** note there is a part to merge in at the bottom

• part A: Informational – how the Intuitive senses work
  • pathways of the Intuitive operation system
  • the Imaginary mind: The central hub (place of inference and creation)
  • feedback loop (trust recieve cycle)
    • Evidence, sincronicities, feelings
  • sitting in the power: meditative awareness / intention / Discernment = connection to psychic power
  • the different ways we use our Intuitive senses
  • Connection to the framework: Intuitive Operating system
• Part B: Informational – how Intuitive awareness reveals itself and develops
  • my first Psychic doorway
  • awakening vs skill building
  • the early empaths vs late bloomers
  • belief as a gateway
  • why soul work / ego work /shawdow work is important
  • building connections to other streams / Sources of Consciousness: Higher Consciousness, Subconscious, spirit, dreams, etc.
• Part c: experiential – Practices and tips for the development of Intuitive senses
  • beginner
  • intermediate +

your Intuitive senses: the pathways of the intuitive operating system

Most people think of intuition as a gut feeling or an inner knowing. And it can be that, but it is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to intuitive senses. There are many intuitive senses, and when we develop them we learn how to communicate, both internally and externally, with ourselves and others more clearly.

These senses are needed to enter and explore other states of Consciousness. They are part of a whole Intuitive operating system, the pathways connecting the information to the central hub that receives and interprets it. They are the hands that pick up the food, the mouth that tastes the experience. They are like your paints and brushes, tools you learn to blend, explore, and expand.

Your intuitive senses are the pathways into the different layers of awareness, information, and consciousness streams. It is these senses that you need to develop yourself as a psyhic, but they are alot just innate capabiltiies se we have Within us that can help us lead a more aligned and aware life.

Our intuitive senses can be broken down into three categories. All of them connect and interweave with each other to create the totality of our intuitive senses.

1. Physical senses
These are the regulars of touch, taste, sound, sight, smell, and physical feeling.

2.Emotional senses
These are our emotional states and emotional vibrations. For example feeling happy, frustrated, joyful, sad, irritated, calm, excited. The emotional tones that move through us.

3.Energetic senses
These are often the most left out, so let us break them down deeper.

Seeing
Sometimes called clairvoyance. These can appear in the same way a memory would show up, or like a daydream. Sometimes bigger visions come through that feel more lucid than a daydream. They are highly associated with the mind. Eyes can be open or closed, each has different effects on the experience. This sense is associated with the minds eye or the third eye, and often linked to the pineal gland in the brain.

Feeling
This is when we check in with how the body is responding. How does this make you feel emotionally and physically. Is there a certain area in your body, like your chest, that is responding. Is there a quality of feeling rushed, frustrated, heavy, or open. In psychic work and other consciousness streams we always bridge whatever is being received back into how it feels. You follow the feeling to reveal the next thread or to get the complete picture. Often this can be in the chest, either pressure or frustration or love and joy coming through. It can be all over though. It can come from any of your energy centers or chakras if you work that way, or it can just appear in a more physical location.

Hearing
These can be sounds, word drops, or clear thoughts that come into your mind. Sometimes it can be in your own voice, and sometimes through the voices of others, known or unknown. This energetic sense is linked to your throat, your throat energy center, or throat chakra. When you have clearer channels of communication and speaking, you often have clearer channels of receiving or hearing. Speaking your truth, or hearing the truths of others, or whatever consciousness intelligence is coming through.

Knowing
This one is more of a blanket intuitive feeling of knowing. It sometimes energetically feels like it is coming from your back or your spine. A heavier, more grounded kick of knowing. It can be hard to trust this one, so you really have to look at the subtle threads. Often it is what comes first to mind, the first thought or feeling that comes without thinking. You will naturally tend to analyse this, and that is okay. It can be helpful as long as you recognize it and surrender to this knowing when appropriate. Especially when connecting to your subconscious, you just have to go with what comes.

Technically you can also smell and taste things that are not actually present in the room with you. This often taps into the feeling and knowing category, but yes, these senses can be energetically activated. All your senses can.

Both the physical senses and the energetic senses share the same words: feeling, hearing, seeing. We only know by our experience whether we are feeling more of our physical or our energetic sense. The reality is that you usually leverage some level of both at the same time.

This intention and attention work plants seeds inside us that grow quietly. Without us even realizing, our awareness begins to work on our behalf and supports even the regular and mundane parts of life.

the Imaginary Mind: the central hub of the intuitive operating system

Our intuitive senses connect us with the presence of unseen and eternal energy. These forces can influence us, as they often do, or we can influence them. All of the information that comes through the physical, emotional, and energetic senses moves toward one place inside us. This is what I call the imaginary mind. It is the central hub in the Intuitive operating system.

The imaginary mind is not something you imagine and therefore not real. It is simply the imaginatory center, the creative center, where you weave thought, memory, sensation, and experience together. It is the hub where everything lands, and where the system sorts, translates, and makes meaning out of what is coming in.

the imaginary self creates from a field of unlimited possibilities in the past, present, and future. This belongs here, because intuitive perception is non linear. What rises through the imaginary mind can come from something you lived, something you dreamed, something you sensed, something that has not yet happened, or something that sits outside of time completely. The imaginary mind works through potentials, threads, and impressions rather than through fixed events.

This is also where the subconscious becomes visible. The imaginary mind uses the same language we see in dreams. Dreams are the screen of the subconscious, communicating through symbols, colours, emotions, patterns, tones, sensations, and movement. Intuitive senses use the same language. When you enter the imaginary mind, you enter the subconscious domain.

Here you can access layers of memories, fragments of dreams, emotional residues, sensory echoes, and different pieces of intuitive or psychic information. It is not linear. It does not sort by time. It sorts by relevance, energy, and whatever wants to reveal itself in the moment.

With practice your imagination expands enough that it begins to receive psychically. Physical senses sharpen. Imaginary senses sharpen. At a certain point they overlap. This overlap is the beginning of psychic perception.

Meditative states allow you to enter the subconscious domain, where you can find layers of memories or fragments of dreams. You learn the language of your intuitive mind. These imaginary senses turn into psychic senses through simple intention. Directing your energy or attention elsewhere connects you to the collective unconscious and the infinite field.

how consciousness reveals itself

Unravelling them always comes in layers and waves. Just like any type of awakening, or even an everyday moment of realization, intuition rises out of a series of linked events, some known and some unknown, and it usually appears when you least expect it.

There is a parallel here with creativity. Some of our best ideas come only when we finally release the thinking or beliefs that block us. Sometimes it is a limiting loop that needs to break, or just too much noise or force that crowds out what is trying to come through. When the mind softens or shifts its focus, the opening appears. And it is the same with intuitive senses.

The journey is not about forcing something open. It is about noticing the moments when something reveals itself to you, and following the door that appears. Intuitive senses can be crafted and expanded upon, and they start to come alive in new ways. These senses can help you navigate your life, or you can dedicate them to certain disciplines like healing, energy work, or art.

The doors themselves always reveal in their own timing, usually when you are not thinking about it at all. If you are on the right path, the doors of other consciousness will come. However they show up and whatever brought you there, it is because you were exactly where you needed to be.

My First psychic Doorway: How It Opened

For example, in the early days of my meditation practice and expansion of consciousness, I suddenly started seeing images of what people were going to say before they said them. It happened a few times in a row. And just like that, I understood what psychic meant. I realized it was probably there the entire time.

That moment was surprising. It opened the psychic door for me to walk down. There have been a few more moments like this in my journey with other consciousness landscapes. Lucid dreaming, visions, seeing energy states. It really does feel like you are invited into the next level without knowing you were the apprentice or even knowing the game existed. And not always knowing what the next step is supposed to be.

Awakening vs Skill Building

Consciousness exploration is not a skill you build slowly like a habit. It is a state that arises when inner energy is free and unburdened, more like an awakening or a clearing than a project. Teachings and lessons, whether through formal study or the school of hard knocks, help clear the ground. But even then, the actual experience is almost impossible to describe with language, because the shift happens across your entire field.

It is the same with dreaming. It is not something you construct. Dreaming is a dimension of consciousness you realize and enter. And when your intuitive senses begin to open, they are the ones that help you cross into these states.

The Early Empaths and the Late Bloomers

Some people are born sensitive to their intuitive senses and receive information from a young age. These are the early empaths. In the modern world, their gifts were often overlooked or misunderstood. They were treated like emotional burdens. They rarely received the validation they needed, especially in childhood when our connection to consciousness is naturally more open.

If this is you, the work now is not about opening. It is about accepting all of it, giving it boundaries and structure that you were not given when you were younger.

You might also be someone who was sensitive from a young age and kept it intact, and that is rad. Or maybe you are more like me, where the opening came through a profound healing journey and the structure came right away. For me now, I have had to learn to turn on the faucet of surrender, to let it roam and take shape in the narrative of belief. Not wanting to believe, but having to believe.

Belief as the Gateway

As Don Juan said, “We do not need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips.”

Sometimes it is not an act of wanting to believe but knowing that you have to. To surrender and allow yourself to go a step deeper into the magic that your reason does not always want you to. It is here where you can dance with your Will.

Will can map to what we might call intuitive senses, energetic perception, and intention. It is a larger and deeper center than Reason, which is linked to talking and mirrors the everyday awareness, waking mind, and ordinary rational mind.

For all of this type of work, it is often our habitual descriptions that keep our perception and therefore our beliefs grounded in one narrow version of reality.

The Subconscious Database and Soul Work

Intuition connects to a vast unconscious database filled with memories, conditioning, beliefs, dispositions, evolutionary traits, forgotten experiences, emotional histories, and dream content. It is almost infinitely larger than what the conscious mind can hold, and it rarely turns on or off. It shifts within ranges, like everything in nature.

Part of this work is soul work. Psychic development is not about tricks or predictions. It is about learning to see the essence of others by learning to see the essence within yourself. You form a relationship with the higher self. The ego holds surface identity. The higher self holds your truth, guidance, and orientation. This connection operates through the subconscious language of imagery, emotion, sensation, metaphor, and quiet knowing. You ask, you receive, and you learn to trust.

This raises the deeper question that sits at the center of intuitive work.

What is the message my inner and outer world is trying to communicate with me.

This work becomes the opening of the flower. Each petal reveals momentum around you and within you. These shifts are often affirming and orient you toward higher alignment. Caring for your consciousness becomes a way of caring for everything connected to you.

Intention, Observation, and the Quantum Nature of Knowing

Intuitive transmissions are energetic. Quantum physics describes non locality and wave particle duality. Nature teaches that not everything is known through logic. Some things are known through feeling.

From a quantum perspective, everything is both matter and wave until observed. Observation creates cohesion and definition. This explains why intention has power. It directs what becomes real.

From a more magical perspective, intention is the wand. A clear intention directs the current. Sometimes you point the wand deliberately. Sometimes it feels like something else is pointing it toward you. Either way, intention shapes perception

Intention

Nothing in this space is turned on or off. Like anything in nature, the subconscious shifts within ranges and frequencies. Like a radio tunner. The imaginary mind is simply the point of access. It is the internal screen.

From a quantum perspective, everything is both matter and wave until observed. Observation creates cohesion and definition. This is why intention plays such an important role. Intention directs your observation. And what you observe becomes the form you work with. The imaginary mind is the place where this observation happens. It is the moment where wave becomes information.

So the intuitive senses feed into the imaginary mind. And the imaginary mind pulls from a non linear field of possibilities and subconscious content. This is the central hub of intuitive and psychic work. This is where internal sensation, energetic perception, memory, dreaming, feeling, and knowing blend together and become something you can actually understand..

Discernment, Surrender, and Sitting in the Power

Psychic information arrives as images, tones, sensations, emotions, thoughts, or knowing. Over time you learn which impressions carry meaning. This becomes discernment, the hardest skill in psychic work, especially when reading others.

In the beginning, for me the energy flooded in with minimal control. It could come like a full faucet or like a small trickle. Each had meaning that I was not used to working with yet. Over time you learn to sit in the power and guide the energy into streams, tributaries, and different pathways. It requires a discipline of grounding, of breath, of practice, and softening the overactive critical mind to allow the intuitive mind to take over. Then, after, the logical mind returns to integrate and close the feedback loop of development. This entire process resembles many art forms and paths to healing.

Orientation Within the Total Self Framework

It is recommended, but not required, to read the Total Self and Consciousness Framework post for reference to the awareness states and consciousness layers that appear in this guide. It offers a wider view of the intuitive and consciousness based total self framework, or what can be seen as an intuitive and functional human consciousness operating system.

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C. Intuitive Senses: a pathway of development

Here is a pathway for developing your senses. Coming from years of teachers, trainings, and courses, and also from my own experience, experiments, and processes. Here is just a suggested list and order. It is only one suggested way. Follow what calls and find your own pathways too.

Often when we say “I knew in my gut,” we also had subtle visuals, tones, sensations, or thoughts that came through without us noticing. Intuition is the bridge between the present moment and everything non tangible but still real. Mindfulness sharpens the physical senses. Meditation sharpens the energetic senses. These meet in the imaginary mind, where they blend and can be sorted. This is the integration layer.

1. Develop meditative awareness

Develop a sense of meditative awareness if you do not already have it. If you do, start revisiting it more now that you have this intention. Spend some time exploring meditation. It is recommended that before any exercise, you take a moment to enter meditative awareness or a meditation posture. This comes a lot quicker and works deeper when you have a meditation practice and are building out this muscle. Meditative states and present awareness are the bridge to the doors of consciousness, where our intentions can be heard.

2. Practice intent with the field

Here we practice the power that we hold with a clear intention.

Exercise: on a busy bus, out in public, or in any environment where you feel overwhelmed or flooded with emotions, say three times in your head,

“this is not mine, this is not mine, this is not mine”

and note what happens to your body with this clear intention.

3. Sharpen regular senses

Deepen your experience and sharpness of your hearing, your smell, your taste, your physical and emotional feeling.

This is a mindfulness practice.

Some examples:

• listen to a song and try to hear every element and layer of it
• try to smell all the different subtle patterns in a room, open your smell senses wide
• eat a meal with complete awareness, trying to taste every bite and every different flavour
• pay attention to how new environments make you feel, or how your body feels in transition, look for body sensations, emotions, gestures
• explore touch, different textures on the body, and connect that to emotional feeling as well

Tips:

Be curious. Look for hidden things. Have patience for what you might discover when you give yourself more time to focus on it.

You want to get the sensation of opening your senses wide. For taste, smell, and sound this is a pretty energetic process. Note what that feels like for you. For opening eyes wide, it can feel more literal, focusing on a wide peripheral gaze.

4. Expand the imaginary mind

Expand your imaginary mind.

Some examples:

• walk past different bikes parked on the street or on doorsteps. Look at a bike and try to imagine who owns it. What they look like, what they do, their gender, whatever wants to come through. Whatever you feel curious about
• practice going into past consciousness and dream consciousness

Example exercises:

• try and relive a memory from the past, gather as many details as you can. If you cannot see it, lean into its feeling, its colours, its sounds. Play around with your different senses and see how and where it can talk to you
• do the same with a dream

Use guided meditations to explore different types of consciousness connections. Link to some resources here if you want to.

5. Practice readings

It is recommended to eventually have some psychic readings done for you. This will open your energy and your mind. The deeper you are with yourself, the more these readings will be impactful as well.

Just like initial role models, or the first people to show you anything in life, the style of the readers you meet in the early days, the ones that really resonate with you, will imprint on your style. The beauty with this work is that often you do not need to go looking, or at least not looking too hard. The intention to advance psychically will already likely place things in your path that are aligned with you.

TO MERGE IN :

There is a deep fascination here with how the analytical left side of the brain meets the pure flow of the right. Where structure and surrender collide. Where the tides push against each other and create that still point. The place where a single stream of awareness begins to form. This is the foundation of the intuitive senses.

When the mind settles, the subtle senses become easier to feel. The noise drops. A different kind of intelligence rises. From that stillness, intuition takes shape through inner knowing, energetic impressions, emotional shifts, and the quiet movements of the body’s own language. As we develop this pathway and begin to understand its signals, we strengthen it the same way a muscle grows, the same way a neural pathway becomes clearer.

There is a balance to be struck here between learning, training, and surrendering. These senses rarely open when we are trying too hard or staying too logical. We build the practice, but we only receive when we soften. Relaxed breathing, meditative grounding, humour, and child like curiosity are nice gateways here. Intuition works in a loop of ask, surrender, receive, and trust. We can work intentionally with our psychic senses, but intuition, insight, heightened awareness, and those sudden moments of clarity often arrive when we are not thinking about it or forcing anything.

Working with intuition is also working with the subconscious and the layers of consciousness beneath ordinary thought. Here, there is once again the core principle of duality, the yin yang principle. A balance of hyper-correlation awareness, not clairvoyance. A pattern recognition across hidden variables that builds itself from the information we store in both everyday awareness and the subconscious database. Our eyes collect millions of data points we can’t consciously hold, but the system remembers. And when analytical systems become sufficiently complex and recursive — when they begin to model themselves modeling — they start to behave in ways that resemble intuition.

But there is also psychic seeing. A connection to a conscious intelligence beyond our personal knowing of patterns, but one that is still a pattern itself, because everything is pattern and energy. And the paradox — the duality — is that to access this knowing we must surrender logic and step into flow. Miraculous intelligence often arrives only when control is released. Yet there must also be knowledge and problem-solving and grounded understanding. When you know intellectually what is possible, you start laying down new neural pathways that mirror the “doing” that will eventually come.

The language of this space is not clean human linguistics. It speaks in symbols, images, metaphors, ripples, fleeting sensations, sounds, and synchronicities. It follows patterns that can be learned and refined. There is a universal grammar of awareness, and within it, the personal dialect of your own mind and field.

Just as spoken languages carry accents and nuance, and just as electrical systems and programming follow patterns, syntax, and styles, the intuitive senses have their own structure. When we learn to read this structure, a different dimension of perception opens. One that blends what is known with what is sensed. One that draws from both reason and will, grounding and imagination, the tethered left side and the flowing right side.