Intuition, Synchronicity, and the Collective Unconscious

Uh my question is about intuition. Um my experience with intuition is it doesn't arise in my mind. Um not as a thought anyway. Um or as a as one of the five senses. It's almost like a sixth sense people call that. Um, and then when I follow that, I find myself in these series of maybe we call it synchronicities and they're wonderful. I meet wonderful people. I have a wonderful experience and I'm aware that I have this almost like an impulse that I follow. Um, I guess my question is when I surrender into that, I have these wonderful experiences and I get something out of it, maybe something I needed, something I needed to hear. Um, what am I surrendering to? Is is it like awareness seeping? Is it consciousness is bored and having fun with me? Is it I'm just >> trying to understand where what am I surrendering to when I'm following this intuition. >> Um Monica, you your intuition it's still your finite mind. It's not pure consciousness because it has some quality, some form, some experiential quality. So it's still part of the finite mind. But it's it's that region of your finite mind that you don't have access to during your normal waking state conditions. So it's just outside the sphere of your waking state mind. And the waking state mind is as we know is a relatively small portion of our finite mind. When we have a dream at night, we access a part of our mind that is not accessible to us in the waking state. But it's still part of our mind. So when you experience intuition, you're venturing beyond the the boundary of your waking state mind into a region of your mind that lies just just outside it. It's like when you leave this room, this room represents the finite mind. You leave this room, you don't go straight out into the space outside. You go into a into the hallway. The hallway out there is it's outside this room, but it's not quite the open empty space of the universe. It's a it's so the the room the hallway here represents your your intuition. It's that region of your mind that lies that's not accessible to you under normal conditions in the waking state. Now why do um when you go there why do um synchronistic experiences or un experience why do experiences happen there that don't happen in within the tight parameters of the waking state. It's because as you move from the clearly bounded parameters of the waking state out towards pure consciousness where where there's no boundaries, no limitations, you begin to lose your your limitations. Uh the laws of physics are not as tight in the dream state as they are in the waking state. Uh so so um if you imagine white piece of paper, imagine drawing lots of circles on the white piece of paper. Each circle represents one of our finite minds. And then outside and and you draw draw the each circle with a with a a heavy pencil line. outside each circle draw another circle like like a satellite like another circle more faintly that that would represent the it's still the finite mind but it's that part of the finite mind that's not available in the waking state and now imagine that there are lots of mind lots of circles on this piece of paper that some of the some of the the the the paler circles they they begin to overlap with each So there's there's more there's less separation that the waking state is the state in which our sense of separation is is at its most clearly defined. as you as you move still within the finite mind but into the regions that lie outside the waking state that the sense of separation is is looser and therefore for instance um synchronistic events can take place. You think of someone you haven't thought of for 10 years, you go back to your room and there's an email from them. That's because the it's only in the waking state that we're really separate or seem to be separate. The deeper we go into the regions of our own finite mind, the less separation there is there. The boundaries between minds get fainter and fainter, the more we venture outside the waking state mind. So that that's what's happening when you venture into the these regions and why you experience these synchronistic events and so on. Sometimes I've experienced that I sense something right before it happens, you know, like something I've even um caught a cup that was falling >> that exactly that that I would suggest is because time and space as we know it are only such in the waking state. So we we tend to think that time and space are um inherent in reality itself. No, they're not. There's no time and space in reality. Time and space are just how reality appears to a human mind. When when reality is filtered through thought and perception, it appears as time and space. So time and space are just the product of our finite minds. So as you venture towards the edge of your finite mind outside the the tight parameters of the waking state, time and space begin to lose their grip, their hold. And so as you as you venture more in that direction, um time and space can can be distorted. You can have an intuition. It time and space is not linear when you when you leave the tight parameters of the finite mind. So when you venture into this region of intuition or the personal unconscious or even even more the collective unconscious, that region of our finite minds that that are connected beneath the surface, the time's not a straight line anymore. You past and future, they don't exist outside the waking state mind in the way that we believe they do in the waking state. So you have this intuition. you you um my son Matthew when he was uh 3 years old, he drew a picture at school of um the barns at home in Shruptshire where we lived and it's a an L-shaped barn, an old agricultural barn where I had my studio and kils and he drew the barns with a plume of smoke coming out of the top of them. Three weeks later, my barns burnt down. But because a child's mind, a three-year-old child's mind has not yet been cast, has not been set like our waking state minds are set. Time and space are real. Reality consists of time. that this is just the um this is just the the when our wonderful western education has has enclosed the mind in in these concepts and time and space and they seem to be so concrete so real that it's not it's just the way the finite mind sees reality. So if you if you venture outside the finite the waking state mind as we do for instance in our dreams or as you can do in meditation or or um using psychedelic substances and and um an artist goes there in their imagination. An artist is someone who is in touch with the regions of the mind outside the waking state. So you that time loses its its linear dimension. So it's possible to have an intuition of something. >> Is it okay to dwell there? I guess um am I running away from the the fact that I need to be aware of this? I guess how does awareness >> No, it's fine. I mean exploring that region of your mind won't tell you anything about the nature of consciousness, but that doesn't mean that it's not legitimate to explore it. You know, if you explore um explore mathematics, it won't tell you anything about the nature of consciousness, but that's not a reason for not exploring mathematics or cooking or music or or what it it's valid to explore all those things. But as long as you don't think that you're exploring the nature of consciousness. So, >> right, >> keep keep up exploring the nature of consciousness because exploring the nature of consciousness, it's that's exploring the nature of yourself uh or exploring the nature of reality and and your experience. um our experience tends to unfold in a way that is consistent with our understanding of our self. So that's your primary your primary endeavor is to to know yourself as you truly are. But it's not mutually exclusive. You you can still if you're interested in those realms, then it's fine to explore them. Yes. >> I think it's just happening to me. It's not like I'm looking for it. >> Yeah. So it's happening to you but and you're right to be inquisitive about it if there it's very interesting. No if these synchronistic events you cannot not be interested in in a synchronistic event. It's it's just so it's fine to be interested in it. >> Thank you.