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I consider myself to be extremely intuitive, and while intuition has its benefits, it also has a very big downside. Intuitives are not really socially acceptable (and apparently, the word itself is not acceptable to the spell-checker on this system). People hate know-it-alls, and certainly, intuitives can come across that way. Intuition, in my opinion, depends on, goes hand in hand with, superior analytic skills. An intuitive, in addition to being, or perhaps, because of being, highly observant, is more cognizant, both consciously and subconsciously, of information, cues, symbolism, coincidence and synchronicity and many subtle incidents and pieces of data surrounding a situation and then, because of their enhanced analytic abilities are able to put all of the pieces together to arrive at an accurate conclusion, which to most people, who are not keen information gatherers, may seem completely off the wall. From my personal experience I find that it is better to keep one's mouth shut as far as sharing information that one has "intuited", unless of course, one doesn't give a damn about being accepted, or is not interested in winning friends and influencing people.

There are ways to share one's "intuited" information in a way that makes one come off looking insightful instead of an irritating know it all. I seldom share what information I have intuited about someone. I instead try to find a way to use it to the person's benefit.

I would google it, or look it up in wikipedia to get some idea.

In the MBTI Personality theory, there are two different types of intuition: extroverted intuition, and introverted intuition. I use both, but my extroverted intuition, is the one that I use consciously, where for me, introverted intuition functions in my subconscious, and bubbles up insights from deep inside. Extroverted intuition finds similarities from among otherwise seemingly to others unrelated information. Like on my first response on the "symptoms of asperger syndrome really defined" I pointed out that #10 and #16 were related. This kind of thing really jumps out at me. It also deals with patterns and attempts to predict behavior based upon perceived patterns. Extroverted intuition tends to come up with several possible options, where introverted intuition will return a single answer and declare this is what will work, or what it will be. I am less familiar with the inner workings of Introverted Intuition because mine functions subconsciously. From reading cosmiccat's post, I would guess that Introverted Intuition is more her forte.

You can find more detailed information on Extroverted Intuition and Introverted Intuition at these links:
http://www.cognitiveprocesses.com/extra ... iting.html
http://www.cognitiveprocesses.com/intro ... iting.html

I can completely identify with you, this describes me to a T.

Quoting Willmark:

I would agree with you.

And so what kind of an intuitive do you think Sherlock Holmes was/is?

The way you write, and the feel of your vibe, reminds me of a couple of my online friends whose personality type was/is INFJ. The primary function of INFJ is introverted intuition. That was my basis for assuming your introverted intuition was probably your forte. And I rather expect that you consider yourself to have much in common with Mr. Holmes, or at least with his propensity for use of introverted intuition.

Quoting willmark:

Right again, Mr. Smarty Pants.

I have been wanting to contact someone who passed a long, long time ago, about fifty years. What are your (and anyone else's) thoughts on whether it is possible to communicate with the dead?

I am really torn on this subject. I recently bought a couple of books on the subject, haven't read them yet, I actually bought them for someone else who recently had a pretty amazing session with John Edwards. However, when someone, like Edwards, who charges such exorbitant fees, and "performs" for a massive audience composed mostly of people who are almost out of their mind with grief and each one hoping to be lucky enough, against great odds, to be chosen for a reading, well, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not saying Edwards is a charlatan, but ... there is so much room for taking advantage of or bilking grief-stricken people, that that whole business, when it becomes just that, a business, turns me off.

But, that is not the question. The question is: is it possible to make contact with those who have passed on? Is there a spirit world? What do you think? And, while you're at it, see if you can tell me something about the person I would like to contact - a name, a physical description, circumstances surrounding the death, anything that comes up. If you feel comfortable doing this, of course, which doesn't at all mean that you believe in spirit communication, and may not even fall under the category of intuition. Afterall, intuition is not super-natural, by my definition, at least. If you don't want to respond openly on this thread, you can pm me with whatever "comes up."

I'll go on the record to say, there have been times where I've felt something not so nice about someone as such you could say, and many times it has turned out to be true but, not always though for, there have been occasions where I've wound up making inaccurated observations which cost me overall from the friendship standpoint.These days, I try not to make any sudden,rash reactions to what I'm feeling of someone whereby, I'd rather be accurate about my thoughts than to make a mistake as such..

It is my belief that people who have passed on cannot be contacted; that people who do this are in fact contacting demons who are very skilled imitators. Yes there is a spirit world, and I have wondered if telepathic communication is non-verbal communication between two living person's inner spirits, but I have nothing to prove or disprove that. I am not going to be any help for you in dredging up Mr. Holmes.

I'm not at all interested in dredging up Mr. Holmes, and how could that be done anyway since he's fictional? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Holmes' creator, would be the one, but I have no wish to contact him either. Actually, I wasn't asking for help in dredging anyone up. Just wondered if your intuition could provide a name or any other info on the particular person I had in mind. As I said, I'm not completely sure if I believe in this stuff anyway. I don't believe in demons except as they exist as delusions or aberrations in peoples' minds.

Oh so you're testing my intuition. Sorry. My misunderstanding. Since the person you have in mind is no longer among the living, probably not. And I generally am not a real gifted mind reader, except when I am, and even then what I read from people is feelings and/or mental images. Why do you want to know about this person in your mind or is this just a test?

No. This is not a test. I repeat, this is not a test.



I misunderstood your previous posts then. I thought you said that you had telepathic or ESP skills. That you could pick up information from a person's avatar, whether they were male or female, whether they were sleeping or awake at the time you were focusing on their avatar. My mistake. I have unfinished business with the person I have in mind, who, by the way, I never met in person. Someone whose life and death has had a very strong influence on my own life and may be responsible for issues that are influencing my health and psychological well being. "May be" is the operative phrase here. A hunch. An intuition. It's a very long & deeply personal story.

Not by studying their avatar. I was referring to female forum members whose avatar was a picture of a guy. I was saying that I was having cognitive dissonance because of the conflict between the gender of the avatar and the gender that I was feeling from the post. I don't know how my intuition knows, but I get a feeling or inner knowing of a person's gender when I read their posts. It's not always right, but often. And feeling if a person is awake or asleep does not require reading a post, or even being near a computer. if I have learned to recognize a person by their vibe, I can tell the difference. I call it finding a person; nothing to do with proximity or locating them. Often I need only know that a person exists to feel their essence out there, if they are still living. I haven't a clue how I accomplish this. And it feels wrong to call it a skill. It is something I was just born with, but I didn't know I had it the first 45 years of my life. Before then it would never occur to me that not everything I felt was my own feelings. I just thought my emotions were peculiar.

I still don't know if I can help you. Maybe

Thanks. It's kind of you to consider the possibility.

Well, I'm going to have to do some detective work.