Allport, Gordon W. The Study of Personality by the Intuitive Method: An Experiment in Teaching From The Locomotive God. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 1929-1930; 24: 014-027, 14 pages (RC 321).
  The mind is continually endeavoring to structure its content in conformity with the unity which exists in nature. In short, the mind is under a constant tension to perceive wholes. Such an empirical intuitive view of knowledge has value in dealing with the problem of personality, for it alone enables the psychologist to treat the whole of his subject matter. Any satisfactory theory as to "how we know people" must recognize that inference and context are always in the service of the inherent tendency of mind to structure its content into wholes, and therefore to perceive intuitively.


Assagioli, Roberto. Dynamic Psychology and Psychosynthesis. Chapter 1 in: Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques. New York: Hobbs, Dorman, 1965: 011-031, 21 pages (RC 480).
  Introduces his seven part model of the conscious and unconscious domains : the lower unconscious, the middle unconscious, the higher unconscious or superconscious, the filed of consciousness, the conscious self or "I", the higher self, the collective unconscious. Outlines what is required to heal the sense of feeling intuitively that you are "one" and yet finding that you are "divided" unto yourself.
___. Exercise in Dis-Identification. Chapter 4 in Part 4 in: Ibid.: 116-125, 10 pages.
  Indications and applications, Limitations and contra indications, Borderline cases and psychotics, Summation and combination with other techniques.
___. Technique for the Use of Intuition. Chapter 4 in Part 14 in: Ibid.: 217-224, 8 pages.
  Purpose, Rationale, Procedure, Indications and applications, Limitations and contra indications, Combination with other techniques. Treats intuition as a psychological function which is considered one of the least recognized and least appreciated, and therefore repressed and underdeveloped of the psychological functions.


Berne, Eric. The Nature of Intuition. Psychiatric Quarterly. 1949; 23: 203-226, 24 pages (RC 321).
  the intuitive function is part of a series of perceptive processes which work above and below the level of consciousness in an apparently integrated fashion, with shifting emphasis according to special conditions. The clinical intuitions studied here were found in most cases to be based at least partly on preconscious, sensory observation of the subject. The dynamics of the periocular muscles express reality attitudes. The dynamics of the lower facial and neck muscles are more indicative of instinctual vicissitudes.


Berne, Eric. Intuition IV: Primal Images and Primal Judgment. Psychiatric Quarterly. 1955; 29 634-658, 25 pages (RC 321).
  Some forms of intuition are derivatives of primal judgments based on primal images. Such intuitions are thus derived from infantile experiences. These images, whether conscious or unconscious, are sometimes (or always) activated in interpersonal relationships and are related to the formation of basic judgments concerning people encountered. In normal adults, under ordinary conditions, such primal judgments do not come directly into awareness.


Berne, Eric. Intuition VI: The Psychodynamics of Intuition. Psychiatric Quarterly. 1962; 36: 294-300, 7 pages (RC 321).
  An example is offered to illustrate the fact that "ethical" as well as logical thinking can interfere with the intuitive process. Defenses against scopophilia, the need to be alert, and oral receptivity seem to give rise to a resistance against the whole topic. Conversely, intuitive faculties are probably most readily available to individuals who have successfully sublimated scopophiliac, paranoid, and oral receptive tendencies. Sources of error, and the role of the intellect in clinical intuition, are discussed.


Bogen, Joseph E. The Other Side of the Brain I: Dysgraphia and Dyscopia Following Cerebral Commissurotomy. Bulletin of the Los Angeles Neurological Societies. April 1969; 34 (2): 073-105, 33 pages (RC 321).
  Lateral specialization in left and right hemispheres is usually inferred from the effects of unilateral cerebral damage. It can also be demonstrated by testing the two hemispheres separately following their disconnection. Based on the latter studies, the author concludes that our attempts to relate mind to brain should remember that 1) the other (right) side of the brain is as intricately active as the side which does most of the talking, and 2) the lesser known and hence more fruitful area for investigation of mental activity is that carried out by the other side of the brain.
___. The Other Side of the Brain II: An Appositional Mind. Ibid. June 1969; 34 (3): 135-162, 28 pages.
  Imperception, Verbal versus performance intelligence, Spatial thought, Right hemisphere specialization, Music and the right hemisphere, Hypothesis of appositional thinking, Ontogenetic lateralization of modes of thought, Duality of the brain, The split brain, Illusion of mental unity, Summary of the hypothesis (One of the most fundamental features of the cerebrum is that it is double. The individual with two intact hemispheres has the capacity for two distinct minds), Potpourri of dichotomies.
___., and Bogen, Glenda M. The Other Side of the Brain III: The Corpus Callosum and Creativity. Ibid. October 1969; 34 (4): 191-220, 12 (18 Bibliography) pages.
  Our present knowledge of the neocommissures, Phylogenetic lateralization of the two modes of thought, Incompleteness of interhemispheric exchange, "Highest" cerebral functions, Lack of creativity. Creativity requires more than technical skills and logical thought; it also needs the cultivation and collaboration of the appositional mind. A foresighted community will strive toward a more harmonious development of the organism by assuring an appropriate training and a greater consideration for the other side of the brain.


Cullen, John W. Creative and Intuitive Management: A Psychosynthesis Approach. IAMOP Monograph No. 15-3. Thousand Oaks, California: International Association for Managerial and Organizational Psychosynthesis, 1990: 001-083, 83 pages (RC 480).
  (Preface, Introduction) Muses - Traditional arts (Iris: Creating beauty, Persona: Creative performance, Lumen: Creative writing, Lyra: Music) Art of Living (Erato: Creative human relations, Fortuna: Creative business and commerce, Juris: Creating justice, Vela: Discovery) Muses - Art of service (Dominion: Creative leadership, Laurel: Creative teaching, Zoe: Creative healing, Oracle: Intuition, Closing exercise).


Cullen, John W. An Introduction to Intuition: A Psychosynthesis Approach. IAMOP Monograph No. 15A-1. Thousand Oaks, California: International Association for Managerial and Organizational Psychosynthesis, 1994: 001-033, 33 pages (RC 480).
  Preface, Introduction to Psychosynthesis, Nature of Intuition (Opening meditation, Intuition key words, Stages of intuition, Intuition assessment, Meditative dyads for intuitive development, Symbolic alignment, Symbolic analysis, Mind held in the light, Cooperation with the planetary will, The muse of intuition, Oracle, Developing the intuition in a group) Supplementary readings.


Davidhizar, Ruth. Intuition and the Nurse Manager. Health Care Supervisor. December 1991; 10 (2): 13-19, 7 pages (RA 971).
  The results of intuition for the nurse can be accurate diagnosis, vigilant monitoring, and better patient care. The benefits of intuition are accentuated for the nurse in a management role. Not only does intuition facilitate the manager's understanding and grasp of situations, decision making, and actions, but intuition also enables the manager to have increased sensitivity in interpersonal relationships. Six guidelines can help in fostering intuition: It 1. must be respected, 2. requires self confidence, 3. requires experience, 4. involves risk, 5. requires consideration of the whole, and 6. can be learned from a mentor.


Eisenbud, Jule. Psi and Psychoanalysis: Studies in the Psychoanalysis of Psi Conditioned Behavior. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1970: 001-340, 340 pages (RC 506).
  Subject matter, Closed correspondence, Open correspondence, Types of hypotheses, Psi hypothesis, Problems of application, Problems of validation, Applications of the Psi hypothesis, Further examples of Psi symbolism in dreams, Voices of silence, People downstairs, Psi and soma, Preparatory and buffer reactions, Psychic pathology in everyday life, Dropping the pilot, Use of the Psi hypothesis in interpretation, Larger role of Psi.
___. The Subject Matter. Chapter 1 in: Ibid.: 001-014, 14 pages.
  There are a great many types of correspondences which psychoanalysis has drawn into the web of determinism. Occasionally types of correspondences are observed which do not fit squarely into any conventional framework. Such correspondences are disregarded without further notice as "chance coincidences." These extraordinary correspondences are the study of this book.
___. The Closed Correspondence. Chapter 2 in: Ibid.: 015-025, 11 pages.
  Considers the case of correspondences that present themselves within the closed situation of "crossed" dreams between two people. Hypotheses advanced to explain this phenomenon: chance, dreamers subject to the same influences, and communication between dreamers. All we can infer is whether our investigation of the correspondence contributed fruitfully to the understanding we sought.
___. The Open Correspondence. Chapter 3 in: Ibid.: 026-029, 4 pages.
  Considers correspondences where there is no mathematical basis for assuming the role of chance in matching the contents of a dream with the universe of events. Here illogical chance is more likely to be accepted as the rationale. In these and the previous closed correspondences, we search empirically for the data related to the events regardless of our view of the role of chance.
___. Types of Hypotheses. Chapter 4 in: Ibid.: 030-040, 11 pages.
  Considers extra chance hypotheses that can account for correspondences: they are the result of a third and prior event or there exists a communication channel between the agents involved. Analysis leaves the communication hypothesis as the sole means of fitting the correspondences into a deterministic framework. This too is discarded in favor of the Psi hypothesis.
___. The Larger Role of Psi. Chapter 17 in: Ibid.: 330-340, 11 pages.
  The intellectual contortions gone through, the devices adopted to avoid having to utilize a single insight that even gross attention to the phenomenology of psi could provide, suggests strongly that whatever it was that millennia and possibly eons ago began to force the separation from nature of mind as "cause" is still operating today.


Feldenkrais, Moshe. Awareness Through Movement: Health Exercises for Personal Growth. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977: 001-173, 173 pages (RA 781).
  Preface, Self image, Strata of development, Where to begin, Structure and function, Direction of progress, General observations, Practical hints, What is good posture? What action is good? Properties of movement, Differentiation in breathing, Coordination of muscles, Differentiation in pelvic movements, Carriage of the head, Perfecting self image, Spatial relationships, Movement of the eyes, Becoming aware of non conscious parts, Thinking and breathing.
___. Preface. In: Ibid.: 003-009, 7 pages.
  We act in accordance with our self image which is conditioned in varying degrees by heritage, education, and self education. Self education alone is to some extent in our own hands. The great majority of people live satisfactory enough lives behind their masks to enable them to stifle more or less painlessly any emptiness they may feel whenever they stop and listen to their heart (intuition).


Gearhart, Sharon Cranendonk, and Young, Sue W. Intuition, Ethical Decision Making, and the Nurse Manager. Health Care Supervisor. April 1990; 8 (3): 45-52, 8 pages (RA 971).
  In a recent study intuition was identified as a key element that enhances the analytical approach. The forced choice format of the study was described as misrepresenting the decision making process actually used in practice. It was concluded that ethical decision making is a multidimensional process. Nurse managers are in a pivotal role for the nurturing of intuitive abilities and systematic reasoning to enhance the decision making abilities of nurses. The integrated management style for the ethical decision making process interchanges the left brain (intellectual) and right brain (intuitive) styles depending on the demands of the situation.


Hasegawa, Makoto, and Kern, Eugene B. The Human Nasal Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. January 1977, 52: 028-052, 25 pages (R 1).
  The phenomenon of alternating congestion and decongestion of the nasal airways was studied. They found that 72% of the subjects demonstrated a clearly defined nasal cycle in which the difference in the resistance of the two sides was at least 20%. Individuals are not usually aware of this shifting rhythm since the total resistance remains fairly constant. The widespread presence of the nasal cycle suggests its use as a correlate of intuitive receptiveness.


Hutchinson, Eliot Dole. Varieties of Insight in Humans. Psychiatry. 1939; 2: 323-332, 10 pages (RC 321).
  Phenomenon in simplest form, Examples, Historical illustrations, General analysis of the experience, Occasion for insight (Two types, Second type of accidental stimulus, For what reason). The agent which sometimes occasions the insight is superficially an accident. Two types of accidental events must be distinguished: 1) that in which the event is consciously related to the creative undertaking, and 2) this in which the event is not used in the final product, but acts merely as a catalytic agent. The second type is believed to be the far more common in practical experience.


Hutchison, Michael. Stepping into the Private Sea. Introduction in: The Book of Floating: Exploring the Private Sea. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984: 009-017, 9 pages (RA 785).
  This is a book about floating atop a ten inch deep pool of water in a dark, enclosed chamber about the size of a small closet lying on its side. Evidence suggests that floating can suspend the dominance of the detail oriented left hemisphere of the brain, allowing the right hemisphere (which deals with large scale and novel information) to operate freely, giving the floater access to unusual powers of creativity, imagination, visualization, and problem solving.
___. Less Is More - The Sensory Restriction Tradition. Chapter 1 in Part 1 A Short History of the Float in: Ibid.: 021-027, 7 pages.
  Discovery of the blind pew effect, Floating in artist's garret, polar icecap, and monk's cell (Preparation for the hunt, Rites of passage, Spiritual withdrawal, Spiritual practices, Creative isolation, Involuntary isolation, Isolation on the couch, Getting away from it all), In the tank, Out of the tank. Whatever the terminology, after floating we seem to perceive the world with startling directness, richness, and clarity.
___. The Development of the Flotation Tank. Chapter 2 in Part 1 A Short History of the Float in: Ibid.: 028-037, 10 pages.
  While various forms of sensory deprivation have been used for thousands of years, it was a brain scientist, John Lilly, who developed the flotation tank. His reasoning was that to adequately study a system, the brain in this instance, all known influences to and from the system must be either attenuated below the threshold of excitation, reliably accounted for, or eliminated to avoid unplanned disturbances to that system. Then disturbances from unknown sources could be found and studied more carefully.
___. Deep Relaxation and Beyond. Chapter 16 in Part 3 Ways of Floating in: Ibid.: 131-137, 7 pages.
  Ways of letting go (Breath awareness: abdominal and nose, Moving around the body), Practicing visualization (Body imagery, Visualization of light, Moving light around the body, In the mind's eye). A major reason for the tank's range of effects is that, while floating, our bodies become more deeply relaxed than is possible in everyday life, and this happens effortlessly. Efforts made in the tank to relax will only hinder relaxation. Achievement occurs by deciding not to achieve anything.


Kurtz, Ron. The Essential Process. Chapter 5 in: Body Centered Psychotherapy: The Integrated Use of Mindfulness, Nonviolence and the Body. Mendocino, California: Life Rhythm, 1990: 067-074, 8 pages (RC 489).
  An expression of the principles; The method of evoked experiences in mindfulness; Establishing mindfulness; In mindfulness, evoke experiences; The transition to processing; State specific processing; The best leader. Mindfulness is characterized by relaxed volition. It is an open, undefended, quiet state in which one can be extremely sensitive. It is a willingness to allow oneself to be affected.
___. Lowering the Noise: The Sensitivity Cycle. Chapter 15 in: Ibid.: 164-175, 12 pages.
  Awareness, mindfulness, attention, and insight make action more effective in response to the situation. As we relax our efforts, the potential for awareness increases. Relaxation is a dropping of effort that means less noise. With less noise, more sensitivity and more awareness prevail. These conditions for successful body centered therapy can be applied directly to developing The Intuitive Self.


Lewis, Dennis. The Tao of Natural Breathing: For Health, Well Being and Inner Growth. San Francisco, California: Mountain Wind Publishing, 1997: 001-186, 186 pages (RA 782).
  Natural breathing habits are an essential ingredient in tuning our bodies to receive the deeper intuitive awareness that lies within: The mechanics of breathing, Breath, emotions, and the art of self sensing, The Taoist vision of energy and breath, The whole body breath, The spacious breath, The smiling breath, circulating the vital breath, Specialized breathing practices, The psychological dimensions of the microcosmic orbit.
___. The Mechanics of Breathing. Chapter 1 in: Ibid.: 025-043, 19 pages.
  The process of breathing, if we can begin to understand it in relation to the whole of life, shows us the way to let go of the old and open to the new: Some personal history, The need for clarity and mindfulness, The anatomy of breathing, The phases of breathing, The inner breath, The respiratory center, The respiratory muscles (The diaphragm - the "spiritual muscle," Restrictive influences on the diaphragm, Compensating for a poorly functioning diaphragm), The harmful effects of bad breathing habits.
___. Breath, Emotions, and the Art of Self Sensing. Chapter 2 in: Ibid.: 045-073, 29 pages.
  The work with breathing starts with sensing the inner atmosphere of our organism: The work of sensory awareness, The world in the body, Perceptual reeducation and wholeness, The importance of following the breath, Listening to the body, Self sensing, The three kinds of breath, The quality of our breathing, Every state of mind is a state of our immune system, Emotions and the autonomic nervous system, The importance of effortless effort, The power of perceptual freedom, Awakening organic self awareness.


McKenzie, Leon. Supervision as Art: Imagination and Intuition. Health Care Supervisor. January 1988; 6 (2): 1-12, 12 pages (RA 971).
  Art: Imagination and intuition (Imagination and preparation, Imagination and evaluation), The concept of intuition, Supervision and intuition (Intuition or whim? Conditions, Supervisory work: Intuition and logic, Gaining insight). There are times when situations call for supervisors to be artists.


McNiff, Shaun. Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1992: 001-231, 231 pages (RC 489).
  Although the book focuses on art therapy, the themes are relevant for recovery of The Intuitive Self: Context (Simple beginnings, Shamanic continuities, Attunement to the archetypal, A link to the "art world," Psyche's movement, Imaginal realism, Artist and angel, The diamonic tradition) Dialoguing and other methods (Loquent meditations, Creation stories, Responding, Talking with images, The value of dialogue, Performance, Dreaming) Demonstration (Image dialogues).


Mikuriya, Tod H. Interhemispheric Alpha Rhythm Synchronization - A Voluntary Altered State of Consciousness. American Journal of Clinical Biofeedback. 1979; 2 (1): 022-025, 4 pages (RC 487).
  EEG feedback of synchronization of right and left occipital alpha rhythms appears to produce a degree of mental quietude. Some subjects reported they recognized the accompanying mental state from other contexts such as meditation or intuitive problem solving. Although intuition is often attributed to right hemisphere activity, it may represent instead unusual synchronization of both hemispheres.


Needleman, Jacob. A Great and Honorable Passion. Chapter 2 in Part I The Dream of the Great Physician in: The Way of the Physician. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985: 008-011, 4 pages (R 727).
  Science swallows the mind. There is no longer a creative struggle between our own intuition and the whole of science. We have our intuition, but it has been isolated in some kind of concentration camp of the psyche. Science springs from the greatest mystical teachings. Faithfulness to the visible world springs from faithfulness to the invisible world.
___. Attention. Chapter 5 in Part I The Dream of the Great Physician in: Ibid.: 038-054, 17 pages.
  Attention looks with an intensity that arises only when all one's deeply rooted opinions are destroyed. This force of attention appears when through a situation of total urgency, all the routine functions of the whole human mind release the higher energies held captive by them. The human organism has the phenomenal capacity to serve as a conduit for the creation of unbound attention.
___. The Staff of Hermes. Chapter 18 in Part III To the Reader: Toward a New Beginning in: Ibid.: 170-187, 18 pages.
  A physician (manager) in the truest sense of the term - a human being - is not simply two beings. He is two in one, which means, actually three. He is inner being and outer knowledge together in stable harmony. The force that enables this harmony is the true self, the true Man . In ancient China, this true man was called the Great Physician.


Ravizza, Dick. Nasal Cycle: Evaluation of a Technique for Shifting Nasal Dominance. Research Bulletin of the Himalayan International Institute Dana Laboratory. 1982; 4 (1): 012-021, 10 pages (RA 781).
  The yogic tradition emphasizes the importance of having the appropriate nostril dominant when engaged in a particular task. This study showed that when a subject lays on his or her side the distribution of air flow between the nostrils shifts so that the upper nostril carries an increased proportion of the air. Perhaps laying on the right side can be used to alter the hemispheric cycle to support the intuitive mode of knowing.


Rogers, Carl R. "To Be That Self Which One Truly is:" A Therapist's View of Personal Goals. Chapter 8 in Part 4 A Philosophy of Persons in: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961: 163-182, 20 pages (RC 480).
  (Questions, Answers, Another view), Directions taken by clients (Away from facades, "oughts," meeting expectations, pleasing others, Toward self direction, being process, being complexity, openness to experience, acceptance of others, trust of self, The general direction), Some misapprehensions (Does it imply fixity, being evil?), Social implications, Summary.
___. A Therapist's View of the Good Life: The Fully Functioning Person. Chapter 9 in Part 4 A Philosophy of Persons in: Ibid.: 183-196, 14 pages.
  (A negative observation, A positive observation), The characteristics of the process (An increasing openness to experience, existential living, trust in organism, The process of functioning more fully), Some implications (New perspective on freedom versus determinism, Creativity as an element of the good life, Basic trustworthiness of human nature, The greater richness of life).


Russell, Douglas. Developing Spiritual Intuition through Psychosynthesis. Unknown. Duplicated monograph. March 1977: 001-050, 50 pages (RC 480).
  The purpose of this paper is to communicate practical ways of developing the intuitive function, especially its transpersonal or spiritual aspects. Spiritual intuition is a guiding function. It is a synthetic understanding arising when the integrated (at least temporarily) personality is related to collective levels of being through the Higher Self. Spiritual intuition is a transpersonal awareness and an aspect of universal love energy.

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