Wisdom & Mastery
BUSINESS INTUITION - USING THE HEARTMIND
By Guest Columnist - Christopher Stewart

"Heart intuition or intelligence brings the freedom and power to accomplish what the mind, even with all the disciplines or affirmations in the world, cannot do if it's out-of-sync with the heart."
~ Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution

Many scientific studies have demonstrated the reality of intuition for getting information which is remote in space-time. Remote is a euphemism for "can't be explained using currently accepted physical laws."

However, respected scientists have studied the ability of humans to gather remote information; the ability exists, even if we are not yet able to fully explain it. [See the "Remote Viewing" sidebar.]

The experience of intuition varies from episode to episode, person to person. It may engage sight, hearing, implicit knowledge, or a variety of senses combined. Sometimes it is dream-like and has "other-worldly" qualities. Often it is accompanied by a sense of peace.

A typical outcome involves learning something relevant that you already know implicitly, but are not aware of consciously. It may be experienced as a sudden insight, certain knowledge that arrives without "effort", or as an inspiration or "ah-ha!"

Having an intuitive experience is like having a conversation with truth and tapping into one's own higher power. Unlike "facts" which presume a reliance on someone else's information, intuition is a direct experience that is self-evident and self-validating. It is either meaningful or it is not.

In the global economy today, we have enough technology, ability and capacity to blow ourselves up or to heal every human illness or need. That we begin making heart-centered choices has become even more vital.

Heartmind intuition or intuitive intelligence is a powerful tool for our continued evolution. When it is clearly engaged within a business or personal environment it reaches into a far greater awareness. This awareness is the connection of the heart beyond space/time, and shows us the domain of unknown events, people and potential.

To attain new visions, we must engage all of our abilities. Much business practice is adaptive innovation based on benchmarking. Real innovation is a new vision, a new dream that is actualized.

© 2005 - This article was prepared for Ivy Sea Online by Christopher Stewart. The individual author of this piece retains the copyright.

Christopher Stewart is the principal of Iona Consulting, based in Berkeley,CA. Iona Consulting was formed in 1998 to offer intuitive and research-based strategic consulting and other related services to business and non-profit institutions. The firm has served clients in the North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia.

Applying Intuition in the 'real world'
What is 'Remote Viewing'?

Businesses and governments have used Remote Viewing for many, many years. Remote viewing can best be defined as the controlled use of Extrasensory Perception (ESP) through a specific method.

Using a set of protocols, the remote viewer can perceive a target - a person, object or event - that is located distantly in time and space.

A remote viewer can perceive a target in the past or future that is located in the next room, across the country, around the world or, theoretically, across the universe. In remote viewing, time and space are meaningless. Remote viewing is different from ESP because it uses specific techniques, which can be learned by nearly anyone.

No one is certain how remote viewing works; only that it does. One theory is that trained remote viewers are able to tap into the "Universal Mind", a kind of comprehensive storehouse of information about everything, where time and space are irrelevant.

Remote viewing is usually considered a controlled shifting of awareness that is performed in the normal waking state of consciousness, and it does not typically involve an out-of-body experience, hypnosis, an altered state of consciousness, or channeling.

Highly skilled remote viewers may achieve a success rate of nearly 100 percent and may be able to access a specific target nearly all of the time. However, all of the data obtained may not be completely accurate.

Several different factors are involved regarding successful remote viewing and some targets may be more complicated to reach and to describe than other targets. As with most other skills or talents, the level of remote viewing ability varies from person to person. © 2005 - Christopher Stewart

What about the ethics of practices such as remote viewing?

Remote Viewing is making its way into the mainstream, via mass-marketed workshops and audio/visual training programs. Given this, it's natural, when thinking of any of these capabilities that some people once thought of as "science fiction", to ask about the ethics involved in something like 'remote viewing'. After all, governments have applied remote viewing for the purposes of spying, and the origins of the process are decidely non-spiritual. Asking about the ethical use of any practice or profession is a very legitimate question, and expecting integrity and high ethical standards is more than reasonable.

Ethical issues and questions related to remote viewing are no different than those pertaining to any other field, whether it be law, business consulting, medicine, accounting, or auto repair. In any field, it's important to operate with integrity; and in any field, one may find select individuals who do not behave ethically, just as there are others who approach their profession with the utmost integrity and skillfulness.

Here's what several different high-integrity practitioners of energy healing, intuitive and psychic consultation, and/or remote viewing have to say about the ethical issues related to remote viewing and other intuitive, psychic, and energy healing/reading methods:

Christopher Stewart, Iona Consulting (see bio above) - Remote Viewing, Intuition, Energy Healing

It is very legitimate to ask about the ethics of remote viewing. Remote viewing is a technology that has existed for millennia. Native shamanic cultures have used the ability to "see" for hunting, finding living spaces, protection and many other needs of their cultures.

As with any activity it is the ethical standards of the practitioner that matters the most. All of the best remote viewers that I have studied with and known have a deep ethical and spiritual core value that they assign to this work.Remote viewing has been used in the civilian world to heal traumas, find missing persons, locate ideal locations for business, understand markets and technologies. All of these are uses of this ability with high integrity. [Visit Christopher's web site.]

To quote Hesychius of Jerusalem:

"Silence of the heart, practiced with wisdom, will see a lofty depth;
And the ear of the silent mind will hear untold wonders."

Anne Dumauthioz, Founder, Be An Original - Interactive Guided Imagery, Reiki, Intuition, NLP

The ethics of intuitive practices are linked in my mind to healing practices (e.g. intuitive imagery and Reiki) because that's what I am familiar with.I only use these modalities for mutually beneficial healing purposes with willing participants, e.g. to create greater understanding, connectedness among people, to deepen sensitivity, personal introspection, and to promote growth.

That said, it's been my own experience that we all have an unconscious built-in protective mechanism that assures our privacy, and I don't believe there is ever a risk of picking up information that is not meant to be revealed. [Visit Anne's Be An Original web site.]

Johanna Carroll, Psychic, Medium, Teacher

As with any intuitive or energy healing/reading effort, the ethics or intention of a remote viewer determines the quality or result. I feel that remote viewing is somewhat like being a psychic spy. However, when one has the permission of the one being viewed, then the law of interference has been honored, i.e. I am never allowed to give or receive information unless I am asked for it. If we interfere, we involve ourselves in the karma of the other person, event, or situation, and complicate our own path.

Remote Viewing is considered more technical in nature than pure spiritual energy, and so can be limited to the material realm. In other words, Remote Viewing is excellent for detailing pictures of things currently present, or locked in history, and so can tell us a great story of who we are now.

Developed intuition and spirituality that is highly evolved has no such limitations. As with any spiritual practice, the integrity, experience, and intention of the giver of the information will affect the information that is available. Spirit does not allow anything through the magnetic field of protection unless we 'call it in' on some level for experience. This is why prayer is so important. [Visit Johanna's web site.]

Sounds True Interviews David Morehouse, Remote Viewing Technologies

Sounds True, the instructional audio/video-training company based in Boulder, Colorado, features the Remote Viewing training program by David Morehouse. In an interview Sounds True conducted with Morehouse, they ask about the ethical, spiritual, and practical issues related to Remote Viewing. [Read the Sounds True - David Morehouse interview.]

Sounds True is a company associated with ethical, spiritual products, so their endorsement in carrying Mr. Morehouse's training program offers some credibility. However, in the spirit of forthrightness, there are a variety of opinions about the origins and ethical use of remote viewing, as well as Mr. Morehouse himself. This information can be found via a simple web search, and at Remote Viewer.org.

Vernon Howard, as cited in Tom Russell's SuperWisdom Ezine

"As the mighty Amazon River empties into the Atlantic Ocean, it creates a vast area of fresh water. The river's constant power keeps the ocean's salt water more than a hundred miles away from the coast. Psychic power released through self-insight has the same purifying effect. A man living within the flow of his own fresh nature cannot be affected by impure events around him." ~ Vernon Howard [Visit the SuperWisdom web site.]
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