How To Develop Intuition: The Faculty of Inner Knowing

Introduction

In this blog post, I am going to be talking about the faculty of intuition, discussing the meaning, nature, and physiology of intuition, and further into practices that can sharpen the intuition, as well as factors that dull and distort one's intuition. Make sure you stay tuned till the very end. It is going to be worth it.

The concept that puzzled me the most when my whole spiritual journey of awakening and individualization was intuition. I had heard the word so many times — people saying things like, “Just trust your intuition,” “my intuition told me,” “I was listening to my intuition,” or “Follow that inner knowing.” But for a long time, those words meant nothing to me. I didn't get it at all.

What does “inner knowing” even mean? Knowing what, exactly? And how do I know that what I’m “knowing” isn’t just my imagination or fear pretending to be guidance?

What is Intuition?

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Intuition, simply put, is an organism's ability to instinctively understand something without the need for conscious, logical, or analytical reasoning, the infamous inner knowing, and the home of the sixth sense (energetic perception) itself. Intuition so happens to be a 4th Dimensional faculty, like its buddies "thinking and feeling," and therefore works in close relation to them both.

For years, I had wrestled with it. I tried following every advice and took every tip on how to connect with my intuition, alas, it wasn't getting any sharper — I still make dumb choices, trust the wrong people, and couldn't hear the subtle inner voice directing me on what flavor of chips my taste buds will find appealing. The point is, I haven't a clue what being intuitive was like. At that point, I wouldn't know it, my intuition hit me right across the face.

Intuition as a Mechanism of Inner Co-ordination

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Like many people who tried before me to master their intuition, I failed to master it as well. Again, there are really no resources that gave me the bulletproof: how-to-use-your-intuition-guide-for-dummies-version. Trust me, I looked and nothing out there. If you know of any good references, please leave a comment.

This was where I was parked until I discovered this lecture by Manly P. Hall in the Faculty of Intuition. Now, if you have listened to or read any of his works, you'd know that he likes to really get into the details of how the cogs and gears of the clockwork work.

This was the very moment I stopped looking at intuition as a mystical feeling of divine inner knowing, or an ability from the X-Men, and I started seeing it as an instrument of sorts, or better yet, a mental co-ordinator P. Hall put it.

Intuition, toeis a mental and emotional faculty (a 4th-dimensional device) that filters, organizes, and translates subtle energy into usable information. It serves as a bridge that links the sixth sense (energetic perception) and the rational mind.

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It works constantly, it doesn't matter if a person is awake or asleep — coordinating neurological signals, processing emotional vibrations in sync with mental cues and sensory input from the other five senses, and expressing them in the form of sensations, symbols, or insights that the conscious mind can understand as clairvoyance (visions) or any other extra sensory ability the person may possess.

But here’s the challenge: intuition isn’t always accurate and can very often be subjected to distortion in the Etheric Space. The reason intuition can sometimes mislead isn’t that it’s broken — it’s because energy is so easy to change and manipulate.

The etheric field — is this subtle magnetic field that connects all things — is like a vast sea of impressions spread across our entire conceivable universe, and every thought, emotion, and intention creates ripples in this sea. Your intuition's job is to pick up those ripples and try to interpret them.

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But if the field around you is filled with static — dishonesty, projection, interference, or even your own bias — then the signal becomes unclear.

Imagine trying to tune an old radio to a faint frequency while standing in a thunderstorm. The signal exists, but the noise makes it hard to hear.

Similarly, a person who is emotionally dishonest or psychologically guarded can distort their own aura. Even if your intuitive faculty is strong, you might receive mixed readings because the information itself is scrambled.

This is why having a refined and well-cultivated self-awareness is, by my standards, far more important than raw intuition. I will explain in a bit.

Why Self-Awareness Is the Real Power

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Intuition without self-awareness is like a microphone with no equalizer — it amplifies everything, including noise. But when you are self-aware, you become capable of discerning whether what you feel is truth or distortion.

Self-awareness is what lets you know whether the energy you’re reading comes from the present moment or from your own emotional residue. It helps you sense when a feeling belongs to you and when it’s being projected by someone else.

In other words, self-awareness calibrates intuition.

Children, Animals, and Pure Perception

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It’s easier for children and animals to use intuition because they haven’t built up layers of ego, logic, and self-deception.

Animals don’t overanalyze — they sense directly. They don’t question whether they’re imagining danger; they simply act. Their perception isn’t filtered through reason; it’s primal and pure.

That’s why dogs growl at certain people or why cats avoid specific spaces. They’re not “thinking” — they’re feeling truth in real time. Like echo location in bats and dolphins, sharks can pick up ripples and blood droplets in the vastness of the ocean from miles away.

Children, before ego solidifies, perceive energy similarly. They might say, “I don’t like that man,” without being able to explain why. Their intuition works freely because their mind hasn’t yet learned to deny what it feels. They sense these things better than adults do 80% of the time.

The Human Problem: Overthinking Energy

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As adults, it is our job to be able, which so happens to be our greatest obstacle towards using intuition; here lies our need to define everything.

Whenever we sense energy — a sudden unease, a vibration, a flicker of inspiration — the mind immediately asks: “What does this mean?”, “Where did this come from?” “Why is this happening to me?” That questioning creates resistance, not to mention the impulsive desire to project and blame a harmful emotional state on anything but the self. This inner chaos of avoidance messes up the transmission beyond comprehension; the intuition is unable to tell the natural flow of perception from the analytical noise.

The more we try to “figure it out,” the less we hear.

Our desire to give meaning to every subtle feeling continuously disrupts the intuitive mechanism. To develop intuition, we must return to seeing things as they are.

Self-awareness lets us know what part of our inner physiology is working properly and what parts need shadow work and integration. Hence, clearing the noise so the intuition can operate smoothly without resistance.

The Art Of Seeing Things As They Are

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That phrase — “See things as they are” — has become my mantra for sharpening intuition.

I sit with myself for 35 to 45 minutes, eyes closed and chanting “I see myself as water - I see things as they are”. Affirmations, I find, are some of the most effective ways to impress ideas upon the subconscious mind, work even better in a sleep state with audio frequencies.

When you simply observe an energy without labeling it as good or bad, it reveals itself naturally. If something feels off, you don’t need to name it — the vibration already tells you everything. If something feels right, you don’t need proof — alignment speaks through ease.

In those moments of silent observation, intuition becomes crystalline.

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Practical Development

• Pause before analyzing. When a thought or feeling arises, observe it before interpreting it.


• Breathe and sense. Direct your attention to your body. Where do you feel it — chest, gut, back of neck?


• Detach from outcome. Intuition doesn’t work on command; it works in calm surrender.


• Journal intuitive hits. Write down every insight, hunch, or inner signal that later proves accurate — this builds trust in the faculty.


• Cultivate silence. Spend time in stillness daily; intuition is nurtured in quiet, not noise.

Over time, you begin to notice that intuition doesn’t come to you — it arises through you.

The Esoteric View: Intuition as a Spiritual Organ

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According to Manly P. Hall, the human's intuition is one of the higher cognitive faculties of the spirit, beyond imagination and inspiration. He described it as direct perception of the living reality behind phenomena — seeing the truth of a thing without mediation.

In this sense, intuition is an organ of spiritual sight, not a feeling. It’s the soul’s ability to perceive truth the way the eyes perceive light.

But just as physical vision needs clear eyes and balanced light, spiritual vision requires purity of emotion and thought. That’s why intuition strengthens with moral clarity, humility, and inner silence.

Summary

• Intuition is not merely a feeling; it’s a mechanism that filters vibrational data into awareness.
• Distortion occurs when energy fields — yours or others’ — are clouded by interference.
• Self-awareness calibrates intuition, distinguishing truth from noise.
• Children and animals access pure intuition because they don’t analyze or doubt what they sense.
• The key practice: See things as they are — observe energy before labeling or judging.
• From an esoteric view, intuition is a higher organ of perception that awakens through purity and self-awareness.