awareness is situated atthe junction ofthe unmanifest and manifest would be operat ing in harmony with cormic aw, One might be 2be 10 ini directly mare's eeral organizing principles. More important, an intuitive mind would be guided and directed 'by thote principles, shether consciously aware of them ot not na high state ofconsciousnes, actions ae said 0 be spontaneously right, The intuitive impulses chat inform ean rae TSA *cuurten Leenarisnmuron 7 and guide the enlightened mind would be approprnt for both the individual and the environment, since the mind would be esonating with the deepest impuites of aatue We would know what nature intends us © know. In (Consinued) religious terms this has been called living in accor with divine wil” Regardless of spiritual orientation, those happy people who seem todo eveything right, those who avoid the danger that has not yet come, are probsbly Functioning much ofthe time from some deep levelof the rind, ‘Consciousness contains within it all posible knox!- edge. The quality of intuition depends mainly on cur rate of consciousness. Higher consciousness defined metaphorically asthe ability to station atention at deeper levels of the mind. Pursuing illumination isa say of cultivating all Fnetions of ineution. Each added Aegeee oF illumination is synonymous with a more purified consciousness, which means functioning wth ‘rete fequency and consistency fom the deepest levels ‘of the mind. Physiologically, we poralate tha higher ‘oniouiness should be asociated with a high degree of, subiley, order and aletnes in the nervous system. In ‘everyday terms, this would be experienced a5 ment larg, inner calm, and the relative absence of extrzneous rental noite. Paran’s Yoo SuTas ‘The most important thing anyone can do to develop Snuition i to culivate a higher sate of consciousness. ‘While individual states of awareness vary, each of us can be sai to operate at some basic level around which ve fluctuate, depending ona variety of physical, ‘mental, and enviconmental factors. With diligence, we ‘can increase the rate by which consciousness expands Literally everything we do, think, or come into contact with affects our nervous system. Those who assiduously follow a path of consciousness development right change their eating, exercise, and other habits a ‘hie needs change. If they make the right choices for ‘themselves, chy will radually become more intuit, ‘whether or not that is «conscious goal. In eutvaing & coherent nervous sstem, we should find chat ineuion becomes more consistently fertile and truthprodusing Each of us should experiment ro disover the conditions that bring about consistent level of inner silence and heightened clatieythe hallmarks of con- Ro i a nt at 0 AO a