I’m not sure if you’ve ever taken the Myers-Briggs personality assessment, but if so, you would receive a score along a continuum from Sensor to Intuitive. About 74% of all human beings will test higher on the Sensory side, which means they intersect with the world primarily through what they can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. Sensors tend to approach life more from linear, logical terms. There’s nothing wrong with this type of processing.
However, about 26% of human beings would score higher on the scale towards being more highly intuitive. Intuition is simply a different way of processing information, a wider level of pattern recognition. A immediate ‘knowing’ without being able to describe how one knows.
Over the past 47 years, I have found my intuition to be eerily accurate. My brain is synthesizing every experience I’ve ever had, every book I’ve ever read, every song I’ve listened to, every conversation I’ve engaged in and brings seemingly disparate parts together to form a whole picture.
Intuition is not 100% accurate any more than observing your immediate surroundings is 100% accurate. We all have filters that cloud our judgment.
What you are describing with conspiracy theories is what happens when people filter information through fear. That’s not the same as intuition.
Fear as a driver, for any person, highly logical or highly intuitive, generates stories in our minds and physiological responses in our bodies. Every human being experiences fear, some struggle with it more than others and a percentage will let it dominate their life and their decisions.
Being highly intuitive does not automatically correlate with having higher fear. As such a person myself, there is actually a dramatic difference between when fear arises with me and when I have a knowing of a particular situation.
Fear causes sensory overload, heart pounding, upset stomach, racing thoughts, headache, shallow breathing, muscle tension, irritability.
An intuitive knowing brings a sense of inner calm, mental clarity, muscle relaxation, everything slows down, and you have the ability to connect in a healthy way with others.
Some describe intuition as an aha! moment.
Sensors can have aha moments as well, all humans have some degree of intuition. Without it, we could not engage in higher thought. A scientist will be conducting an experiment, carefully observing and controlling variables and yet in order to forward a hypothesis, they must tap into their intuition.
Intellect (the logical mind) and intuition (the connective mind) work together, it’s not one or the other, we need both.
What we could use less of, though is fear…
