21-5-2005 PUNE

Talk by Ellaeenah
The Difference between Intuition and Psychic Ability

Intuition is something that all of us have. It’s not limited to any one person, any one race, any one sex or any age. In fact, it is at its most heightened when you are a child; the reason being, the younger you are, the more you are functioning out of your spirit essence rather than out of your ego. The older you get, the more conditioned you get. You begin to pick up people’s fears. You begin to pick up the biases, prejudices of your elders and that is basically how your ego is structured; it’s really the formation of the ego, which is very essential in a dual world.

We are not living in a world of unity; we are living in a dualistic world so it’s extremely essential that the ego is made, is built. The whole purpose of the ego being built is that from out of that structure of ego the spirit has to act. But when a child is very, very young, in its formative years, the structure has still not been built. It’s only a kind of a foundation that has been loosely set and the child is acting largely out of its spirit essence. At that time intuition is at it’s highest. Those of you who have very young children, pay attention to what they say. You’ll generally find that the younger they are, the more quickly they can hone in onto the truth and without quite knowing why they are saying something, they will even make very predictive statements, because they are coming out of spirit and their spirit is in connection with the cosmic spirit. That is intuition; that is not psychic ability.

As the ego structure is built, this intuition resides in the four walls of the ego. The stronger the walls of the ego, the less place intuition has to move around. For example, if Diana were to increase the breadth of these walls, we wouldn’t have as much place to sit; the space available for free movement would be less. So depending upon how strong your conditioning has been will be the breadth of the walls of this ego structure that has been built. The thicker the walls, the less space intuition has for free play. But it will always have some free play. It will never be completely hidden or completely suppressed and that is why each one of us will at some time have a moment, “Ah! I thought this and it happened. I had a feeling this would happen.” Or you might say, “You know, I dreamt about it before it happened.” Or, “I thought of Nisha and Nisha came.” That is all intuition at work. Why did you think of Nisha before Nisha came? Because your intuition, which is your essential spirit essence, being able to link with any energy, linked with Nisha’s energy and gave you the information in the form of a thought.

How does one develop one’s intuition? Naturally, the more place you have in this ego structure, the more will intuition have free room, free space. So what does one have to do? If you wanted more space in your house, would you break down all the walls of your house? You wouldn’t. Similarly, you can’t break down the entire structure of the ego.

Supposing I wanted a larger room, I’d ask Diana, “Is it possible to break down this part of the wall so we can have a larger room?” Or we do what is done in modern buildings: the walls are very thin. Look at Diana’s walls; no modern structure would have thick walls like these; we would be eating into our floor space, which anyway is very limited. So our walls are very thin to get more space.

And that’s exactly what you have to do for intuition. The internal walls can be either broken part by part, or thinned down. Let’s understand what this metaphor really means.
What do I mean by the internal walls being broken? It’s essential to remember at all times that, we have to live in the structure of the ego. When the Masters say, “become egoless”, it’s the ideal state of being. But they, too, are realistic and they don’t expect you and me, in our present level of evolution, to become egoless. That is the ideal state that we are attempting to attain somewhere in the distant future, in distant incarnations. We are moving towards that.

But what about this incarnation? In this incarnation, we first learn to recognize the structure. If you didn’t know where you lived, would you be able to go home?  You have to recognize your home, know it completely. We have to recognize our ego; recognize our conditioning, our belief structure, our attitude, our moral standards; recognize. They have gone into the making of this building where we reside. We don’t have to reject it; it’s part of our foundation. But if we recognize it, then when we want to give more space to our intuition, we will be able to look at this building and say, “OK. Which wall can I break down? I think I can break down this wall and make it into a large room or maybe I’ll thin this wall so that I can get another 5 inches.” But if you don’t know what your structure is, how will you know which walls to remove? So you have to understand and study your foundation; where you dwell; where your being dwells.

Understand the whole process of ego; understand your conditioning. Use external situations to have a look at yourself. Let’s assume a situation like a ‘racial’ riot. A wonderful opportunity has come your way to study your structure. Let’s not pick up the paper and say, “Oh! These murderous tyrants, etc.” No. Put the paper aside and say, “OK. The universe has presented me with an outside situation, which in some way is mirroring me. Let me sit and now study my structure more. Where, in this structure, is my wall of racial/social discrimination, prejudice or intolerance?” You will find that it exists. You may be as broad-minded as the next person but somewhere within you, you will find it. Some section of society you may have discriminated against, not often perhaps, but on some occasions certainly. For instance, truck drivers annoy me like crazy. I feel they have no sense of courtesy, discipline, nothing; they are just big bullies. Discrimination!!!

These external situations are what make you study these internal walls. If you are truly interested in studying your structure, every day the universe will give you one situation, at least, with which you can be helped to look inward. It may not happen to you; it may happen to someone else.

All these are our little walls and partitions in our home of ego. Let’s not call it a house; let’s call it a home; it becomes more personal. It has a sense of belonging. It makes it something that you can embrace; not something that you wish to condemn. The more you embrace your home of ego, the easier will it be for you to study it. Do you remember when we were children, there were always one or two subjects we didn’t like. Did you ever sit down willingly and study those? Didn’t you always give preference to subjects you enjoyed?

The more you embrace it, the easier is it to study the structure. And then, at a future date, whenever you wish to make more space for intuition, the walls can slowly get thinner or be broken altogether.

Now let’s move on to psychic ability. Intuition and psychic ability very little connection with each other. It’s often confused as being the same; it’s not. Intuition is your spirit essence that gives you access to universal wisdom. If it has more room to be able to run around in, it will be able to access more wisdom that’s lying latent around you but which we can’t see.

Psychic ability is the ability of the mind. Intuition is spirit; it is not ability; it is spirit. It is the freedom you have given to your inner spirit to have fun. I won’t use the word ‘expand’ because then it becomes “I have to work at it” and I don’t want it to be a process I have to work at. Let’s just have fun with it. It’s a great feeling of fun when you have an intuitive flash. It’s a great moment of thrill. When you have fun with intuition, intuition will keep responding to you. So don’t work at it; just have fun with it; experiment with it. Go with all your flashes and insights. Sometimes you will be miserably wrong. So what! So what if you’re wrong? Have fun with the ‘wrong’ because that’s also a way to learn.

Psychic ability is training the mind. It is a concentrated, deliberate, conscious training of the mind. Once again, anyone can do this. It is not exclusive to a few people and those of us who have been able to do it are nothing special. I can’t say this enough. You still put people like me and other mediums on a pedestal. But at some moment we will fall because we are as human as you. We have as much fun in our lives as you. We have as much pain in our lives as you. We are as silly as you are in many things. We are as egotistical. We are as prejudiced. In everything, there is no difference between you and those who call themselves ‘psychic mediums’. So don’t put a distance between yourself and the other, and if a medium is putting a distance and trying to elevate herself or himself, please don’t judge that medium but understand that the medium is going through his or her ego tussle and that is why, needs the feeling of ‘elevation’ right now.

Now how can one train one’s psychic ability? How does one train one’s mind? Step one has to be the same as intuition: the thinning of walls. The mind is trained to expand to a reality that is out there but is not freely available to the conscious lower mind. That is psychic ability… being able to access a level that is higher, however slightly it may be so, than the conscious lower mind. The training you require is in studying the whole of ego. That’s all! Some can do it on their own; some need external guidance. I was one of those fortunate ones who had extensive external guidance, at a time I really needed it, to help me see that the walls of my home of ego was very, very, very thick and strong.

Once you start thinning down, breaking the walls in your home of ego, and the greater and greater free space you have, along with the intuitions free play, the mind also begins to expand. You see, intuition and the mind are the best of friends; they never go anywhere without each other. They have been the dearest and closest of friends from the time of your birth and they can’t be separated. So when intuition is running around in a greater and wider area, the mind is also going there and mind is saying, “I didn’t know this garden existed here. Intuition, let’s go play in the garden.” And suddenly ‘mind’ is seeing that there is something beyond this door. Then intuition says, “Can you see? Diana has broken down even the fence of the garden. Let’s go out now. Can you see that field?” And mind says, “I didn’t know the field existed.” From the home to the garden to the field to a world beyond where the mind did not know there was existence. What have you done to the mind? Trained it to expand; to touch areas of reality that were present but not known to the mind.

If I was locked in this room for 40 years and didn’t look out, and if Diana were to tell me that there was a garden out there, I would say, “Don’t be stupid. I’ve lived in this place for 40 years; I know that there are only 4 walls. There’s nothing beyond them.” But if I allow my intuition to expand, my mind will follow suit and I will suddenly see a reality, which for 40 years I didn’t know existed. But it’s there; I was just blind to it. Why? Because my conscious lower mind did not know how to access it. That is psychic ability.

Is there ever a limit to it? Never. Does it stay at its same point always? No. Sometimes you like staying out in the garden but when the heat becomes too much, you run back home. You want to close the door and stay in the 4 walls of your bedroom. The mind has come down to its conscious lower level. But does it ever forget that there is a garden outside? Never. It knows that it can open the door and walk out whenever it wants. So psychic ability can fluctuate. It does fluctuate.

You see, these walls of our structure are magical walls. They have an uncanny ability… To make them thinner or to break them down needs our effort and focus, but to make them thicker and to raise them up again, it does on its own. And suddenly, unknown to you, a wall rises. Intuition is caught in; so is mind. Psychic ability goes down. As soon as you are in tune with yourself, you will know that ‘my psychic ability is at a low at present.” Honestly accept it, knowing that there is a garden out there waiting for you whenever you wish to be there again.

Psychic ability has no ‘end’. It merges and becomes one with intuition, which then becomes ‘complete’ SPIRIT when all the walls have disappeared, when you can be very comfortable and live easily without the structure. But that is a future that is distant, yes, but certainly attainable by all.