"@impassionate How do you discern what is unvarnished truth and unbiased opinion in predictions? I'm serious...how does someone know?"
Lowtide's question is the perfect one for all of us who are working on using and improving our intuition.
Like the celebrated Mickey Mantle who only got on base one third of the time, we are all flawed in our attempts to achieve perfection. So, a healthy amount of self reflection is in order. Otherwise we end out leaning towards those days when they burned people at the stake because of people's intuitions about them.
There are so many competing factors that cause humans to be imperfect in their intuitions, that I'd wager that the very best intuitives in time are correct less than fifty percent of the time. The famed Edgar Cayce claimed incorrectly that Atlantis would rise in 1967. Hundreds of believers waited along the Atlantic coast to see it. The celebrated Baba Vanga likely never made and certainly didn't write down any world predictions, so ignore Internet claims, many originating from her niece who is profiting from her aunt's fame. And I was famously wrong about Harris becoming president. That mistake deserves its own thread.
As for the rest of us, we remember when we're right but the ego dims our mistakes.
But we can learn from our mistakes. So it is good to keep trying, because intuitive wisdom is our own way of finding our inner voices, our true selves.
We need to be humble about it, and yet, confident that we each have this inner wisdom and not succumb to someone else's louder voice. When that happens, we might as well be in a cult.
We need to be open to our mistakes. This work is personal, individual, and nuanced. We need to be able to see our attempts at intuitive wisdom in shades of grey, rather than black and white.
The reason that spirit visions or intuitions are a mystery going back to the beginning of time is that we can never be sure. Yet our efforts to improve our intuition are among the most important ways we can evolve as people, as a species.
We need to be open to our mistakes. This work is personal, individual, and nuanced. We need to be able to see our attempts at intuitive wisdom in shades of grey, rather than black and white.
The reason that spirit visions or intuitions are a mystery going back to the beginning of time is that we can never be sure. Yet our efforts to improve our intuition are among the most important ways we can evolve as people, as a species.
Love this, @jeanne-mayell It really reminds us of what we are doing here on this site. Learning! Trying to deepen our own skills, connect to parts of our human experience that many of us have lost in modern society. This learning process and our evolution through it is the future.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom on @lowtides question. I know I have learned so much from you about intuition both here on the site, through your classes and from the Circle of Light. I have also appreciated learning from other members of the forum. There is so much yet to discover, a life long process of growth and understanding. We are blessed to be able to grow here, make mistakes and develop awareness. Thank you!
@jeanne-mayell I am not an intuitive but a medium. All is energy. My belief that there were wide mistakes in the predictions regarding the recent election was because of everyone reading the collective energy of the participants. As a medium you are blending with spirit but there are many things that can break the blending and the medium will drop psychic, reading the sitter verses communicating for the spirit. One of the biggest culprits in loosing connections is fear. I know that so many of us were fearful. You guys were not wrong you were just reading a different very strong energy - desire.
@lowtide that is honestly a fantastic question. I dont know how to tell others what to look for. I really wish I did because you're right without some kind of compass how do you know? For me I just know. I get feelings in my body and my mind just clicks with it and I just know. And when something does not eing turned to me I dig into that subject and absorb everything. (I'm a paralegal tho so that's just my nature)
I'm tuned out since the election. I am however on a self-finding mission. I've been meditating every single morning, walking in nature, asking to keep my vibration high and my fears low so I can communicate with my spirit guides.
All I can say is that Jeanne once said, we all made it to this community together for a reason. I think about that often. We have found each other for a purpose. We all may be on different paths but all are heading to the same place.
Maybe it's as simple as trusting our instincts and trusting each other and talking through things like rational thoughtful human beings.
I've always disagreed with "you never talk politics or religion ". That's why we are where are!!!!!! No one knows how to have a civil discussion anymore but that will take me on a another rant. Lol.
@jeanne-mayell So true. I felt compelled to say here that we do all have free will. I'm not 100% convinced that all the predictions were "wrong", however. I truly believe he stole the election and that shifted the timeline we had all hoped to be on by now. I believe that it is possible for toxic positivity to blind us to the worse possibilities of humanity. (Fear of predicting death or other such things-arent these things also apart of all of us, of life?) I think we all learned a valuable lesson its just a shame it has to be so damn harsh!
Long term lurker from Michigan here (shout out to DannyBoy!) @Tara, I really resonate with your last 2 posts. I don’t visualize things, but I do get visceral feelings, usually my heart chakra feels an expansion, and then something pops into my mind and I just know. Also if I’m suddenly moved to tears while thinking and/or speaking about something, then I take that as “message received “ from the Universe. I am a retired city clerk and elections administration was part of the job. Tara, I agree with you: the last election was stolen.
To add to this, my intuition kept telling me all along that this would happen. It felt like 2016 again and I knew after Biden’s first debate performance. I clung to hope after Harris became the candidate but my gut told me it wasn’t to be. What’s interesting about my intuition is that it never comes from a place of fear or hope; it’s like something I’m not noticing is being pointed out to me or it’s telling me that I already have the answer to some of these painful questions. It has no emotion, it just *is* and I refused to acknowledge it because it was just too terrifying to consider otherwise. I ignored it because I wanted to believe it wasn’t true. I also didn’t believe that people could be so delusional and so cruel- other than the MAGAt cultists, how could anyone else vote for that monster again?
@nelysthealchemist I feel the same. It was so bad right after Nov 5 that I started researching "Exit Points". Did find some interesting and positive information during that search, which helped me hold on, until I just read the latest predictions. Now I'm back on the ledge. Why do we have to suffer, just so the backfill people can learn their lesson, which probably won't sink in anyway?