Chapter 14 Chapter 13 Intuition: A Non-Explanation

Can intuition be explained scientifically?Is it a pair phenomenon of the mind? Intuition cannot be explained scientifically, because this phenomenon is unscientific and irrational.Intuitive phenomena are irrational.You ask: "Can intuition be explained?" This is linguistically sound, and it means: Can intuition be reduced to reason?But intuition means something beyond the intellect, something that is not of the intellect, something that comes from somewhere that the intellect is completely unaware of.So the intellect can feel it, but cannot explain it. The jump can be felt because there is a gap.Intuition can be felt by the intellect - it can be recorded: something happens, but it cannot be explained, because explanation implies causation.Explanation means: where does it come from?Why are you here?what is the reason?And the intuition comes from somewhere else, not from the intellect itself, so there is no intellectual reason.On the intellectual side, there is no reason, no clue, no continuity.

Intuition is a different field of occurrence which has nothing to do with the intellect, although it can penetrate the intellect.It must be understood that a higher reality can penetrate a lower reality, and a lower reality cannot penetrate a higher one.Intuition can penetrate intellect because it is higher; intellect cannot penetrate intuition because it is lower.It is as if your mind can penetrate your body, but your body cannot penetrate your mind; your being can penetrate your mind, but your being cannot penetrate being.That's why, if you are going into the being, you have to separate from your body and your mind, from both.They cannot penetrate a higher phenomenon.

When you enter a higher real world, that lower world that happens has to be dropped.In the lower world there is no interpretation of the higher world, because the words of explanation there do not exist, they are meaningless.But the intellect can feel the gap, it can know the gap, it can feel that "something beyond me has happened".Even reason can only do so much, and it has done a lot. But the intellect can also refuse, and that's what it means to be called a believing mind or a non-believing mind.If you feel that those things that the intellect cannot explain do not exist, then you are a non-believer, then you remain in this lower plane of existence - bound by it, then you do not recognize the mysteries, then You just don't allow your intuition to speak to you.That's what a rationalist mind means.Rationalists do not even see the transcendence that has come.

Muhammad was chosen.There are many, many scholars around, but Muhammad was chosen because he had faith.He can allow the higher to enter into him.If you were rationally trained, you would not recognize the higher, you would deny it, you would say, "It cannot exist, it must be my imagination, it must be my dream. Unless I can reason confirm it, or I will not accept it." A rational mind becomes closed, it is closed within boundaries created by reason, so that intuition cannot penetrate.But you can use the intellect without closure, that way you can use the intellect as a tool and yet you remain open, you accept the higher.If something comes, you accept it.In this way, you can use your intellect as an aid, which will register "something beyond me happened", which can help you understand the gap.

Not only that, but the intellect can be used to express—not to explain, but to express.A Buddha is totally non-interpretive, he is expressive, not explanatory.All the Upanishads are expressive without any interpretation.They say, "This is how it is, this is how it is, this is what happens. If you want, come in, don't stand outside. From inside to outside, there is no possibility of any explanation. So just come in, Be an insider." Even when you're in, things won't be explained to you, but you'll know and feel them.Reason can try to understand them, but it is doomed to be a loser.The higher cannot be reduced to the lower.

① "Upanishads": one of the ancient philosophical classics of Brahmanism. ——Editor's note Does intuition come to a person through thought waves like radio waves? This, too, is hard to explain.If intuition comes by some kind of wave, then, sooner or later, reason will be able to explain it. Intuition comes through no medium, that's the point.It does not come through a medium!It travels without any tools, that's why it's a leap, that's why it's a leap.If there are certain waves through which it comes to you, then it will not be a leap, it will not be a leap.

Intuition is a jump from one point to another, there is no intrinsic connection between the two points, that's why it is a jump.If I come to you step by step, it is not a leap.It is a leap only if I come to you without taking a step.A true jump is even more esoteric, meaning that something exists at point A, then it exists at point b, with no existence in between.That's a real jump. Intuition is a leap.It is not something that comes to you.That is a linguistic error.It is not something that comes to you, it is something that happens to you -- something that happens to you without any causality, without any source, from nowhere.This sudden occurrence is intuition.If it is not sudden and totally discontinuous with what was past, then reason will find the way.It will take some time, but it can be done.If some kind of x-ray, some wave or whatever brought it to you, then reason would have the ability to know, understand and control it.Someday, then, an instrument will be invented -- like a radio or a television, through which intuition can be received.

If intuitions come by rays or waves, then we can make an instrument to receive them.No instrument can gain intuition because it is not a wave phenomenon.It is not a phenomenon at all, it is just a leap from nothing to being. Intuition means just that.That's why reason denies it.Reason denies it because reason has no capacity to encounter it, reason can only encounter phenomena which can be divided into cause and effect. According to reason, there are two realms of existence: the known and the unknown. The unknown means that which is not yet known, but which will be known someday.But religion says there are 3 realms: the known, the unknown and the unknowable.According to the unknowable, religion means that which can never be known.

Intellect is contained in the known and the unknown, not in the unknowable.Intuition works in relation to the unknowable, it cannot be known.It's not just a matter of time before it's recognized. "Unknowability" is its inherent intrinsic quality.It's not that your instruments aren't good enough, your logic is outdated, or your math is too primitive - that's not the problem.The intrinsic quality of the unknowable is the unknowable, and it will always exist as the unknowable, which is the realm of intuition. When something from the unknowable is known, it is a leap.It's a jump!There is no connection, no passage, no movement from one point to another.But it looks incredible, so when I say something like "you can feel it, but you can't understand it", I know very well that I'm talking nonsense.Nonsense simply means "it's beyond our senses to comprehend it".And the mind is a sense, the subtlest sense, wisdom is also a sense.

Intuition is possible because the unknowable is there.Science denies the existence of the divine because it says: "There is only one division: the known and the unknown. If there is any God, we shall discover him by the experimental method, and if he exists, science will discover him." " Religion, on the other hand, says: "No matter what you do, something in the basis of existence will remain unknowable—a mystery." And if religion is wrong, then I think science will destroy the foundation of life. The whole meaning.If there is no mystery, the whole meaning of life is destroyed, the whole beauty of life is destroyed.The unknowable is beauty, meaning, desire, and goal.Because of that unknowable, life means something.When everything is knowable, then everything is dull, and you will be terribly bored, bored.The unknowable is the secret, it is life itself.

I think: rationality is an effort to know the unknown, while intuition is the happening of the "unknowable".It is possible to penetrate the unknowable, but impossible to explain it.Sensation is possible, but interpretation is impossible. The more you try to explain it, the more closed you become.So don't try it.Let reason work in its own domain, but always remember: there are deeper realms, deeper reason than reason can comprehend, and higher reason than reason can imagine.