Our Intelligent Intuition

// Ignacio Oreamuno

The human language is very limiting. Our full reality in the world, requires much more than words to understand and experience. There is a line where languages reaches the limit of what it can explain, paint and define. Words are like a narrow river that once it reaches the ocean, it simply disappears and merges into the all.

The language of nature is wise but doesn't speak in words. Learning to hear nature is about listening and feeling its wordless message. Can you hear the forest grow? The birds speak bird, the trees speak tree, and the mushrooms speak mushroom but they all seem to get along and understand each other pretty well.

Do you observe nature from a scientific point of view and identify tree, birds and insect species, or do you take the artists approach and notice shadows, shapes, patterns, and symbols in the forest? A deep thinker strolling a trail might be so buried inside his mind that he won't notice anything, while a city dweller might be completely focused on his feet staying firmly in the path, afraid of what would happen should he go off the trail. We are all experiencing nature differently. Learning to speak nature requires being open to the possibility that our senses were partly closed off to some of its signals.

A few years ago I began to take a closer look at my feelings during full moon cycles. I began to notice that highly marked moments of my life seemed to peak with the moon as if my heart, and the tides of the world were somewhat connected. I didn't understand it, but I began to acknowledge the possibility that it wasn't mean to be understood.

A deep dive into the topic finds a lot of studies that appear to show a deep correlation between our bodies and the moon. Earth's silver satellite has been linked to deeply affect human's sleeping patterns, mood, and even menstrual cycles.

I decided to begin trusting my senses, and simultaneously, to distrust my brain. This was akin to raising my human antenna, so that I could pick up stronger signals from the energy of nature. The quality of my life and mental health has improved dramatically by giving myself permission to rewrite the rules of my sensorial experience.

Intelligence isn't sitting in your version of the truth and resisting to budge to new ideas, on the contrary, intelligence is the ability to be always questioning, always open, and always ready and willing to demolish old ideas, concepts and constructs that exist in the foundation of your mind.

Throwing out old ways of thinking cleans the closets of our minds so that fresher, cleaner, and more virtuous truths from our 'intelligent intuition' can inhabit us.