What are you trying to do to me Beef? Your making me think! Ahh, so we have a skeptic do we?
What I mean by 'gut feeling' is that 'sense' that feeling that can only be explained as a 'gut feeling' because there are no adequate words to explain it otherwise. Women often call it 'womens intuition'. I think everyone has at some point acted on an instinct, a knowing, an intuition that cannot be adequately explained & were proved to be right. Ask them how they knew & they usually say 'I don't know, I just had a feeling'. Ask a women if a gut feeling or her intuition has ever been wrong. Most will say 'no', the remainder 'rarely'.
I was your typical male thinker. If I couldn't see it, touch it, smell it, hear it or rationalise it, then 'it' was shit. Left brain dominant. Now I realise that I indeed have a 'sixth sense' & it has never let me down. Every now & again I just have a strong sense of knowing, even when logic, common-sense & available info. contradict. It has saved me more than once.
I was a street kid at 15, knocking around the back streets & surrounding suburbs of the red-light district, Kings Cross. We got by by being runners [usually packages containing????] scoring pot for the 'fossils' & straights, getting by best we could.
At 17, I was asked to set up a large 'arrangement'. It was a lucrative run, $200 profit for me was good money then. I was kicking on with mates at a tripping party after the drop-off so I had dropped a trip [don't know to this day what was in that blotter, it was a 24hour kick in the head that took up to 2-2 1/2hours to come on].
As I was walking through Hyde Park it was like I was walking into a wind of ill-intent. It felt like a physical force. I somehow 'knew' that I was heading into something nasty. I was debating the pros & cons when this 'internal dialogue' came to the conclusion that this could be done the next day, if nothing happens no harm done. This 'dialogue' happened in an instant. I remember smiling at the feeling of a weight being lifted as I returned the package as I had received them on tic & didn't want to be responsible for them over-night.
Went to the pub at the agreed time. Peter wasn't there but the feared 21 Division were with several under-cover defectives. 21 Division had such a reputation that so-called hard men would be heard spilling their guts crying like little girls as they were heading into the pig-sty. I had been set-up. If I was caught with the package I would have been up shit creek without the proverbial. None-the-less I was 'questioned' for two & a half hours, tripping of my face,sitting in a chair with one cop belting me from behind with a very large phone book [no separate A-K & L-Z back then.
] & another standing in front of me punching me in the head. And a very large one lurking in the shadows not saying much, just intimidating by sheer presence.
If I had ignored that feeling as I walked through Hyde Park, my life would've been very different.
I will never adequately explain my experience so that others can understand 100%. It is something that one needs to experience him/herself. I could share dozens of similar experiences yet it would not really change anothers perspective. Our sixth-sense is subtle by nature, I can't ,nor do I wish to, convince others to change their perspective. It's like trying to explain how good sex is to a virgin. Can you find adequate words so they understand sex as completely as Errol Flynn?
We have all experienced a sense of knowing, a gut-feeling. Not all of us recognise it as the same thing. Years ago when others would say "How the hell did you know THAT???", I would usually shrug my shoulders & say "It must've been obvious."& give it no further consideration. I now have a very different perspective.
I read your link & it was basically a 'what if' theory. With the berry bush analogy, it could be reasonably argued that one would very quickly learn to recognise the shape of it's leaves, it's basic structure knowing that plants that look the same will likely have fruit. Finding unripe fruit would reinforce this & also train the mind to remember. Apes have been observed remembering choice plants that are hidden from view from the rest of the troop & each time they pass that plant , the ape will pretend to pluck a thorn from it's foot as the rest pass by so they can access their stash. Apes. Pot is a good example, show me a stoner who can't spot a plant a mile away & I'll show you a smoker who's either ripped or just plain stupid. There's pleasure associated with the plant, an interest. It's not like we're consciously scanning for pot plants, it's a sub-conscious or instinctual thing, we just notice pot as if it's sticking out like dogs balls.
Ahh science. Science is a perspective. It shows us that an object can be many things depending on observation. The Sun can be viewed as light, as heat,as a frequency to name a few. A tribal Eskimo will view the sun differently than a Bedouin living in the Sahara. Based on their science, as they know it, the Sun is very different because they have different experience, yet they are both right according to their own experience.
I believe that science is another way of observing the Laws of Nature. Laws of Nature are also Spiritual Law. For e.g. Newtons 3rd law of motion states for every action there's an equal & opposite reaction. The Spiritual Law of Karma is the same thing.
To me, there is proof in science of immortal existence of the soul - An energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Our soul is an energy.
Sorry, off topic, dreams. Yes aren't dreams just fascinating. Dreams fall under 3 categories.
1; The nightmare. A reflection of our fears, tensions, negative emotions expressed, or worse, unexpressed.
2; The jigsaw type dream. Unconnected seemingly random ideas. I believe this is our sub-conscious trying to communicate with us.
3; [your going to love this one] The astral travel dream. We have all dreamt of flying. It's common for kids, usually being chased by unseen 'bad man' snatching at their ankles. [Dozens of others & myself share this one]. This is the type of dream where you swear you had visited someone or a place.
I have shared dreams with my twin brother when as kids we shared a room & later, with several girlfriends.
In one dream I was admiring a worked Holden panel van, that I'd seen before, as it drove past while I stood on the footpath across from the aquarium at Manly. Then I realised my girlfriend was there standing on the road when she said "Look, there's that car you like" I shook her awake to tell her to get off the road & when she annoyingly asked "What" I had awoken enough to feel stupid. As a young bloke I didn't believe in this "airy-fairy-girly" nonsense because it didn't fit with my reality & indoctrination. But it fit with hers & she recognised what had happened. She described that dream as I saw it exactly. As it didn't fit in with my restricted thinking at that time, I gave it no further thought.
I could give many many other examples but again, they're my experiences. No-one can take them away from me because it not only happened time & time again, but they were verified in detail by another person. But it's not that convincing to someone who cant relate.
What you say about some dreams coming true, others not, is interesting. I've experienced it many times when younger, not so much lately [usually sleep like a baby. Thank-you Bud God
] When they did come true it was usually the next day never more than 2. Mystics talk about 'probabilities' & 'possibilities' when referring to the future. Timelines. [This is the type of stuff that starts to hurt my head] What we do today dictates what happens tomorrow. What would have happened if out of greed or obstinance I ignored that strong feeling the night the cops got me? The repercussions would affect me to this day. It was a large package. And of course this makes sense. How different would life be if you choose to get married or stay single? Marry Mary instead of Jill? Finish college or drop-out? Have children or not? There are countless possibilities, fewer probabilities. Will Billy die soon? If he stops drinking it's possible, if he doesn't it's probable. Different timelines. So when someone dreams & it doesn't come true, they were simply looking down a different timeline, a different possibility.
'Serious studies' I do not have Beef
It is not my intent to change anyone elses point of view or perspective. If I can assist others to find their Truth then that's great if asked. If an individual chooses to seek Truth with an honest heart & an open mind, then he/she will find Truth according to their 'vibrational' level. There is Truth & there is higher Truth.
Bit off topic Beef but have you heard how scientists say the math proves that there has to be not only other Universe, but an almost infinitesimal amount of other Universe [bugger, someones going to make me google that aren't they? Ahh solly no speaky inglish]
Sorry just realised how long this is & I'm not sure if I answered your question Beef. I've been in quite a bit of nerve pain recently & have had to up my dose of White Shark . I'm so ripped hahaha
