There is little doubt that prior experience—both conscious and unconscious knowledge—plays an important role in decision making and action, but new research suggests another source of intuitive information, namely a non-local source of intuitive information, mediated through the brain, heart and the autonomic nervous system. Non-local intuition is viewed as a process by which information normally outside the range of cognitive processes is sensed and perceived in the body and mind as certainty of knowledge or feeling (positive or negative) about the totality of a thing distant or yet to happen. Researchers have found clear experimental evidence that the body’s psychophysiological systems can receive and process information about a future event before the event happens. A theory now exists describing how this may occur which explains how focused attention directed to an object of interest (e.g., a future business opportunity) attunes the bio-emotional energy generated by the body’s psychophysiological systems to a domain of quantum-holographical information, which contains implicit, energetically encoded information about the object. The focus of interest can be a material object or event, or a mental construct such as a thought or idea. Often the feeling is one of certainty and absolute—the intuition is experienced as beyond question or doubt—and the feeling can encompass positive emotions, such as optimism and excitement, or negative emotions like dread, fear, or terror.
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