“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.” Albert Einstein

When some people hear me claim to be a psychic/intuitive, they assume “Oh here is a person who gets all his information from a supra-rational source, and therefore no longer needs any scientific verification.”

In my case, this could not be further from the truth. Since the earliest days of my childhood, I have always been a profound skeptic. I have always required empirical evidence before believing anything to be fact. Indeed, the unsolicited whisperings of my mind caused me to doubt all the more and require solid proof.

I would never be so presumptuous as to expect any of my readers (or myself for that matter), to accept any of my subjectively attained revelations as the basis for belief. For this reason, whenever possible, I offer objective verification.

Being intuitive is not a replacement for the rational process. Instead, the two should work hand in glove in the search for truth. Indeed, the history of science is filled with stories of how some of its greatest discoveries were first apprehended through intuition, and then later verified and given communicable form by the rational mind.

One of the most famous of these accounts is of the dream that revealed to Dr. August Kekule’ the structure of the carbon atom. This discovery made way for the vast expansion of the field of chemistry, that eventually made the industrial revolution possible.

Another is of the revelations of Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He claimed to receive his insights through “divine intuition,” only to be later translated into mathematical proof. Although he died in 1920, his theories are still groundbreaking in the field of mathematics to this day.

The point is not that I am offering myself as an equal to these great minds. Nor is it to misconstrue these writings as a work of science. It is rather, to state something that is of greater scope than these considerations; that the search for truth, whether it be through science or in one’s own personal cognitive journey, is the result of the collaboration between two different aspects of the mind – whether they be the unconscious and conscious, or the intuitive and empirical. It is only by the coming together of disparate and seemingly incompatible realities that the truth can be apprehended. This is why the mind is composed of two parallel and opposite functions – the logic of the left brain and the intuitive process of the right – for it is through their synthesis that revelation is born. Thus, as much as I am able, I try to bolster what is revealed by my intuition with empirical fact.