Intuition vs. Instinct

I've been doing a lot of reading about intuition and ran across something that caught my interest the other day.  It made me think about whether instinct is different from intuition or whether intuition is just another form of instinct.

The writer was expressing their feeling that intuition is expressed firstly and clearly in their body.  For example, it would occur when you get that upset stomach feeling or gut feeling before anything specific has occurred in your presence to explain it.

For me, I sometimes get that feeling when someone is angry around me.  It's like my body recognizes the energy of anger and a warning bell goes off.  The anger doesn't have to be directed at me for this to happen.  Now, can this be explained as instinctive behaviour - preparing me to run or fight?  Or as intuition - a connection with a nearby subtle energy field?

I'm thinking that our connection with energy fields is a part of our instinctual behaviours.  If intuition is actually different from instinct than I'd have to say that it is a more evolved form of it.  Where instinct helped to protect us in the past when the lives of the human race were about eat or be eaten; similarly, I think that intuition protects us by incorporating more complicated, yet subtle, information that needs to be interpreted by us for a proper response to the circumstance.  Our choices are more varied now - far beyond the original two of fight or flight.

So, what do you think?  Is intuition an evolved form of instinct?

I welcome your comments on this topic.  Please share your experiences of intuitive moments.

My Interest in Einstein

I've always had a fascination with Albert Einstein and I'm not really sure why.

I still remember, reasonably clearly, a speech I wrote and delivered featuring Einstein as my subject matter.  It was when I was in grade 7 or 8.  And when I say "reasonably clearly", I don't remember the speech, but I do remember doing the research and being attracted to the simple act of learning about the man.  It had an impact on me, although I can't really clarify in what way.

To this day, I still research Einstein - mostly by looking up various quotes that are attributed to him.  They are some of my favourites.  Of course, since my research is mostly done on the web, I can never be 100% certain that everything I find is accurate but most of what I find seems to be substantiated with other things I know or have learned from other sources.

Recently I have had an interest in researching a theory that incorporates some of my thinking about how the non-physical part of our lives might work.  It suggests that our experiences are all a form of energy patterns that are attracted to us by the vibrational resonance we are offering to the world at a specific moment in time.   My task for today was to google the phrase "einstein on everything is energy".

As you might imagine, I got tons of stuff - some really out there - but mostly, it was interesting.  I even ran across a video on the subject by Deepak Chropra.  But what I would like to offer up for your interest and entertainment is a 15 page story/article I ran across.

Just a brief disclaimer... I haven't validated the source or its content.  I just found the story-like presentation easy to read and a large part of the information and concepts found within the article overlap with some of my own theories.  As always, I encourage you to continually test your beliefs and open yourself up to new, and potentially different, possibilities.

I suppose, if the intial theory presented at the start of my blog is true, I could say that I came across this story, not because it voices any truths (or untruths for that matter), but because my vibrational resonance is in alignment with that of the article.  Give that a bit of thought.