Exploring Intuition
A reader indicated I was not consistent in my use of the word “intuition” so I thought I would add a few words of clarification to the many I have already written.
There are two basic hurdles that must be overcome for the esoteric student.
[1] Average people use the word to convey a wide variety of meanings.
[2] The common definitions differ significantly from the metaphysical one, as the common one is much broader.
Here are a couple orthodox definitions:
[A] An ability to know or understand something through your feelings, instead of by considering facts or evidence more…
[B] Instinctive knowing [without the use of rational processes]
[C] An impression that something might be the case.
All of these are applicable for common usage but not very usable for the esoteric student. In fact, the use of the word as used in the Ancient Wisdom is so narrowed a completely new word may have been in order to avoid confusion. Robert Heinlein did this with the word Grok or a process of taking in understanding in his book “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
For our studies, forget about intuition as applied to getting something from emotional feelings, lower psychism or instinct. The one thing the student must accomplish to use true intuition is to penetrate the intuitive or Buddhic plane with his consciousness. This taps in to higher planes where all true principles as well as the seed ideas behind all creation lie.
I have said that intuition brings a flashing forth within the mind that leads to greater understanding, especially concerning principles, but the application is broader than this.
Contact with the intuitive plane can lead to higher psychism such as conscious channeling. With lower psychism the medium goes into a trance and is not conscious of what is given out in the trance state. This takes place through the astral body and the data is often not reliable.
The conscious channeler touches the intuitive plane with the higher mind and gathers true impressions or receives by mental telepathy from either her higher self or higher lives. Thus Alice A. Bailey used intuitive abilities to receive from DK though it might be more accurate to call the process telepathy rather than applying intuition.
The most common form of true intuition involves that flashing forth in the mind where understanding is enhanced.
When one achieves some mastery of the intuitive plane he then seeks to access the Atmic plane where the seed ideas of creation reside. Once this is achieved, he not only receives through the intuition but becomes a Knower by achieving direct access to this plane.
Question: I think you said something the other day about inventors tapping into the Atmic. Does an invention ALWAYS involve tapping in to the Atmic,
JJ: No. Many inventions are created because of a need that is mentally deduced and is a logical sequence of need. It is the inventions that are a leap that tap into the Atmic.
To understand let us look at the difference between a couple of inventions by Tesla and Edison.
Edison’s most famous invention was the light bulb. The idea of creating a light bulb, I’m sure occurred to thousands of people before it materialized but no one knew how to put the ingredients together, including Edison. What made Edison different was he had the resources and determination to make the 10,000 logical experiments necessary to finally achieve success.
My best guess concerning Edison is this. The idea of creating a light bulb was a logical deduction created by his rational mind. However, after much contemplation, he tapped into the intuitive plane and saw that the creation had a true reality on a higher plane. This gave him faith and a knowing that a light bulb could be materialized on the physical plane.
On the other hand, Tesla’s most famous invention was the Tesla Coil. This was an entirely different animal than the light bulb. It was a natural and logical thing for many people to dream of creating a light bulb but few if any daydreamed about creating a coil that could transfer energy as did this and even led to the invention of the radio.
Many of Tesla’s inventions give evidence that he directly tapped into the Atmic plane and understood how the ideas worked from that point. Edison received intuitively and conjured mentally and had to figure out on the mental plane how to make the ideas work.
There is a similar difference between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Gates receives an inner confirmation of innovations that can be accomplished and he proceeds mentally. Jobs saw a vision from a higher plane and saw ideas that were beyond the regular reasoning process. Now Jobs was not as evolved as Tesla, but the difference between him and Gates is quite similar to Edison and Tesla.
Question: Has the prolific inventor likely already mastered the mental or buddhic/intuitive planes?
JJ: See above. Some have, some have not.
Question: I think you have said that mastery of the planes is progressive, so that one masters first the mental, then the intuitive, and then the atmic but that one may get “flashes” of contact with the next one or two “up” without mastery, is that correct?
JJ Yes, it is progressive but with gaps as mentioned earlier. A common example of these gaps is the intelligent nerd that so many movies are made about. The nerd character is very smart, gets all A’s, is a computer whiz etc. On the other hand, his emotional intelligence is very low and he does not understand that world. The third plane of the mind is thus more developed than his second plane of emotion and he must eventually spend time developing this before he can move on to higher things.
Reader: Will you clarify as to whether AAB used mostly telepathy or the intuition.
JJ: Let me put it this way. There is no telepathy without the attainment of the intuition, but one can be intuitive and not have the ability to be telepathic. The intuition opens the door to a large number of abilities, similar to soul contact, for one needs a degree of soul contact to access the intuitive plane.
A true telepathic person thus uses the intuition to access an evolved mind. He receives these mental concepts in a similar manner to the receiving of flashes of understanding from the mind of God.
Reader comment: If inventors can tap into these ideas, then that means that there was a beginning to all these ideas
JJ: You’d better hope this isn’t true because you are an idea in the mind of God and if you had a beginning then you will have an end.
Ideas have no beginning or end. Will there ever be a time when the idea of a light bulb cannot exist? No. And this means that it never had a beginning.
What does have a beginning is the incarnation of ideas. These have both a beginning and end. I have often given the example of a melody to illustrate this. The ingredients for the song Yesterday have always existed in the Eternal Now. Lennon and McCartney brought it into incarnation. Eventually all that creates its incarnation will be destroyed and it will not exist in the physical plane. But then eventually there will be new creations and the song will incarnate again but with an altered arrangement.
This principle also applies to us as eternal beings.
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. – Jules Henri Poincari
April 19, 2026
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