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This might be confusing to people who've only had strong intuition but no poetic inclinations or vice versa but for those who've had both, do you think that this little window that opens up and inspiration come out is also where intuition comes from? Does it feel like a similar mental or emotional state? From my limited experience with intuition, it feels very similar to me. I'd like to see if anyone else has noticed any similarities.
Similar but different. Poetry ... well, good poetry, for me, comes from a higher place, it is an inspiration not an intuition. My intuition comes from a 'deeper' place ; unconscious calculations and assessments, that can come from unconscious (or at least unaware) senses, some of them instinctual. Messages or results then get delivered to my conscious as feelings or images or pictures.
Just the other day, on another forum, someone was claiming psychic powers and a few challenged them to prove it . He asked one guy if he had certain things around him, where he was posting from ( it was a rather pathetic and calculated guess, I saw through it immediately and could see the reasons why he chose those things that he claimed to be 'getting a sense of' ) ... he totally struck out. Then I 'predicted' what was around the claimed psychic poster as he wrote ... and got it right.
... without being psychic I picked up enough of his character from his posts to be able to tell, but I didnt do it consciously ... it came as a 'hunch' or a 'feeling' then my internal workings filled in the gaps and made a picture. If I had been psychic, I would have got it exactly accurate ... not 'near enough' to impress the gullible.
So I see 'intuition' as a function of the unconscious that delivers its results to consciousness, - like your computer .... the unconscious has a vast capacity to process inits internal workings ... we dont really need to know all about that .... we just work through the screen and the keyboard controls .... 'input controls' and the conscious mind (which is like the computer screen ).
The higher world of inspiration, where great art and poetry come from, is different. Firstly as it has a strong creative element linked to it. Intuition need not be 'original and creative' to work. The great song writes itself ... the great orator isnt present - words flow from them ... the best creative types are those that can 'channel fire from heaven ' they are a conduit for their ( ? or 'the' ) 'super consciousness ' , parts of our 'higher aspects' ( levels of consciousness or 'trance' that we can enter into ) are non-local , and seem independent of time and space .... the imagination certainly is !
So in a away, using the same analogy, this faculty is like the computers connection to the internet. Then an unknown or unaware - to us - faculty puts our own individual stamp / interpretation onto it and produces a 'great work' .
I think things like good poetry come in as an inspirational process and intuition 'comes up' as an evocative process.