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To: Jamestown1630
There are different kinds of ‘knowing’. Some people derive convictions from extra-sensory faculties, like intuition or convictions that stem from feeling, not intellect.

True, but there's a fine line between intuition and delusion. A person can believe something so strongly, that for them, that thing becomes 'real', but it's only in their mind.

As a long time seeker of personal enlightenment, I can say that I'm very familiar with this phenomenon, so I don't just discount the spiritual realities of others. Just because I can't perceive a thing does not mean it doesn't exist. It just means that I'm incapable of seeing it, or it doesn't exist. I'm willing to allow for either reality, but I can only operate on that which is real to me.

Now, there are also those things which I feel I comfortably know, and which I have great certainty on. Some of those things are outside the norm of everyday 'beliefs', and are part of what we might call the spiritual realm. I *know* these things because I can perceive or communicate with them in some tangible way, even though many others can't.

In the same vein, there are some *truths* that others hold as real, that I'm not capable of perceiving or communicating with. For me, those things are not real, and I won't accept them just because another person claims to have deeper insight or powers of perception than I do.

162 posted on 06/10/2019 6:12:15 AM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier
there's a fine line between intuition and delusion

This is definitely true; or at least, delusion is often interpreted as the product of accurate intuitive apprehension.
163 posted on 06/10/2019 6:15:14 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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