Many people are unwilling to trust their intuition, their dreams, their “gut feelings” when it comes to making a decision. “It is so unscientific.”, “It is unproven.”, are just some of the reasons they give. Even worse, when you refuse for a period of time to pay attention to dreams, visions, or other sources of information beyond the physical world, you will get those insights less and less until they don't happen at all.

    Sometimes, people reject these visions and gut feelings because they conflict with what they want to do, or with what the scientific evidence tells them to do. And, lets be honest, sometimes we reject those intuitive suggestions because they frighten us. When those visions or insights suggest that we should leave our well-paying job and go to another company or that we should give up the profession we have worked in and trained in for decades, and do something new, it is frightening, and we resist. But there is plenty of evidence that listening to dreams, visions, gut feelings, and other forms of psychic insight can in fact lead us on the correct path, even when we don't really know what that path is.

    Thomas Edison was well known for his use of naps to solve problems. When a particular problem seemed unsolvable, he would leave the lab, take a nap, and often wake up with a solution in his head. He didn't reject those spooky solutions that came to him while napping, he embraced them and they were of great help to him. George Washington was another great person who was sometimes guided by dreams or psychic visions. There are many others.

    In my own personal case, twelve or thirteen years ago the project I was working on was shrinking and I was one of many told to find a new project within the company to go work for. My intuition though told me that, after being there for seventeen years, it was time to leave the company and get a job somewhere else, which I did. I listened to my psychic insight. Less than a year later, the company I was working for got bought out and many people were laid off and were scrambling to find new jobs (a few that I knew called me and asked me to put in a good word for them with my current employer, that's why I know about it). A little over a year ago, something similar happened with my project at the new company and, once again I was told, along with many others, to find a new project to go to. But due to the economy, and particularly to cutbacks in government spending, the number of people looking for new positions in the company far exceeded the available openings. And being over 60 years old, and having skills that some considered outdated (although I had continued to attend classes and learn the new stuff), it became clear that I wasn't going to find a new job soon, so I retired. The good thing is, if I had stayed with that company I had worked for for seventeen years, and had been pushed into a similar early retirement, I would have been much worse off because that company had no pension plan, just a 401k, while the new company that I worked for for eleven years had both. That is just one example, probably the biggest one, of how I have used intuition or insight to help me make good decisions.

    Of course, the most important thing, as I emphasize frequently, is the development of our spirit and soul. When I looked at the advertisements in a magazine for spiritual schools and spiritual development programs, one grabbed my eye, I don't know why, but it did, and that is now the spiritual school I belong too, the one that is prepared to lead us into the new Age of Enlightenment.

    So don't reject your dreams, visions, and gut feelings.  They can lead you to something better.