Jung calls intuition perception via the unconscious. It delivers a whole pattern at once, before the facts line up. The gift is foresight. The price is isolation and blind spots under our noses. The creative process is integration: let intuition speak, then test it and ground it.
Jung – Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 355-356:
“As a child, I felt myself to be alone, and I am still because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible… If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man. And companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.”
Try for seven days to focus on your intuition.
Write one hunch each day in a single sentence.
Name the facts that support or challenge it.
Name the values at stake.
Choose your smallest next step consciously.
When did a hunch save you or rightly warn you?
What do you tend to miss under your nose?
Which function needs strengthening in your personality now – sensation, thinking, or feeling?
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