"The Powers & Perils of Intuition" Psychology Today, Dec. 2002, Vol. 35 Issue 6 P 42 In this essay, David G. Meyers, Ph. D., explores the mystery behind the reliability behind intuition and why it is sometimes a force that can't be denied. Our minds operate on two levels: the conscious or deliberate level and the unconscious or automatic level. It seems as if we have two minds: "one for momentary awareness and one for everything else." We tend …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 428 total…short time and when traumatic events occur we do not stay distraught for as long as we may have first believed we would be. Intuition feeds our expertise, creativity, love and spirituality but it can also be perilous. Today's cognitive science aims to fortify it instead of destroying it in order to sharpen our thinking and depend our wisdom. We are learning to think smarter and learning when to ignore the whispers of our intuition.