From basic survival, personal relationships, marital relationships, avoiding those who mean you harm, astute business choices, accurate, though unexplainable precognition insights, and a vast host of critical situations where you are at risk, yet the factors needed for a solution are in the realm of the unknown at a conscious level, just as in all living creatures, only instinct will save the day, and, without which you are “half your whole.”

Regardless of your leisure-time choices, your interests, profession, life challenges, your passions, your present situation, shaping your children's potential for their future, as well as subtle indications of what to avoid, only your instinctive nature can replace guessing with insight. It often does so in surprising applications as I have found: Because of my choice of a leisure-time activity, I found a particular interest in the increased successes by hobbyist hunting lost coins and treasure caches. Understand the facts needed to develop your natural instinctive nature, and chances are you; too, will find surprising applications not now considered, so CONSIDER THIS:

“Science has found intuition, or “learning without awareness,” can elegantly process more information on a more sophisticated level than we would have imagined or taken seriously without the science to prove it.

We are going to explore, in depth, a remarkable “tool.” This device has existed in the public awareness as fiction, and a source of much nonsense. Until research defined the facts, delineated the application required, this device was as farfetched as a “time machine,” or any of the other “silver bullets” we dream of to provide solutions where none exists.

As most facts are relatively recent, and have not yet had a “public airing,” today's know-how is almost certainly unknown to you, most certainly to the depth we will take it. Where most reports take a few weeks to write, that is, once I have all the facts, I have been on this most of a year, and it about “beat me to death.”

In addition to seeing how this device is of significance as a key to finding treasure, discover how this device has already proven itself in such seemingly unrelated endeavors as business and scientific research, emergency services, as well as in our military.

You will be advised as to how this “tool” is taught to, and then used by, commodity traders, stock specialist on the New York stock exchange, as well as other high-earnings, high-pressure vocations where one lacking this advantage would not be competitive. This, as in the modern world, all these professionals, among others in high-earning roles, either uses this means-to-an-end, or they “crash and burn.”

Unless one works in the areas defined by my education, chances are 100% you would not have the opportunities afforded me to learn about this amazing device at this early date, or, most certainly, have my access to the professional resources that document and define its application.

I consider some knowledge to be in the realm of a public trust, which, when of benefit to humanity, one is obligated to share, not package, price, and sell it. Which is to say what I have to report is so important to your future, this report is one in which I must have NO monetary reward, or framed the information in any way that could be viewed as perhaps having a hidden agenda.

(1) I am disgusted by the tendency of professionals to “play it safe,” opt to “run a popularity contest” and not challenging the clucks of the “timid feeders,” society's lowest common denominator. I say, do the right thing by publishing the facts and let that segment vent their hysteria; why let their fussing keep something vital from the rest? Anything new, anything that challenges that segment of society is rather like sneaking into a chicken house, jumping up and yelling, “Boo.” I say, let them cluck, just serve the rest with your best, and let tail feathers fall where they will!

You, as I, have had people fain sincerity in helping, then find they are giving a sales line, and actually care more about the money, than delivering “the goods.” It seems to me, someone needs to break that mold, and on the subject of this report, it appears if this pattern is to be broken, if it's to be, it's up to me.

At first blush, you may well wonder why I cover so many issues in introducing this new tool. Why my conversation takes aim at such a vast choice of issues, rather than just slam-dunk the basics, which is what some folks prefer. Frankly, it cannot be done and do it right. Time will prove my approach correct, providing you give each progressive “step” the time it takes to read and lay a foundation that will stand the test of time for you.

I will open the “foundation work” by stating with authority that what you are going to learn is extraordinary, to say the very least. One is not given authority; it must be earned, and then kept alive with unfailing vigilance, as a single misstep will void that grant of trust. Readers are not particularly forgiving, compassionate, or understanding if disappointed, or, the author fails in reach and pays with their credibility. It seems they will even forgive their banker for an error, but expect a higher standard from authors.

To prosper in the writing/reporting profession, one must guard against errors in judgment, and broker only facts that will stand the test of time. Do consider that the written word outlives the writer pushing those verbs up against nouns, and consider that writers are aware their work will be read long after they “reach room temperature,” even read by those yet unborn.

In bringing this to you, I must wrestle with problematic areas and some long-standing corruptions from association with myth, which must be addressed and replaced with factual background. In some instance this requires supplying psychological understandings, condensed from a doctorate level, to what is a brief footnote, though to some they may seem not “brief” enough. It is, however, worth “wading through” for the reward.

No doubt this theme is worth the effort for what I know it will do for you, over time. Understand that before one turns eighteen, one can absorb and promptly USE dormant self-actuating propensities, such as natural intuitive responses. Whereas, once maturity “hardwires” your psyche, it may take as long as seven years to achieve your full potential, and cannot be sped along by effort. Self-effort defeats itself, in this instance, just as is typical of all higher mental functions. So in mastering this implement, the harder you DO NOT try, the better it works, rather than effort, you need knowledge and time to “install,” just be assured it will do so, once you know.

Nothing herein is trivial. Yes, I realize that some of the background is somewhat on the wordy scale, but it is critical for you to cover. Skip ahead, gloss over the lead ins, and you will miss an opportunity of the first order. This background is critical to you or I would have left it out.

We live in an age where age-old “mysteries” are being solved in such vast numbers that numerous parts of college textbooks are archaic before they leave the printer. These long-standing unknowns are being solved so efficiently, and the solutions communicated so efficiently, that people are able to casually accomplish, today, that which was “impossible” just the week before. Yet the treasure finding expertise of which I write is not used to the degree it is understood by serious science as of this date. In fact, almost to the person, its very validity, its existence, is suspect, and, frankly, I, personally, fail to see how it could be any other way. The suspicion is fully justified; anyway you analyze its history.

Yet, today, at levels not part of the everyday world, there is no doubt that this former mystery is at least one of our most profound skills, as critical to outstanding success as whatever else one may assume contributes to, or makes possible, unusual achievement.

We also have proof that one particularly potent application of this new understanding is treasure hunting. In seeking caches it mimics the same source of solutions to impasses it solves for our U.S. Marines, and other branches of our military. The same as it works where nothing else will for firemen, stock exchange personnel, as well as others now using its unique clout, all of which will be discussed in depth, further on.

It would be good to address why something you need in today's world can be developed, and put into daily use, yet remain “below the radar.” Of course when new technology is a technical skill based upon “knowing how,” not just another gadget one can purchase, it tends to be limited to evolving as expertise at the level of professionals in a trade, craft, or profession. If in anyway controversial, or “disgraced,” this image is only transformed with the coming to awareness of a new generation: How many today remember the lack of credibility for supplying electricity in the form of an alternating current over direct current, or the quackery that was as much a part of its image as its practical applications?

Consider that in its infancy, electricity spawned literally hundreds of quack medical devices, bogus health and beauty scams. Thus legitimate medicine originally avoided using both the word “treatment,” and “electrical” in the same sentence.

As to our subject matter, some of the highest earning people in our culture, as well as our Marines are using what is obscured from the public by lack of awareness, as well as lack of interest, which is justified by historic prejudice, just as once, was electricity.

Also factor in an understanding of people as exemplified by a rule in writing and in business, which is the public will not accept anything that is more than 20% “different,” in some instances, “different” from their paradigm as it was formed when they graduated from high school.

Finally, there are various “labels for this subject, almost all are outdated, and convey incorrect meanings. So we do need to acknowledge that words are often labels we use like product brands. “Packard,” the once premier luxury brand, ended its days as a “joke,” a “Studebaker with lipstick,” and opposite the prestige its “label” once conveyed.

Word meanings and brand association can change with great ease. While the word “fire” cannot burn you, you brand that word with an association as well as a meaning, depending upon the context in which it is used: Mention “house” and fire is associated with distress. If one were discussing their preparation for hunting season and their choice of “gun,” one could easily associate “fire” with the distant gunfire one hears during hunting season.

The flexibility of this evolvement of meanings to a word label works well in an ever-evolving culture, that is, if we stay current. The point is, even the “professional student” can keep up with just a narrow stream of advances. Usually, this is not a trap, as we tend to focus on our immediate interests. By in large, we rely on others to practice their specialty to make us aware of what is applicable to us, and then we purchase their knowledge and advisement of developments as needed, or free for the taking, as is this report.

An increasingly large percentage of the knowledge that defines our life is relatively recent, or new. Almost everything we take for granted is part of the host of innovative understandings that shape our very existence, which are new, or at least recent enough for the generation, in which the new technology was introduced, to still be around: Consider there are still people among us, born into a world that would have considered our present awareness of electricity, broadcast signals, radio, television, computers, the atom, microwave ovens, aircraft, medical tools, x-rays, transplants, even on-demand hot and cold water with “indoor toilets” as utter nonsense.

As is often found in the introduction of a new technology, the first to come along are the cons seeking profit by way of credibility from half-truths, seemingly possible, based on rumors of some new “miracle discovery.” Just the early “quack” application of electricity mentioned previously, numbered into the hundreds, exclusively for “medical cures,” everything from “cancer cures” to “reversing baldness.” Apparently, this is how it must be in our world. So, we have no basis to voice protest to skepticism and outright rejection to topics where yesterday's logic does not apply to what is known today.

Nowadays even the illiterate can read and write, and, therefore, there is so much nonsense directed at the public, we tend to expect it at all levels, and for it to be disguised in many forms; it even comes as mail. At least half of my mail is discarded unopened, just as I also tend to dismiss “unexplainable” events outright. Likewise, regardless of how seemingly sincere, I also tend to be indifferent to whomever I perceive is next in line to insult my intelligence.

So none of us have a need to make apologizes for our skepticism. Of course “skepticism” is a healthy sign of one's intelligence, whereas, “cynicism” is a mental disorder, and one of the most common psychological disorders. No doubt this widespread malfunction is helped along by one-too-many “alien abductions,” quackery, crackpots, late night commercials, and some of the stuff thrown at us during political campaigns, which are crafted to enflame emotion over logic, and avoid long-term consequences.

Beyond writing to serve and, now, for pleasure, my expertise is in the field of human behavior. I specialize not in the affective emotions of traditional psychology, but in the rational process itself: How your “mind” furnishes you with rational conclusions, or, more specifically, the episteme of logic.

Science tends to only trust, however, that which can be taken to a lab, put on the work counter and proven empirically. So, dear reader, I do have a dilemma with you in establishing an equal basis for “what makes it work” set in “concrete,” as I would in rational epistemology. This as our subject flows from a part of you that cannot be confined to a research lab bench, or to reverse engineered for a precise empirical documentation. Of course, not every phenomenon can be tested this way, remember we do not know how aspirin “works,” yet, unlike this report's subject, aspirin has not been traditionally misrepresented for what it was not.

We live in a time where former “impossibilities,” and “mysteries” are yielding to research daily, whether they can pass the “bench test” or not. We tend to accept such advances in knowledge, even when the subject cannot be seen; thus we pay the power bill, though the electricity itself is not visible. We see the results and let science worry about explaining the “mysterious” part, that which is invisible.

Most of “who we are” is below the surface, and at this point in history, we are all something of a mystery to ourselves about ourselves. We are all mental “hybrids.” We tend to assume our conscious psyche is the engine that drives us, however, our major “power plant” is below our conscious level, and, to the general public, a mystery. Furthermore, were I to tell you of some of even the most mundane lower-level abilities, which psychologist know you command, it would be a waste of time. No doubt it would sound “kooky,” and I would lose most of you, it would overshadow what I can give you here and now at a rational, believable, level that will be of supreme value to you.

It will suffice to say almost all of your truly remarkable inherent intuitive abilities given you at birth, are beyond your present capacity to believe, or you would already be using them. In most cases, we could, however, sidetrack your doubtful conscious with hypnosis and access most of these latent abilities your conscious doesn't know exists, or would accept, and with hypnosis you, yes you, would do things not possible for you otherwise. As for me, my favorite “impossibility” is people memorizing many pages of the dictionary with one reading, yet in their ordinary existence be unable to remember, or recall, what they had for dinner the day before, where they left their keys, or, as I do sometimes, find myself in a room and not remember why I went there. Of course my age plays a part here; after all, I am at that age where I notice cars more than girls.

While in a psychological window, such as hypnosis, one is an unnatural state of mind where conscious self-doubt is waylaid, and though an “unnatural state of mind” we are free to be free to our nature. Be assured our below-the-surface talents are as natural as any of our senses, yet without sensible answers, without knowledgeable facts to the questions they pose, such “abilities” remain at the level of “nonsense.” There is no known way to defeat ignorance, if not somehow neutralized with knowledge.

As to the doubt you may have about your intuitive “abilities,” consider, also, the instinctive marvels we see in nature, everything from navigation by insects with a “brain” too small to see with the naked eye, to the knowledge accessed by a mother cat giving birth. We recognize and marvel at such profound abilities in nature, of which we are a part; yet assume we lack intuition; perhaps, assuming they were replaced over “time” by our rational abilities.

We have intuitive marvels by the millions in nature. One may marvel at how insects find and precisely locate sustenance by instinct alone in those instances where smell, sight or other senses are of no benefit, yet dismiss as mere anomalies the instances where a human displays extraordinary levels of intuition. Consider this: Were you aware that YOU keep perfect time? That you do not need an alarm clock, nor, until recently, could you purchase one that could equal your accuracy? Minor facts about you, yet, even such simple nature abilities are easily doubted without specific education.

When I returned to completing my education, I had personally experienced events I knew were extraordinary, yet without “rhyme or reason,” the sort of “events” one knows better than admit to, or talk about. Yet I was privately curious about the instinctive nature of the human psyche. The interest led me to seek out and study “intuition,” as a sideline hidden within my psychology curriculum.

Later, I understood the public's “dread” of recognizing intuitive “hunches” when I learned to “frame” it emotionally; intuitive functions seem “irrational,” “crazy,” if you will, and any lost of one's “sanity” is perceived with more fear than death. No doubt most explanations of intuitive insights are expressed, in the vernacular, as “crazy.”

My willingness to venture into such a dubious aspect was also a quest for answers to related riddles extending back to my youth. I never forgot one of my teachers' comments on children's “natural intuitive nature,” and the astounding results amplified by an unquestioning trust in their instincts. This had been used to explain an event in which children quickly located a pioneer survey marker after all other “adult efforts” had failed.

As I recall it, I rejected her explanation as just another superstition derived from folklore and oldwives' tales. Still, I had been curious about intuition, before I could even spell it, sensing a faint “hunch” was something more than the hocus pocus commonly described.

Having no idea of just how much was then understood about our instinctive nature, a minor interest soon grew into a fascination of an aspect of human nature, and all other living creatures, that is the defining “something” that determines survival, as well as extraordinary success in seemingly impossible situations, yet remains an area most people know nothing about, and believe even less.

In the end, however, I wholeheartedly looked to serious science to tell me what it knew, what I could believe, what our “smartest sense” was capable of accomplishing in the real world. So take the phone off the hook, lock your door, turn of any noise generator, sit down, and fasten your seat belt. Here is what we know for sure, most of which I am sure you do not know about yourself. It's going to be a bit of a trip! Let's do it:

We begin by looking at the importance of balance in our thought process; specifically the conscious part “running out in the opening.” In addition to developing an awareness of the importance of a healthy equilibrium between our unthinking, reactive emotions, and that of responding with rational thought, you have everything to gain from a proper understanding of your basic survival instinct -- intuition.

You may have the same attitude as I did when I began my research into intuition, I soon realized, that for me, the first obstacle would be coming to grips with learning facts that challenged the ordinary level of rational thinking, which I, and most people, realize is essential to a successful life. I wanted to know more; however, because of the esoteric nature of the subject, and what I perceived as its “unwholesome history,” I was exactly like the student who wanted to become a surgeon, but insisted that medical school leave out the bloody stuff. By that I meant not having to deal with the aspects of instincts that were known as valid, yet still minus the lifeblood of scientific research, the fully evolved data supporting what was happening and how.

Science, and the student of a professional disciple, both, are groomed to trust only what can be taken to a lab, put on the counter and proven empirically: I too did not want an educational agenda serving me something half-baked, or raw; rather, provide me with proven knowledge of which I can put into practice with full confidence. Uncertainty is not a viable form of knowledge upon which to build occupational integrity. One earns from knowing what is wrong, what “part” is needed, where to put it, and how to install it; not an assumption founded in opinion and conjecture.

So, it was not easy for me, however, education, time, and yes, experience, proved to me that our “insight,” “sixth sense,” unexplainable inklings,” or “psychic sense” flows naturally from each of us. While our intuitive nature is something science cannot deny, and each of us have in abundance, it is not so much understanding as it is lack of any confidence in it that renders such power mute. The general public has little basis to accept intuition as a reality. Of course it is only natural and rational to be skeptical about something one doesn't understand.

Since the days of Carl Jung, research has shown most of “what you are” is not what you believe “you are.” Yet, even though we now know, we just don't know how to explain it on an everyday level, even some of the needed “words” have yet to be coined to be able to make clear to you your own personal aspects of the intuition phenomena. Though psychology has yet to codify the underlying process of just how you can do what we know you can do, enough is known to tap what is quite possibly the second greatest resource you were bequeathed at birth. For comparison, I would again remind, we still DO NOT understand how aspirin does what it does. This, even while we continue to find astonishing new uses for aspirin, to the point of labeling it a true “wonder drug.” Yet, in another cast of “a known” lagging behind applications that work, we continue to seek the answers to “how,” and “why”

“Aspirin” is a scientific marvel, though it has taken nearly a century to define today's applications thus far, sensing much more is yet to come. Yet aspirin is somehow trivial when compared to the reach and power of your intuition, as it is in all surviving creatures on earth.

You, I, and your grandchildren may not live to see our “instinctive mind's” functions defined empirically, perhaps even the same for aspirin. Should you therefore avoid aspirin as an anti-inflammatory, a non-steroidal analgesic, and more recently, to guard against strokes and heart attacks? As in the “how it works” mystery of aspirin, where is the wisdom in avoiding the known benefits of instincts, of not at least considering developing your NATURAL access to them in a “harmless” area, which is to develop your innate intuition to assist in finding treasure?

The reality is those visceral “hunches” from your “gut” are without a doubt among the best leads or solutions you will ever get. I can write that with confidence, as not only do we understand the “science” of the benefits of intuition; today we even teach it as a vital part of success in many professions. Were you aware, for example, that the Marine Corps' official doctrine incorporates the study of intuition in their training? One brief excerpt from their training manual reads: “The intuitive approach is more appropriate for the vast majority of … decisions made in the fluid, rapidly changing conditions of war when time and uncertainty are critical factors, and creativity is a desirable trait.”

In any profession where are all of the facts are unknown; we now understand that intuition usually beats rational analysis. (As I am an expert in nomological psychology -- reasoning and logic - learning of an aspect of our psyche that “beats rational analysis” was the sort of research findings that forced me to sit down, catch my breath, and forgo sleep to ponder its profundity.) We have also come to realize and accept that the most brilliant decisions are most often those that come from the gut.

In complex or disorganized situations from a trading floor, the battlefield, or the hunt for something lost, we now recognize that intuition is a very real form of awareness. Though that casual observation is quite dated, at this time we can back it up with an ever-expanding wealth of research from neurology, cognitive psychology, and, surprisingly, economics, as well as ten of thousands of objectively defined case histories, and controlled experiments, many at the University level, which define what intuition can do, what you can do.

Science has also found that intuition, or “learning without awareness,” can elegantly process more information on a more sophisticated level than we would have imagined or taken seriously without the science to prove it. In technical terms, what intuition does best is fill in a blank, or empty space, which, in formal language, is called a “lacunae.”

What is really astounding is just how well equipped we are for “abduction,” the formal word for the type of inference used in the intuitive process, which is, basically, inspired guesswork. It is the “inspired” aspect, which has yet to be defined as to how, but not as to whether it delivers.

Abduction is best thought of as a part of your nature that is astounding in its power to reach conclusions by connecting a known pattern, from a statistical total of million of possibilities, for the perfect, and perhaps only, solution to the situation at hand. While computers and machines can out-shine us in deductive and inductive calculations, we are, at our “intuitive level,” absolutely outstanding pattern makers, this, even though you were to unaware of your natural brilliance in abduction.

Psychologists find that much of what we call casually label “instinct” is pattern recognition at a subconscious or preconscious level. We may not be able to explain our instinctive impressions rationally or “see” the logic, but be assured your instincts let your “body” know exactly what is going on! It is at such times that doubt and lack of understanding will override our intuition. Interestingly enough, this conscious conflict with one's instinctive level is among the most vivid forms of neurosis.

To understand instinct or intuition, to use it naturally, often the hardest part is overcoming the fact that the intuitive process in subtle ways contradicts all you were taught about making good decisions, such as framing problems, devising alternatives, and collecting all available facts before evaluating the options. The mistake is after logical consideration, finally stepping back to “see how your intuition “feels” about it. When asked how he made major decisions, the founder of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud, replied, “I toss a coin. Then I see how I feel about it.”

Unfortunately, particularly when seeking clues where all is unknown, such as locating something lost or hidden, determining what is real, or to evaluate the intent of another person; by habit most people use only their level of conscious thought at whatever level is in progress at that moment. They only look for some element of logic or reason that would makes “sense” to them.

Of course there are decisions, as well as meanings and rational terms, which are strictly rational, and governed by rules of such logic. There are standard procedures and practices that are proven to work where the decision process is 100% in the realm of reason and what is knowable; here we apply the proper rule.

When the problem is complex, however, when too much is simply unknowable, it cannot be solved purely by rational analysis. Then your chances for success fall into the exclusive realm of the intuitive process, with which you “came from the factory” beautifully equipped, though without an instruction manual.

Though hinted at earlier, I would like to further define one level of neurosis as “the basic inability to trust one's own instincts,” this, as neurosis is opposite of self-trust. Frankly, in this respect, almost everyone is somewhat neurotic; it is part of our culture of self-doubt and, at this point in history, an almost universal lack of self-knowledge about our remarkable inborn potential. Furthermore, people rarely develop trust in something they don't comprehend.

So right or wrong, by default most of us unknowingly instill the power of their trust to casual assumptions of our self-worth and our uninformed notion of their abilities. These notions of our intuitive capacities are based solely on cultural myths and conjecture. Regardless of how nonsensical, arcane, or absurd one assumes intuition to be, today's reality is this it is their dismissive notion of doubt that has been proven to be “nonsensical, arcane, and absurd, and but a common reflection of the ignorance surrounding this universal, even common, yet most-powerful survival skill.

Here is the dilemma people face, once they buy into the assumption that intuition is just mythology: Then, they do not merely “hold” those assumptions, for at that point it is their assumptions that own them, becoming their reality and erroneously defining what is impossible or probable for them. This is where one's natural connection to access their intuition is usually locked out.

Furthermore, as most people are without the specialized education to provide the facts, this lack of understanding also leads to assuming that even when it is proven others can, they can't. The personal loss from such a misguided opinion is another confirmation to a universal rule stating that “without fail, without exception, life subtracts from your worth the full value of that which you don't know.” Another perspective states “the highest cost in life is for time spent, whereas the highest return in life is from time invested in learning who you are, discovering what you can do, and educating yourself as to how you get it done.” As with anything, only when you know, are you ready to go. The more you know, the further you can go.

The dilemma we all must face is the fact that we have no alternative to our intuition, because sometimes your instincts are the only tool with the depth needed to know at a level outside the “frequency” or “range” of what is knowable at the conscious-level, and safely, confidently, turn a no-know into a go, or, a no-go. Just remember that in this matter, your only “enemy” are any of the past assumptions than in any way result in loss of self-trust, based in neurosis over knowing better. Be fully aware that negativity, pessimism, and especially, cynicism are forms of a common mental disorder that, in this context, robs you of the freedom to even question old assumptions, whereas skepticism is healthy, and part of a decision process.

Think of developing one's natural intuition as mostly a process of learning to get out of the way, to be calm and allow oneself to be a part of “the silence within,” then turn your focus elsewhere as you wait for answers, not seek to devise them.

Next is turning away from the habit of validating as fact, as reality, mere feelings of insecurity. Nor reverting to the culturally instilled insistence on finding a way to always “rationalize” impressions to validate them, recognizing this is a self-limiting assumption and essentially self-ignorance in action. It helps to know you are NOT rationalizing in such instances, rather, you are trying to justify your instincts in the manner of seeking to emotionally justifying a “decision,” thus to define it as a choice of logic and reason; such as seeking to justify an expensive purchase, when what you had already would do.

Comprehend that what your “gut” has to tell you IS important, and be conscious of the profound fact that it is many times better at spotting patterns than your logical mind; that this is one area in which you are better than any computer. Yet, if you're “average,” if you do not know better, your are restricted to the debilitating childhood habit of trying to use instinct as a tool of logic, by attempting to rationally justifying whatever your instincts give you, which is an unworkable cycle of only accepting what you already know, in areas where the unknowable is the objective.

There are times that “test the soul of man.” During a divorce, death of a loved one, health issues, and such, which is when intuitive guidance is most needed, we find the even the enlightened can revert too much to emotional habits. Understand that during brief periods of insecurity, even those trained to let go and function at a highly intuitive level, and, therefore earning incomes in the top 10%, have been known to stumble and self-talk themselves out of remarkably accurate insights. The solution to this, and a key to all intuition, is go with the first impression -- second-guessing, the neurosis factor, will defeat you every time.

While decisiveness, itself, has great power, it also clears your mind and allows you to fully focus on to the next objective. You want to look for, and hold onto, first impressions, even write them down, especially if they pertain to first impressions of people, as it is a powerful faith builder to look back later and marvel at what insight could “see” that you could not see, hear, touch, or know from years of experience. We decide whether we “like” someone in the first five seconds of meeting them, which is one aspect of intuition we use and accept, often, only because we do not realize this conclusion is a produce of intuition, not rational judgment.

In a psychological study of firefighters, it was found that “intuition was everything.” In the swirl and confusion, it was established that a rational decision or, second-guessing, “always seemed to come up short.” It was learned that firefighters don't weigh alternatives; rather, they “grab the first idea that seems good enough, then the next, and the next after. To them it doesn't even feel like deciding.”

In a study of professional traders working the floor of the stock exchange, it was intuition running the show. Successful traders had learned to be willing to act decisively on imperfect and contradictory information without second-guessing the first impression. The rule they follow is to promptly act on the thought or inspiration, as intuitive solutions are subject to “the law of rapidly diminishing return,” or, as the poet stated, “God is in the moment.”

So, no second-guessing to intuitive “first answers,” as second-guessing is a neurosis factor; do ask yourself, however, a second question regarding the subject that would amplify the subject, but not cross-examine it. For example, in my leisure time I delight in treasure hunting. If I am deciding where to invest time looking for a treasure cache, and in response my “gut” tells me “there is something hidden at a specific site,” I ask myself what type of valuable it could be, what kind of person would do such a thing, or even how long ago was it hidden and so on.

This is important, both in understanding you instinctive nature, and in other areas of your life: It is vital to realize the peculiarity that in rational endeavors we only seek answers, however in intuitive matters we strive to pose the right questions. This, because the quality of the question will determine the quality of the answer, the amplification, or the solution you bring back from the silence. Just be sure to frame your questions in a solution-oriented attitude, rather than problem-oriented. Not what is wrong with this picture, but what is the answer that will further the illumination? Dwell on results, not what could go wrong.

Eventually, as with everyone evolving his or her understanding, with education you can only be amazed at the information your intuition will give you, especially when you are proficient at taking it to the second step via the second question. I found it especially interesting that commodity traders and traders on the floor of the stock exchange, in particular, were trained to use the second-question rule without fail, to follow-up every “hunch,” and then the next. Besides, if going for the second-question on, one is directing their intuition to the next objective, and one is less likely to fall into the trap of second-guessing.

Another detail in intuitive strategy is to look for “meaningful coincidences,” and learn to notice patterns at any and all levels, to encourage them to surface at will, whether your conscious mind finds them meaningful, trivial, or even silly. This freedom to recognize without rational censorship is another aspect in evolving to a point of trusting what your instincts “see,” even when it is at a level where you can't explain the relevance.

It is helpful to understand that at the intuitive level, it is less a case of analyzing the solution than contemplating it indirectly. The known source of all creativity and insights, you could say instincts do not calculate a solution; they arrive at it without you being able to explain it, as you are using your inherent ability to pull “consciously-unseen” solutions from the gaps between your conscious thoughts. While, in the professional world, appreciation for “these gaps” is as fundamental a fact as “an iceberg is more than its tip,” it does lack, however, that sense of hands-on control and security we feel with conscious reasoning. So intuition requires, and is powered by, self-confidence, learning anew to overshadow self-doubt by placing trust within, and making a new agreement with reality by assuming there is a solution to every situation. Men of faith would say, “let go and let God.”

Of this there is no doubt, no question of validity: Intuition is a part of you with downright astonishing abilities to organize and interpret information, then look for answers from a different realm than the conscious level of your ordinary thought process. In commenting on intuition, Einstein said “No problem can be solved on the same level at which you meet it.”

Einstein also proved that, when it arises solely from “common sense,” certainty is unfounded. His was but one more example that people become great when they learn to listen to their intuition. It could also be said that people become great when they end their unnatural separateness from their instinctive side by learning to “tune-in,” and, move beyond neurotic self-doubt, allow their consciousness to expand naturally in every direction, at which time dormant forces, faculties, talents dead or nonexistent, come alive.

In formal corporate training, businesspeople are taught how to notice what their instincts are telling them in a psychological technique known as “focusing.” This involves making them aware of the significance of recognizing the “felt sense” that tells them their “gut” is telling them something they can't articulate, or accessing material within themselves they usually ignore, as well as those things to which they are so habituated they can no longer “see” them within their ordinary conscious processing. The end result is balancing and empowering the rational with a deliberate focus to validate choices with what comes from within, bringing into play those potent intuitive and subsurface powers that otherwise would get drowned out by the noise and silly chatter that is ever-present in the conscious mind.

The outcome has been teaching professionals the values of developing a willingness to get out of the way and just listen to what their “felt senses” have to tell them, without interjecting an agenda of their own. This readiness to listen without rejection is fundamental, as insecure, neurotic people can come up with an endless array of second-guessing and so-called “reasons” for ignoring what their “gut” is trying to tell them.

Take a clue from the bottom line in professional training, which is learning to listen, to listen to that inner sense of what is right, wrong or probable, to appreciate that your “inner voice” is what guides you, inspires you, keeps you safe, protects you, shows you the way to go, and prompts your decisions by giving you information only it can “see.” Just remember that successful people aren't those who always make the right decisions, but those who make their decisions right, then use the intense power of intuitive feedback to self-correct if needed.

You could say that your intuition is your only access to a level of intelligence within you beyond the limitations, the capabilities, the very design of your conscious mind. It creates unique solutions, tells you “things” you need to know when they are unknowable at the conscious level and, in all areas of your life, the more you know the further you can go.

So far we have only discussed sound psychological understandings of the day, and there is a rule in writing for the general public that says that regardless of how much you have to edit out, you should never tell the audience more than they are able to believe the first time around. So while it is perilous for me to move even slightly outside those boundaries, my instincts tell me I have an obligation greater than my well-being, to at least prompt and lessen the shock from some of the particulars about your intuitive nature you will likely be reading about in the future. Even though we have a basic handle on what your intuition can do and how you can do it, I want you to be fully aware that there is also a vast array of intuitive aspects we know to be true, which are still light-years beyond our present understanding. So, if you are part of the group that could be labeled “Oh yee of little faith,” fasten your seatbelt as a brief sampling follows:

There is a common precept, which is almost universally accepted in specialized professional circles, “that the human mind is somehow capable of accessing all that is knowable in their Universe.” Broad put it this way; “Each person is capable of remembering all that has happened to him and of perceiving everything happening in the universe.” Likewise in nearly identical words, Huxley put it this way; “Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has happened to him and that is happening everywhere in the universe.” Whereas in modern physics the belief is in something labeled as the “fifth field,” which is found to somehow “subtly connect our mind with the universe.” If you want to further research this understanding of the “fifth field” in physics, it is technically referred to as a “vacuum-based zero-point holo-field.”

These beliefs are further amplified by the clear understanding, and well-documented evidence, that somehow we are all connected (or resonate) at certain levels, depending upon what interests the individual. For example, were you aware that we have known for over a century that when people are working on an invention, when one person finds the solution, others working on the same problem get the same solution at the same time, regardless of where they are on the globe? Perhaps the best-known example of this was Mr. Bell being awarded the patent for the telephone, only because of the earlier clock-time in which his patent was filed. The next runner-up for receiving an identical patent had made the mistake of delaying his patent filing by first stopping for a haircut!

If that isn't odd enough for you, we have well-documented evidence we even have a precognitive faculty at work, whether or not we are aware of it, or, for that fact, even believe it is possible. Of course in western culture, sensing an event ahead of time is beyond our comprehension, regardless of how one ponders it. Western culture does not have a valid concept of time, unless a neither physicist, nor can most of us frame “time” beyond next payday. In western culture we measure time as if we were counting beans, and our minds only recognize three element of time: The past, the present, the future, and do not recognize or appreciate the fourth element, which is “elsewhere.” This leads to understandings that our present culture cannot grasp, but even some really odd, and, esoteric, understandings that would make some hysterical, and almost all uncomfortable. Just one example is the perspective: “One does not have to die, one gets to die.” Try that one on most of us in this culture? I suggest you don't casually drop that phrase in a conversation with your friends and expect to maintain your present level of acceptance.

Whereas, we can talk about precognition by quoting documented cases, and still be considered “sane.” One especially compelling example can be found within the study of disasters. It is established, as fact, that due to this yet-mysterious intuitive ability, the number of passengers on accident-bound trains, planes, or ships, is less than on corresponding schedules indicate there should have been. This observable fact goes back many years. In one instance, the general public knows this forewarning aspect of intuition. This is because of the publicity generated by the unusually large number of people canceling their passage on the 1912 voyage of the Titanic. Also, it is revealing to note that when asked, later, what led them to opt out, and most often at the last possible instant, Titanic no-shows were unable to give any better reason than they “felt,” or “thought” it somehow “unlucky.”

I could go on and on with the oddities, some of which can be downright spooky, however, I suspect that for too many readers, it would just cast doubt on what is truly credible, well understood and usable for them today. My aim is to at least make you aware that more is known to be viable and observable about the power of intuition than is understood or, particularly, to the uneducated in such matters, believable. I deem, however, that it's best to take what we do know at this time and use it as it was intended, without reaching for tomorrow's answers to today's riddles.

At this date, however, we can state with absolute certainty that intuition is part of our nature. That it is subtle, it doesn't shout. That all it asks is we just notice and pay more attention to that subtle awareness we feel inside.

We must be fully aware of always being open to, and on the lookout for, that inner wisdom from inspiration so easily drowned-out by the never-ceasing drone of psychological noise, the constant chatter of the mind that afflicts every person in our current environment.

Please remember that the root meaning of “intuition” is simply “to look at.” Yet, be aware, that by your nature, the way in which your mind is “wired,” you see only what you're looking for at that moment, what you want to see. Also understand the world, the time in which you live, is one in which man has developed a powerful logic ego with the primary attitude of existence as one of mistrust; we are always prepared for the worst and looking to play it safe. Our Western civilization is a monument to the success of this approach, likewise is Western science. Nonetheless be assured that a scientist who mistrusted his intuition would be more than just a bad scientist, he would be a failure without needed insights, as intuition does not like to answer a “field of consciousness where doubt dominates.”

In seeking to access our intuitive nature, the process is one of being natural, getting to know and using your inherent survival skills to their fullest. Once you are clear about your purpose, learning to “look inside” for solutions, and remember that nothing works better than solitude and silence, of which wise men say, “Silence is God's voice.” After the needed solution has been defined, we need to just get quiet, peaceful and think about nothing specific, but perhaps something that pleases you, or brings you peace.

Be aware that when the intuitive answer does come, it usually just pops up and, most often, when you least expect it, when you are mentally “elsewhere.” (Remember this aside; in quantum physics, “elsewhere” is the fourth element of time)

When you are ready, when you understand enough, when you trust “self” enough, gently learn to put your “gates” to the outside world in their proper perspective and seek to balance them with the feelings and inspirations that come from deep inside. Your “gates” are your senses of sight, smell, hearing and touch, the conscious flow from the outside world. If you make all decisions, only move forward and act by just these “gates” to the world, over and above, and at the cost of what comes from within, you obey only foreign commands, as “whatever comes through the gates is foreign.”

In the process of learning to grow and trust another sense and perspective, please don't be concerned about limitations or ingrained insecurities, rather, accept that when you are ready they just go away -- it's how we grow. The familiar “miracle” of growth readily applies to the development of your inherent intuition and all of the seeming “miracles” of intuition. After all, the miracles of human instincts to which all have access do not defy the laws of nature, but obey laws of the universe, many of which are not fully comprehended by the public, and just as many are not yet defined by science, if ever. This much we can define for certain, and it is that all the laws defining miracles are still “on the books,” and in force, not one has been repealed.

So how do you know an idea is an intuitive answer? For the most part, your intuition will deliver the answer full-blown into your conscious mind, and often from “out of the blue,” most frequently as a blinding flash of the obvious; we use the analogy of a light bulb coming on to illustrate this. It will come with all the energy you need to carry it out, most usually with the urge to do it right now! I like the way Brian Tracy put it; “The solution will be `note perfect' the first time.” Intuitive answers are distinctive in as much as they are usually complete in every possible detail.

What nearly everyone finds most miraculous and hard to accept is the fact that an intuitive answer will sometimes bring information, seemingly from outside his or her own personal experience, and not just information from outside their individual knowledge, but even from a time before their lifetime! I personally consider one of the best-documented example of this, as well as the most incredible, the hunch that led to the discovery of the white cedar old-growth logs used to roof Philadelphia's Independence Hall and the three-foot shingles you can see today on many of that area's historic homes.

By the 1800's the supply of New Jersey white cedar had been completely depleted. In a flash of intuition that is beyond explanation, an unexplained hunch suggested that beneath a New Jersey swamp there would be a treasure of submerged old-growth cedar from ancient forests. Not only was this “gut feeling” correct, it was beyond accurate as buried in the mud at the swamp bottom were layers of fallen cedar trunks to a depth of twelve feet! The logs had been buried under water for up to 1,000 years, but were perfectly preserved.

(As an aside, there was a similar report some twenty years ago of an almost identical find in the millpond of the Walker Brothers' Lumber Mill in Walker, Texas. That find gave the mill a fresh supply of old-growth logs after it had closed in the 1950's due to a lack of logs. In that instance, however, a former worker informed Mr. Walker of the possibility and, as I understand it, intuition was not a determining factor.)

While the examples of the log finds are used for their simplicity as natural objects, the way they were located is obviously extremely unnatural to most people. Yet these brief documentations do demonstrate and give a degree of proof as to just how esoteric, odd, and incredible the power of our natural intuition's ability to pull information from the unexpected, and to connect patterns our rational minds are not equipped to bring to our attention.

For the most successful life possible, it requires balance, a healthy balance between your rational mind, your emotions, and a thoughtful recognition and respect for the instinctive nature you were given at birth, over an outright rejection. My treasure hunting friends will have better treasure finds, along with better tomorrows, which are not only possible, but also more probable when underwritten by a natural development of trust in the most loyal adviser you have.

Within the cycle of the thought process determining your quality of life, everything matters. When making the decisions that direct you through life, everything counts for something, or it subtracts from something you want or need. Often, everything depends on using the right “tool” to shape your perspective, such as the unique skills of your inborn instincts rather than pure chance. Once you know the facts, it is easy to conclude that ignoring intuition is a tragic waste of one of our most remarkable natural resources, so fire your smugness and certainty, and hire curiosity, wonder and openness.

I would ask you to consider these questions: If birds have wings and instincts telling them how to use them, if cats have kittens with instincts directing the complex delivery process, if, in countless species, it is the power of instinct that gives quality, survival and direction to life itself, what about us? Why, too, were we born with such powerful instincts?

While we are unable to see or touch these “things” we label as thoughts and instinct, science documents their effects, what they do, as conclusively as the unseen flow of electricity through a power line, so why should we question intuition, but accept the concept of electricity? Is the law of cause and effect enough to justify accepting something as real, as complete, from observing only half the evidence -- just the effect? Are we even “wired” to understand the unseen, the other side, or in some ways do we still, as our ancestors, view the moon and believe all there is to anything is the half we can see?

Could that loss include access to our most basic survival birthright, that which provides us with the insight to guide our way to a more successful life, the source of inspiration to get to that place in life of which we dare to dream?

If you were minus self-doubt, free to assume a solution always exists, and were educated to the point you knew enough to trust that when you need to know, the tutor will appear; then so armed with the proven reality of the universal knowledge that your instincts are only there to serve you; then, about what would you dare to dream?

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