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Ive been interested in intuition for quite some time. I dont really know when that interest began, because there was no one specific moment or one specific intuition which sparked me to write this book. Its been a more gradual interest, probably because I became more aware of a problem concerning intuition as I became more interested in learning to develop and exercise another skill, that of dowsing.

Although dowsing has been used for centuries in various ways, I was interested in the fact that, despite its obvious utility, it was looked upon with scorn and derision by traditional science. Yet, if it really was useless, why was it still being used with success? From there it was a short step to realizing that dowsing and intuition seemed to have a great deal in common, which was that nobody could claim with any certainty that they knew where the answers came from in dowsing or where the information came from in intuition. Even more intriguing to me was the fact that although the experience of having an intuition is shared by practically everyone, which is not true of dowsing, hardly anyone seems to be interested in questioning what happens to allow an intuition to occur.

It seemed to me to be appropriate, for my own peace of mind at least, to attempt to discover as much as I could about intuition, this common yet overlooked experience. Although the present inquiry started as a result of an interest in dowsing, I am not overly concerned if those who defend dowsing against skepticism find any arguments to their liking in this book. What I am concerned with is exploring how such a seemingly simple and accepted facet of everyday life, as intuition surely is, can open up such an intriguing view of ourselves and the universe.

I did not really know what I was getting into when I started this book. All I knew was that I wanted to write a book about something everyone can do, unconsciously, and yet which seemed to open up some interesting questions about consciousness and awareness. I had some few ideas and some leads. The original concept I had of the book was of a relatively obvious journey: the mind, unconscious sensing, maybe a bit about how intuition was looked at by mainstream science, and then add a dash of something to do with the world and how we might be connected. It seemed to be a simple thing to begin with.

However, at some point I just knew, without knowing how I knew (a common attribute of nearly all intuitions), that this subject was much bigger and more important than I had realized. I became aware, as I was writing, of the truth of the saying that familiarity breeds contempt. The trap is in thinking that if intuition is something so easy, so obviously achievable, then it must be simple to explain. And the reverse of that is that if it was difficult to do, it must require skill and dedication and that, in turn, demands that it be studied. But intuition is not difficult (it is that very simplicity which had first intrigued me), and yet it is certainly not easy to explain.

As I became more and more engrossed in the subject, so it became more and more obvious that the study of intuition was opening up a whole new range of questions and ideas which had never occurred to me. I had to take into account time and space, consciousness and brain mechanisms, quantum mechanics and philosophy, linguistics and biophotons. I had to confront the idea that intuition challenges our thinking about ourselves and what we are capable of, and I hope I have been able to convey the excitement of those discoveries and revelations sufficiently to intrigue and interest you, the reader.

What began as a simple idea about the way the mind might work turned into a tour of the body, the mind, and the cosmos and back again. Once I committed to the study of intuition, it began to overturn everything I thought we knew about reality, about who and what we are capable of. It forces us to think of ourselves differently. To look closely at intuition, to accept what that close study reveals, will, if we allow it, show that we are amazing beings living in an amazing world doing amazing things that we take for granted. Familiarity, in the case of intuition, should not breed contempt, but wonder.

I hope you enjoy taking the journey as much as I have, and I hope you end up truly appreciating yourself as a result.

Nigel Percy

June 2019

Pulling together a mass of information from a variety of sources and from various disciplines has been challenging and has taken much longer than I thought it would. It makes me wonder whether I would have started it had I known that to begin with.

I would like to thank those who have contributed to this in some fashion, notably Sonya (you know who you are), Anna (ditto), Kirk Biglione and Reverend Smyth. Most of all, Id like to thank my wife, Maggie, who gave me endless encouragement, usually after I had been staring at the screen having run out of energy or ideas, or both, and the thought of further research was less than inspiring. She saw the potential in what had originally been something of mainly idle curiosity and urged me to stick with it when I might have surrendered and left it a shapeless mass, going nowhere and achieving nothing. Above all, her editing skills have transformed the shapeless mass into something definite and with a coherent argument I did not clearly perceive at first. Thank you!