If you see the black arrows, you might miss the white arrows.
We see the obvious well enough, but we only see the unobvious when our attention has been drawn to it. Our attention can be drawn by others, by events, or by our own intuition.
There is much in life which is unobvious. People are not always as they seem, events can have hidden agendas, and nature is full of strange enigmas and perplexing phenomena. We tend to take life at face value until – like Newton and his apple – something prompts us to think again. What we see, once we begin to question face value appearance, depends on what kind of thinking we do.
Logic is fine for dealing with what we know; we can define and label what we know, but we cannot define and label what we don’t know. To think about the unknown, we have to use intuition.
Knowing how to think intuitively increases our ability to see the hidden or unobvious in life. The intuitive mind whispers, like Echo to Narcissus, telling us there is more to the world than the world we see. That is why intuition is sometimes referred to as ‘the voice of the silence’; we have to silence the logical mind to hear it.
I am in the process of setting up Intuition Workshops here in Bath. For those who are interested in learning about intuition and its methods, the workshops may be of interest. The link below provides more details: