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When Intuition Is Activated

Scientists and psychologists have remarked that when intuition is activated, we may be tapping into Higher Intelligence or a Collective Universal Consciousness. They have good reasons for drawing these conclusions because extant written works have furnished evidence to support their contentions.

This has been demonstrated by writings that seemingly predict events before they happen.

In 1898, American author Morgan Robertson wrote a story about a huge, triple-propellered liner that crossed the North Atlantic in April and collided with an iceberg. The ship sank, and lack of sufficient lifeboats resulted in loss of life. Interestingly enough, Robertson's story Futility or Wreck Of The Titan showed surprising parallels to the Titanic disaster, that followed.

British journalist, William Thomas Stead, while working for the Pall Mall Gazette, wrote a piece in which a ship goes down in the mid-Atlantic and life is lost because of insufficient lifeboats. At the end of the story he wrote a side note stating that this type of disaster would happen if liners were sent to sea short of boats. Fulfilling his own forecasts, Stead lost his life-while traveling on the Titanic!

We have many other examples of intuition's influence on the written word and how future events have seemingly been predicted tapping into the muse. Nostradamus' quatrains are claimed to contain information about future events; the Native American Hopi prophecies have been startling in their accuracy; Roddenberry and the writers of Star Trek came up with many ideas that seemed far out at the time, but today, computers, sensors, and lasers are common.

Over the history of speculative fiction, writers-inspired by their foresight, knowledge, wisdom and creativity, and guided by their intuition-have created works that do not merely reflect present reality but, instead, project images of the future. Intuition could be said to be at the very heart of speculative fiction.

In sum, creative energy can be tapped to inspire, to guide, to enhance our writing, and, in the best-case scenario, to help us "boldly go where no man has gone before."

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