Goldberg, Philip. The Intuitive Edge: Understanding and Developing Intuition. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1983: 001-226, 226 pages (BD 181).
  Emergence of intuition, What it is: definitions and distinctions, Many faces of intuition, Intuitive experience, Who is intuitive? Right brain, wrong theory, Intuitive mind, Getting ready, Turning off to tune in, Forgo it, or go for it? Making the world safe for intuition. Westcott quote: "The last word on intuition is as far in the future as the first word on intuition is in the past.".
___. The Emergence of Intuition. Chapter 1 in: Ibid.: 015-029, 15 pages.
  Legacy of scientism, Do as it does, not as it says, Grooming of intuition. Begins with the Albert Einstein quote "The really valuable thing is intuition." This book is part of the corrective effort to bring intuition out into the open, to demystify it, to see what it is, how it works, and what can be done to cultivate its full potential.
___. What It Is: Definitions and Distinctions. Chapter 2 in: Ibid.: 031-043, 13 pages.
  Relaxing the dichotomy, Is intuition merely fast reasoning? What qualifies as intuition? The word intuition means various things to different philosophers, psychologists, and laypersons, but the basic sense of the term is captured in the dictionary definition: "the act or faculty of knowing directly, without the use of rational processes.".
___. The Many Faces of Intuition. Chapter 3 in: Ibid.: 045-061, 17 pages.
  Six types of intuition: Discovery (Understanding out of the blue), Creativity (Generative is similar to discovery form), Evaluation (Making the ultimate choice), Operation (Guiding sense of direction), Prediction (Making forecasts), Illumination (Satori, Cosmic consciousness).
___. The Intuitive Experience. Chapter 4 in: Ibid.: 063-085, 23 pages.
  Incubation: the pause that enlightens, Paradoxes of intuition, Holistic nature of intuition, Flash in the mind, Language of intuit ion, Emotions of knowing, Transcendental exemplar, Personal reflection. Ten hallmarks of intuition used to evaluate ones own intuitive experiences.
___. Who Is Intuitive? Chapter 5 in: Ibid.: 087-113, 27 pages.
  Intuition can be circumstantial, Matters of style and substance, Stereotypes or intuitives? (Woman's intuition, Bowing to the east, Is intuition kid stuff?), The intuitive personality, Westcott's intuitive problem solving scale, Are you intuitive? (A 32 item questionnaire for determining your basic style of approaching problems as either intuitive or analytic).
___. Right Brain, Wrong Theory. Chapter 6 in: Ibid.: 115-133, 19 pages.
  The right stuff and the left stuff, Studying the studies, Toward an integrated view (For intuition integration of the two hemispheres may be more significant than each separately), The amazing microstructure (Our thinking apparatus will look less like a computer and more like a mind), The heretical holographic brain (Cites Karl Pribram and David Bohm).
___. The Intuitive Mind. Chapter 7 in: Ibid.: 135-153, 19 pages.
  Deep thought, Uncharted depths of the mind (Collective unconscious, Formative causation, Plato's forms), One step deeper: the view from the east, The practical implications. Opens with Aldous Huxley quote "Knowledge is a function of being. When there is a change in the being of the knower, there i s a corresponding change in the nature and amount of knowledge.".
___. Getting Ready for Intuition. Chapter 8 in: Ibid.: 155-172, 18 pages.
  Setting the stage, Giving direction to your intuition (What is the problem? Express it in writing, Not just the facts, ma'am, Brainstorming with yourself). Intuition can't be ordered, commanded, implored, or contrived. We simply have to be ready for it. The central factor in determining our readiness is our stat e of consciousness.
___. Turning Off to Tune In. Chapter 9 in: Ibid.: 173-194, 22 pages.
  To sleep, perchance to dream, Meditation: the inner core, Getting physical (Stretching for intuition, Respiration for inspiration, Muscling up to intuition), Imagining and intuiting (A mental journey, Intuition on the spot), The herald arrives. Incubation seems to be a universal principle. The intuitive mind may need a rested, coherent nervous system and a little solitude.
___. Forgo It, or Go for It? Chapter 10 in: Ibid.: 195-212, 18 pages.
  Why we pass on it, Mistaking the chaff for wheat, Validating intuition, Intuition evaluating intuition, The intuition journal, Practice makes perfect (Lists nine practice ideas to be done either solo or in a group).
___. Making the World Safe for Intuition. Chapter 11 in: Ibid.: 213-226, 14 pages.
  Expansion of science, Liberation of intuition, Researching intuition. If ever an age cried out for intuitive wisdom it is ours. Yet the educational institutions that teach us how to use our minds, and the organizations in which we use them, have not been structured to nurture intuition. We need to change this and to make a high priority of understanding how the intuitive mind works.

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