“No, the heart isn’t just a pump…. It is more. Scientists can measure its energy from five feet away. It radiates.… It knows things our mind does not, cannot.… It is a source of energy and deep feelings that calls us to learn, cooperate, lead, and serve.” *
         

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Intuitive Insights

YOU CAN SEARCH in the religions and philosophies of the world. Read an abundance of fine literature. Learn and realize much from the sciences. You also transcend and enhance all that and expand the mind and awareness with the wisdom of your heart.

Center

The heart center is not the physical heart, rather it is the energy associated with this area of the body. The wisdom of heart advises admiration and appreciation. When you focus awareness on acknowledgement of the good, the true, and the beautiful, you can more easily perceive connection.

The heart opens, and the thymus gland and immune system are enhanced. You can have formal and informal knowledge. You can meditate on verbal and scriptural wisdom. You can have a cognitive comprehension, since childhood, of all of these.

You then understand more, but also there is innate, intuitive knowledge. It is when certain revelations unfold at various times that you realize the depths of great truths. Death is but a walk through a doorway into another room.

You are here, then there; your frequency has oscillated. You are conscious of a subtler vibration than physical only. Too, you can be aware of the material, so you are expanded.

Intuition & A Nosy Ghost

Love is the key, that is to see no other. Wherever there is other there is fear, separation. Wherever there is fear of death, there is “other” than.

It was at my first formal attempt where this subtler world became even more apparent. It substantiates the abundant evidence that the unique consciousness of “you” does not cease being once the body dies. This case, one of uncountable numbers, might intrigue you enough to contemplate that there’s more than physical identity.

I had just met Suzanne Giesemann, along with her husband Ty. Both were US Navy commanders and Suzanne was Aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. Their daughter, Susan, was killed by a lightning strike.

Suzanne turned to mediums of communication. She wanted confirmation about coincidences (butterflies appearing as she thought of Susan). She consulted with several seers, intuitive practitioners, and received substantive evidence that Susan was conscious of her in Spirit.

Giesemann began regular meditation. She traveled to learn from one of the teachers. During the class, this mentor challenged Suzanne to give an intuitive reading for the group.

The teacher advised her to be mentally quiet, focus on a person in the group, and then verbalize the first impressions that came. As she did so she realized untapped intuitive communication skills.

She only began to offer workshops on communications after ten years of practice with thousands of clients, or “sitters.” I attended one shortly after my Mother’s death. There were sixty-five participants. The main idea was to help calm the brain and tune in to intuition.

Openness

As my Mother had recently died, I felt an openness. There were coincidences after her death that seemed to be communication from her, and I was newly intrigued. The sitter/partner for my first practice session was a woman sitting next to me, and, though I desired it, I felt apprehensive about my ability to do this.

Thankfully, my partner encouraged me—and then readied herself to take notes. It was a challenge to be calm and expand my awareness beyond linear thinking. Too, there were 64 others in the small room, and half of them already actively talked. Suzanne had advised us to have fun and say the first things that come to mind, so I let go.

First Session.

At first doubts circulated around me like a dust devil in the desert; there seemed to be no impressions despite my effort to focus. I worried about what the sitter thought of me! Many of the ten-minutes had already passed.

Then my nose started to run, and I began to sniffle, which was unusual. “That’s not normal, my nose never runs!” I said (my partner noted the comment). My doubts increased, but I continued to ask for, or be open to evidence. 

Then came the bite of the lower lip that one might do to solve a problem. This was not a habit of mine, but at least, I rationalized. it might show the sitter my effort! Then I thought, “Well, the heck with it, just say whatever comes to mind.”

I surrendered and focused on the signals I had predetermined. It was a subtle sensation on the right side. This meant a male energy. I asked a silent question, a telepathic message, “How old were you when you died?”

An impression came, a sort of vague picture in an old black and white photo—a man in his mid-70s.

“How did you die?” Answer: I knew somehow that it was a heart failure. The sitter noted all this on her pad of paper.

“What did you do as a career?”

The impression came that this man’s work had something to do with the earth. There was an image of the ground, soil, and rocks, that came into focus. It was an unclear picture, but it distinctly had to do with minerals or soil.

Then an image emerged in the mind (or somewhere in consciousness) of a garden with vegetables, and the sitter noted this as well. Was she being massively patient? Was any of this information related to her or any loved one she knew?

I continued to “play” and asked the next question, which was about this male’s family. An impression of a family of four, a boy and a girl and a man and wife emerged. The sense was that this male loved his family but that he wanted to have a better relationship with his wife, as if something was a little off. The sitter wrote as I conveyed these impressions.

The Nose

Giesemann announced that the ten-minute limit expired. Simultaneously a completely distinct image of a very large nose appeared in my mind’s eye. It was unmistakable, so I said, “Oh my gosh, I just saw an image of the largest nose you could ever see.” My partner noted it, and then looked up at me.

Now for the uncomfortable truth. I doubted the impressions I spoke were valid. How kind would the sitter be as she broke the news: it must all have been my imagination?

She gathered herself, then said, “Scott, you were spot on.”

“I was?” I replied, a bit incredulous. “This woman,” I thought “is going to be very kind and make something out of nothing here!”

She stated, “This morning, I asked in prayer that my father be the one who’d come to give me a message. When your nose started to run, and you sniffled a couple of times, and you said that your nose never runs, I knew my dad was here with you. His nose constantly ran, and he always sniffled.”

“He must have influenced me somehow.”

“Also, you bit your lip after that, and my father always did that too. Then when you said he worked with the earth and saw a garden, well, that clinched it. My father was a farmer!”

“Also, he was abusive to my mother, and that you perceived he wished he could have had a better relationship with her, well, it made a big difference to me to hear this. It was as though he acknowledged that for me. We did have a family of four, just as you saw, with a boy and a girl.”

She continued, “Also, my father died, most likely of heart failure at age 72, but he’d had Alzheimer’s and couldn’t communicate for many years before he died.”

“I’m so surprised,” I said, “but pleased it made sense.”

“Oh, it sure does. Also, by the way, he had the biggest nose you could ever see. At the end when you saw the image of his nose it was a confirmation that sealed the deal for me. My dad had come to communicate through you, and you made my day.”

So, this revelation of consciousness, my reception of a small speck of it, is only unique in that I, as have many others, focused and practiced. Everyone has the ability; no one is outside the vast awareness of the universe. ∆

* R Cooper and A Sawaf in Executive EQ (1997), New York: Penguin Putnam

Bio note: I was drawn to a career as a journalist. This started with The American Theosophist (now Quest Magazine, theosophical.org), focused on philosophy, religion, science, and the arts. This path lead to being an author, and then as editor and founder of several more publications, most recently Well Being Journal. See more at https://scotteminers.substack.com/ My books include Thoughts, Attitudes & Your Health and, with Shannon McRae, PhD, The Healing Effects of Energy Medicine: Memoirs of a Medical Intuitive.