To develop intuition, one must learn to be silent. No wonder Christian and Eastern traditions alike embrace the “vow of silence.” It teaches a person to see and hear but remain silent—so that inner feeling may be born and grow. Tradition advises: “Seal your lips one day a week, then one week a month, and finally one month a year.” Yet one must guard against inner dialogue, or such practice becomes mere empty amusement, and you will never learn to act within the range of pure and subtle feelings.
Many people’s misfortune is that, when offended, they fall silent and refuse to speak to their offender. At such moments, illness arises or fertile ground is prepared for it. For powerful energetic inner dialogue shakes the organs, destabilizes systems, and blocks bodily functions. Silence is golden, yet in this case it is tarnished, for it demands constant cleansing, and the body—healing.
Alexander V. Martinov aptly noted that in life we resemble a fixed-tuning receiver—one-, two-, or three-program at most. We are trapped by rigid mindsets, hollow and lifeless programs, foolish notions, and false doctrines, yet lack the strength or knowledge to break free, or wait for a guide. Intuition alone reveals the path, for its range of perception is boundless. With its aid, a person foresees principles they would never reach through painstaking labor. It preserves strength and health, eases work, and empowers self-improvement. The more a person operates through intuition, the greater their intellectual growth. Such labor does not weary them, for it not only demands no force but generates powerful vibrations in return.
Can we activate intuition if our feelings flail in the material world, thrash through horror films, sex, and violence, tremble over pulp romances or the love-suffering of soap operas? I pity those who burn up their feelings. I ache for children watching foreign cartoons where all they hear is “Bam!”, “Pow!”, “Woof!”, “Quack!” and other fabricated nonsense. Vulgar plots and the absence of music turn our children into moral degenerates. When will you come to your senses, gentlemen?
Passions have seized people. All this drags humanity backward in spiritual development, and at times entire generations are consumed by contrived passions and false feelings. It reduces them to herd animals, tax collectors of the physical plane. This is Karma; failing to recognize it, we carry it lifelong, perhaps across multiple lives, blaming products and ecology instead.
The lower a person stands in their development, the more they live “killing time,” and the stronger their herd instinct. It will weigh upon them until they gain full self-confidence. Then we understand the leaders who herd people around them. Both leaders and followers are soulless rabble. We see how they tremble, shout, seethe with malice, torn by feelings of inadequacy—yet do not comprehend it.
Intuition, like Ariadne’s thread, will guide you through life toward harmony and joy. It is good when it is developed in those who raise, heal, teach, and judge us, who rule us, invent and enact laws. Then society will be just, healthy, and moral.
Politicians make the most noise and clamor. History shows they are mere cold calculation built on career, prestige, and material well-being. That is why they say politics is a dirty business. We have already noted that everyone possesses intuition, yet in politicians it is the intuition of careerism, often stripped of humanity. Here great inner work is required to remain an honorable person. If politicians truly cared for country, peace, and accord, paradise would long since have arrived on Earth. Of course, only an idealist could think so; politics never entertains such thoughts. The main thing is to be someone. Who was nothing will become everything! Or will they? When a country is torn into parties, blocs, and unions, how can they grasp Russian sobornost’?
And perhaps the main conclusion I wish to draw is this: intuition makes a person spiritually free and independent. Only power and violence can force them to do what they do not want. A person with developed intuition needs no parties, no tsar or president, for these only plunge them back into dependence. Each imposes dogmas, rules, and laws convenient and advantageous to them. A person with heightened intuition has their own inner truth and support that governs all their affairs, thoughts, and deeds. And this is always displeasing to authority. Hence the development of individuality will long be hindered by social systems. That is why I would describe intuition in the words of Leo Tolstoy: “The Kingdom of God is within us.”
CHILDREN’S INTUITION
I have already written about children’s sensitivity and receptivity in the first book, and a little later, in the section “Nutrition,” I will touch on this topic again. The essence of it boils down to the fact that the less a child eats—not because he is not fed, but because he himself does not want to—the purer and subtler his soul becomes. He is able to hear, see, and feel the surrounding world, intuitively finding a field for creative activity within it. A child who eats a lot is less intuitive. He is passive, uninitiated, and his creative imagination needs to be developed for a long time.
A child’s pure intuition is preserved up to the age of seven, and if we do not “clog” it with our irritation, the child can retain it even longer. He will find many hobbies for himself; he is a generator of ideas and fantasies. It is precisely such children who attend clubs and sections. They try and seek themselves for future independent life.
We are used to scolding children for being inconsistent. The child is driven by an interest in life, while we are driven by dry calculation. Remember yourself in childhood and what you achieved in life. We often consider many of a child’s statements to be delusions or fantasies, forcing the child to be silent—and all for nothing. Later, we will be surprised and irritated that the child does not understand or feel something. A child’s directness should bring us joy; do not suppress or stifle it, so that it does not turn into a tragedy for him or for you. We all dream that our children will live better and happier lives than we do, but we liken them to ourselves. We instill in them our imperfect today and expect to live in a happy tomorrow. This does not exist, as history shows.
I remember parents bringing a tenth-grade girl to me to help her choose a profession. During the conversation, it immediately became clear that she loved to draw, write poetry, and had been studying at a music school for ten years. “So, what do you really want to be?” I asked. She replied that she was going to apply to a conservatory. “Then I don’t understand,” I continued, “what kind of career choice are we talking about?” “My parents don’t know which department to apply to—conducting or composition.”
Again, there is obvious dry calculation, without taking into account the child’s interests, which I later pointed out to the parents. With the girl, we figured out that composing music and bringing something of her own into the world was closer and dearer to her. That’s what we decided on.
A child’s intuition guides him toward mastering the skills he will need in life. This is especially evident at school. Not only are the lessons uninteresting, but the child also declares, “Why do I need this math? I’m going to be a driver or a cook. I can count money, and the rest I can calculate on a calculator.” Well, let him work as a driver. Reduce his math program, but give him an expanded program in technical creativity. Only through passion in one area will he come to another. He himself will want to study mathematics to solve the technical and creative ideas and projects that arise in him.
This is how you can develop intuition and creativity in any “hopeless” child. Teachers and educators must have a special intuition to sense the desires and interests of any child. All children are talented, but adults lack patience and perseverance.
Children ask a lot of questions, to which we give “smart” answers. When a child asks a question, he already knows his answer, which is much more interesting and unusual than our ideas. To any question from a child, I always respond with a question: “What do you think?” and I am amazed, surprised, and delighted by the answer I receive, often laughing from the heart. This is where I find the greatest joy in communicating with children. And at the same time, I teach them to independently acquire knowledge that they draw from the depths of their soul.
There are cunning children and straightforward ones. A cunning child is an indicator of his subtle perception of what is happening around him. He sees and feels the lies and deception of adults and peers and uses their weaknesses to his advantage. As a rule, he grasps everything “on the fly”; he is lively and active. A child’s cunning is not a vice; it is experience intuitively honed from past lives. However, when cunning turns into deception, that is already a vice. A straightforward child suffers more, which indicates his weak spiritual experience and weak intuition.
When a person becomes independent, “intuitive cunning” helps him achieve or avoid something in life. A straightforward person, on the other hand, achieves everything through painstaking labor and, in conflicts, resorts to swearing and fighting due to a lack of moral foundation.
Understanding this, we can already correct a child’s development at an early stage in terms of intuitive growth, and for this, we will need our self-sacrifice to develop his creativity and passion.
It is hardest with people of middle age. They have many unexpressed accumulations, dissatisfaction, vague desires, and anger at everything that exists. And all of this is because no one worked with them in childhood on their subtle world.
CATASTROPHES AND INTUITION
In the history of accidents and catastrophes, there is a solid body of evidence when people, as if sensing something, made unexpected decisions that sometimes contradicted reason but saved them from death. They experienced a sharp sense of anxiety or melancholy, or suddenly an illness flared up, often cardiac. In other words, everything happened to somehow stop a person in their desires and aspirations. This often occurs when we buy a ticket for any trip in advance. But as soon as we return the ticket, all symptoms of anxiety disappear.
Now we understand that this is how intuition works, how our Guardian Angel helps us.
But how can we consciously manage intuition before a critical situation arises?
It would be good if we embed information about our safety into our subconscious. It should be approximately as follows: “I will never board a car, tram, or bus that will be involved in an accident; I will never board a train that will derail; I will never board a plane that will not reach its destination; I will never walk past a house from which something will fall on my head,” and so on.
The school of human survival should begin with the development of intuition. I would hang a poster at every stop where people wait for transport: “I will never board!..”
But before setting off on a journey, direct the inner beam of your intuition along the entire route. Not only mentally, but also internally imagine how you follow the route with all transfers. If this beam slides freely to the final point of your journey, go ahead with confidence. But remember that your thought can run through this path very quickly, yet it is not the thought that plays the main role here, but the feeling. It moves more slowly, but it is the feeling that will warn you of danger or delay along the way. A feeling will arise that you somehow cannot overcome a certain section of the path, meaning something will happen there. Skip that bus or other transport you are waiting for and take the next one.
One of my acquaintances said that with this mindset, he has been traveling for many years, but this mindset is actually to avoid ticket inspectors.
Here are some examples described in literature and the press.
“A young woman was returning home by bus. She sat by the window. Suddenly, an unconscious anxiety arose, although nothing foreshadowed danger. However, the emotion was so compelling that the woman moved to another seat. At the next stop, the seat was taken by a girl who entered the bus with a young man. And almost immediately—an accident, shattered glass, and the girl with a wounded face was taken away by an ambulance.” Thus, the unconscious feeling to which the woman listened saved her from trouble. Therefore, when boarding a bus, if there are free seats, we should not just take any seat but feel a comfortable one for ourselves.
However, intuition does not only warn of immediate danger. History has recorded many absolutely reliable facts when a person was “warned” days, hours, and even years in advance.
Here is an example.
“A girl from the Radziwiłł family panicked at the sight of a painting with a heavy frame hanging on the wall of the ancestral castle. Moreover, she could not explain the reason for this fear. This lasted for thirteen years. However, when she became engaged, she could not avoid the traditional walk through the halls. Death came instantly—the painting fell from the wall and pierced the unfortunate girl’s head.” One could say this was an accident, but “accidents do not exist,” ancient teachings assert. Everything is lawful, everything can be explained, and sometimes in a completely unexpected way.
For example. A woman came to me who constantly injured her fingers with a kitchen knife while cooking. “What kind of punishment is this?” she asked. I had to tell her about the influence of the “subtle” and “parallel” world on a person’s life and health. I will discuss this in detail in my next book, “Soul and Karma,” but for now, I will explain briefly.
When we cook food, we smell it, taste it, but all these sensory sensations occur at the level of the flesh, without touching our spiritual world. Folk wisdom says: “Our ancestors, eat with us,” enjoying the aroma and taste of food. In occultism, it is believed that our ancestors who have passed into the other world and become our Guardian Angels feed on the spiritual emanations we receive from food. At the same time, an imaginary appeal to them nourishes and sustains their subtle bodies. In turn, they help us navigate life by sending back the energy we give them. Thus, the vibrations in our body, which we call intuition or say that something diverted us from trouble, are strengthened.
If, however, we do not turn to the Higher World while preparing and eating food, the energetic niche is occupied by spirits from the parallel world who live alongside us. They not only literally consume our food but also demand our blood. Hence the constant injuries, specifically while preparing food.
Several years have passed, and my acquaintance has not injured her fingers even once. And in the kitchen, she hung a small poster: “Our ancestors, eat with us.”
Here it is worth noting another fact. Spirits of the parallel world hunt not only for our blood but also for our saliva. No wonder Porfiry Ivanov advised us: “Do not spit around and do not spit anything out of yourself. Get used to this: it is your health.” A person who spits is constantly walking around with injuries, abrasions, and bruises. “Spirits of darkness” are always nearby.
Another example. For twenty years, a woman suffered from severe hiccups as soon as she started eating. Doctors had long offered her surgery to cut a certain nerve, but she kept refusing. I advised her to use the same technique — turning to the Higher World through the impressions received while eating: “Our ancestors, eat with us.”
The next day, coming to a lecture, she happily, joyfully, and contentedly told me that all her long-suffering had stopped that very day. She said that while smelling and consuming food, she felt all its spiritual charms, and a kind of energetic wave ran through her body from head to toe. That, I explained to her, was the descent of your Guardian Angel. And hiccups — this is the inner protest of your soul against the wrong, unspiritual way of eating.
This is how karmic medicine sees the causes of many of our ailments, problems, and misfortunes.
Turning to the Guardian Angel helps us in all our affairs, protects us, or diverts us from misfortune. Folk wisdom notes that if you go somewhere on business and say the phrase: “My angel, be with me, you go ahead, I follow you,” be sure that everything will turn out well. Your angel will “negotiate” with the angel of the person you are going to, and if the moral foundations of your actions are pure, all your affairs will be resolved in the best possible way.
Yevgenia I. Roerich in “Agni Yoga” constantly speaks about the help of the Higher World: “…on different continents, our healing care is felt. People receive help, feel unexpected recovery, but do not understand where the help came from. We are not talking about gratitude — we do not need it, but conscious acceptance of help strengthens the beneficial consequence. Every denial and mockery paralyzes even strong vibrations. We rush to help, we rush to bring good, but how often are we understood? Ignorant people claim that We start revolutions and unrest, but it is We who have repeatedly tried to prevent and stop murders and destruction.”
Everyone has experienced being suddenly “led astray.” This happens in the forest, in the city, in the subway, on transport — you just cannot find the way, the direction, the road. Someone is leading you, or perhaps diverting you. Diverting you from an unnecessary meeting, from a dangerous place. Folk wisdom says that the devil and the demon lead you astray, while God and the Guardian Angel divert you.
Quite often, when we forget something, we are afraid to go back for it, believing that it is not good luck, that something will go wrong on the way or in some matter. This happens because we are not sufficiently internally attuned to our feelings.
Ancient sages said that you cannot return to the past, to what a person has already moved away from. The past should only serve as experience for the new.
However, in the worldly hustle and bustle, we have confused everything again. The doctrine of intuitivism asserts that you can and should return for what you have forgotten, because it will divert, stop, or protect a person from unnecessary meetings, accidents, and so on. Forgetting something is like a signal of a karmic stop, a signal of misfortune. Your task is to find an intuitive, and then a logical, justification for it. When intuition guides a person, they suddenly feel that it is time to leave the house or start some business. By obeying this inner impulse, they harmoniously align with the movement of their soul toward the goal, and then everything accompanying this path will go smoothly.
Very often, this feeling of going somewhere or traveling arises spontaneously. Obey it, and it will lead you to the right person, to an interesting meeting, to the book you have long been looking for, to a “random” discovery or the acquisition of something new, or, finally, it will provide you with some material support. An intuitive person, looking at a book stall, will immediately see the book they need, and their hands will reach for it. Do not hesitate, take it, buy it, and it will bring something new into your life, into your soul. Interestingly, how did you react to this book, what feeling did you experience when acquiring it? Were you able to capture that feeling or did you just pile it up?
And so everywhere and in everything, you must be able to capture your feelings. Intuition should become for you the standard of quality of the world inside and around you. And then the body will be reliably protected from any dangers.
The voice of the soul constantly tells us: do not do this, do not go there, do not communicate with this person. But we drown out this voice within ourselves and then look for culprits for our misfortunes, failures, and disappointments. We always want to shift the blame for all our suffering onto someone else.
When on the street you want to ask passersby a question or make a request, you do not turn to the first person you see but internally attune yourself to them. Then the contact with them will be soft and harmonious, and people will not shy away from you. After all, the person to whom you “connected” intuitively feels that something is about to happen. Looking around, they find the source in you. They will quickly understand what you want from them. Otherwise, you will have to repeat your question two or three times.
The history of disasters shows that when a country enters times of crisis, turmoil, and all human thoughts and feelings are directed toward survival, political struggle, and easy gains, it is precisely at such moments that the greatest number of accidents occur in all areas. Planes burn and fall, trains derail, factories and plants collapse, everything perishes, taking hundreds and thousands of lives with it. All because the inner world of a person is reduced to material concerns. The victims of these cataclysms pay for their inner deafness, for living a “dead” life.
And how we mock those who foresee misfortune. “You’ve jinxed it,” we say. But what if we listened to them? If every workplace had such people — and they do — we could avoid many upheavals. But for now, these people, having discovered this gift within themselves, engage in divination and prophecy.
Once, I was seeing off a friend from Moscow to Irkutsk at Domodedovo Airport on flight 129. I saw with what contempt and rudeness passengers were being handled on that flight. I do not even want to describe it. Seeing and hearing all this, I thought: “Lord, what is happening, what have we come to, how cruel the service has become, there is no trace of kindness left.” I felt that this would not end well. Exactly a month later, flight 130, departing from Irkutsk to Moscow, caught fire and, losing control, crashed outside the city. All 125 people on board died.
Problems in the sky have earthly origins. If a plane commander loves their machine, their work, the sky, they will sense malfunctions long before takeoff. If not, if everything is boring, they will keep falling, falling, falling, taking others with them. Later, the commission will find the “black box” and declare the crew’s actions and decisions competent, but before God, they will remain criminals. This applies not only to pilots but also to those who hold the reins of power, the levers of industry, factories, or plants. They must first and foremost be attuned to the Cause, to the common good, to feel the entire mechanism as a whole and each of its parts in particular. This is also intuition. The cost of losing it can be horrifying.
One cannot fail to recall here the revered elder St. Seraphim of Sarov, who instructed: “Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands of souls will be saved around you.” Our misfortunes begin long before they manifest. Our task is to intuitively sense them. For example, when buying train or plane tickets, I always choose a calm cashier with a kind face (if there is a choice). And for this, I always meet good fellow travelers, and the journey turns out to be easy and quick.
When you learn to direct the beam of intuition toward the information you need, you will notice that intuition begins to work spontaneously even where you do not expect danger. Obey your feelings, and they will save you from many troubles, and your Guardian Angel will shield you from the karma intended for others.
I know many people, more often women, who, directing the beam of intuition in a store, could sense the smell of the products available there. You can direct this beam to work, home, or any place you need, and you will know everything in advance. “Intuition, this highest gift, truly becomes a guide for a person; it begins to see everything through its light — which is why in the tradition of occultism, intuition was given the epithet ‘STAR OF THE MAGI.’ This is how intuition is described in the Major Arcana of the Tarot.”
