Aug 14, 2015
Intuition
Jung believed that intuition was a sense,
a way of gathering information about reality just as important as sight.
Intuition might also be called insight and defined as grasping the
significance of what you see based on a web of feelings and associations that
makes that significance personal. This web acts as a code which gets us from
what we see (signifier) to what this experience means (signified). One has to
be in touch with one's feelings and lack any significant degree of denial in
relationship to previous life experience to trust intuition as a guide to
behavior. I often respond to situations out of what I know without being able
to explain how I know or even what exactly I know with any clarity. This works
out well for me more times than not. I often make decisions that are
intuitively "right" for me without being able to articulate a motive
that would justify those decisions as being "right" in any other
sense. I can, however, often explain the motives behind those decisions in
hind-sight from where making those decisions took me. I almost never know where
I am going or why until I get there. People in denial also only know where they
are and how they got there after the fact and keep returning to that place over
and over again.
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