An intuitive thought perceived and acted on now, may take into account events we do not yet know about – future events or possibilities helpfully casting their shadows upon our present awareness. Can we really see into the future in this way? Accessing our own intuition, listening and following the voice within – the soul voice – will lead us in directions we can’t imagine. - Sir Laurens van der Post

We all hear many voices: personal inadequacy – expectations from others – feelings from past experiences – uncertainty about the future, etc. Our intuitive or soul voice is a different frequency and has a unique tone, often drowned out by ‘the chattering monkey’ in our heads. During healing, meditation dreaming or daydreaming, a person may touch into this higher frequency. We can enhance this fine-tuning by exercising our ability to listen in normal circumstances. In conversation for example, do you concentrate on what a person is saying, words and feelings, or are you preoccupied with your opinions and what you’ll say back to them – or “I don’t have time – he or she is not that important – it’s going to rain – that’s a nice car or attractive person who just went by?” Learning to listen is an art to be exercised.

With many threatening problems mounting in our world and our own personal challenges to be addressed, it would be well for each of us to access our intuitive voice. Many people, I observe, are intent to clarify this finer sensitivity in the interest of growth and survival, perhaps enhancing collective consciousness – the unseen nameless community Laurens van der Post wrote about in the 1980s. When asked whether this emerging community would be governed by a group of wise men he answered, “I do not think it can be that. It has got to come through the creation of more and more individuals who will take upon themselves the task of leading themselves, and to the extent to which we can lead ourselves properly and decently other men (and women) will follow (our example). It cannot come collectively; it cannot come through groups; not yet, if ever.”

By instinct, animals survive, procreate, raise their young, discern their food base and sense who and what to trust. Accounts of some species spontaneously migrating to avoid earthly crises like earthquakes, cyclones and tidal waves, leave us astonished. In contrast to them we tend to live by social habits, acquiring knowledge and the capacity to reason. Wonderful gifts – but we are over-populating and destroying natural ecosystems on this planet, including our animal co-inhabitants and species of vegetation. What’s missing? Awakening intuition could be our guiding and inspirational instinct. Instead of floundering helpless victims, we can learn to listen and follow our inner voices to solve individual and collective problems, and at the same time find ways to harmonize with the larger shifts and changes coming in our world.

- Ronald Polack

For more:

• on attitudes, see Chapter 9 of the book, Vibrational Vitality
• on healing, see Vibrational Healing

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