Intuition over Logic 1: sense of place
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The photo at the head of this blog post was taken a while ago on a visit to Northumbria. The coastline is peppered with castles. This one, Dunstanburgh Castle is a ruin and has a powerful presence. The day we saw it there was a storm brewing and it was a freezing cold day. The sky was clear – a short break between bad weather.
Over the couple of days we were in the area we saw a few castles – and spent time on Lindisfarne looking at the castle and church on that island too. We drove onto the island across the causeway and then walked through a blizzard to Lindisfarne Castle.
Apparently, this part of England was the place where Christianity was first introduced into the UK.
Logic would tell us that castles, churches and ancient buildings are just rocks. That the energy we identify in these places is a projection of our mind.
But intuition and the emotional reaction to these places tells us something quite different. Strong sense of place – whether through ancient settlements, or ancient burial grounds, standing stones, monuments – does seem to evoke something within us.
We just need to suspend judgement, let the logical mind hold back whilst we use our intuition to figure out what is going on.
In a series of posts on the site, I will be looking at this intuitive space from various perspectives. In my work I find myself frequently in dialogue with scientists, who believe only in that which can be tested as a hypothesis, who want to understand the world through the lens of logic.
Sometimes, there is a place for another way of looking at things. For example, only by holding back logic can we pursue truly “blue skies” thinking and explore the seemingly impossible.
These posts will be asking you to hold onto the possible, the impossible and the improbable. Jump and see what happens.
1 thought on “Intuition over Logic 1: sense of place”
I think that intuition co-exists as naturally (& happily) with logic as with feeling. Jung would contend that intuition relates to perception & logic to decision-making. Thus whilst they are related to one another they may be regard independently.