Intuition - Origin and Definition

[TomasM]

Have you looked into intuition and the effect of psychedelic drugs?

I haven’t. I do have some awareness of both but certainly not how shallow or deep the connection / correlation may be between the two.

What was always there that you couldn't see or sense, now is in conscious awareness. So for people who are not "naturally intuitive", while on a psychedelic drug, are able to experience a lot of the insights and revelations that would come or be accepted more readily by someone who is already "naturally intuitive".

I’m familiar with some of the effects psychoactive drugs have on psychological states but I haven’t explored it to the depth of intuition. There has certainly been some clinical trials and procedures but I believe we are still in the infancy of understanding the true short or long-term use of these altered states - of course my knowledge on this a bit dated.

For the sake of discussion, I think we first have to identify and define a psychoactive drug. I believe you are confining this to drugs like: Ketamine, LSD, DMT, THC, Shrooms, Peyote, etc. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Other prescribed drugs could also be included: anti-(anxiety, depression, psychotic, etc).

Even caffeine, sugar, nicotine, alcohol, and chocolate could fit into the equation.

I’m not trying to alter the course here, only making a note of drugs that alter perception and engagement.

All of that said, I would be interested in knowing how much of an increase in intuitive ability is achieved under an altered state. Seems like that would be really hard to measure - makes me laugh thinking about the person taking notes (no disrespect here, just imagining).

The peripheral nervous system(PNS) collects information from the body which can be processed unconsciously. Thus, the activities of the PNS highly contribute to our intuitive senses of "something", that which we can "sense" but cannot see.

I haven’t been working much with the peripheral nervous system as it pertains to intuition. I have more recently been examining the sympathetic and parasympathetics relationship with some psychological states (primarily anxiety), and consciousness.

It seems as if you know a good deal about the connection between the peripheral system and intuition. I would love to hear more.

Just for clarification, I have moved most of my exploration of consciousness over to the ORCH OR Thread, but I expect that I will create a summary within this thread that starts to tie the two together in the near future. I wanted to create a status blog that provided a centralized status of the topics, and had reached out to the sites administration, but I don’t believe they have a solution [or one that will work within the confines of the platforms design].

Everybody knows, or is aware at some level, of all of this information, but since humans cannot be aware of everything all at once, and since humans cannot make all of the decisions and determinations about everything all at once, humans are compelled to gravitate to what they prefer to look at, determine, and present to the world.

The connection between the sensory and intuitive is a big part of what I’m exploring - the same could be said with the sensory and consciousness. We all have both and preference certainly plays a roll. Where is the demarcation between the two?

The connection between the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and intuition lies in the fact that the PNS transmits sensory information from the body to the brain, which can contribute to our "gut feelings" or intuitive sense of a situation, particularly through the vagus nerve which plays a key role in connecting the gut to the brain, allowing for subconscious processing of information that can influence our decision-making and perception of a situation.

I have explored the Vagus nerve and its connection between the gut and brain. I’ve also been exploring the “flow” of the electrical signals across the neurons within the brain. The traditional model has been that the “flow” of these electrical signals were on the exterior of the neurons but science, as of late, is starting to lean towards a flow that is directed by quantum states within the neurons. The potential implications of this are revolutionary but the science, only 30 years, is still in its infancy. Technology is rapidly accelerating these explorations and the advocates do have credibility in biology (neuro, cellular) and physics.

I’m really leaning towards a non-local perspective of intuition and consciousness but that’s not to suggest that I’m rejecting the old science.


ORCH OR thread (link)