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Distinguishing Rapid Process of Thought from True Intuition · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We occasionally meet people who seem to be highly intuitive,
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  with very few facts and with a very fast response time.
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  They seem to understand and decide things successfully that
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  we are struggling to deal with and for which we need
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  considerably more time. In some cases there may be the
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  functioning of the higher power of intuition, but actually in
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  many cases there is simply a rapid correlation response going
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  on in the brain. Sometimes this is a matter of
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  experience and instantaneous pattern recognition.
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  In others there is a store of knowledge which has accumulated
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  and just a few data points guides them to the direction and
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  trajectory of what is taking place.
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  They may have a very efficient synapse network built in their
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  brain to speedily move data along and correlate it with
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  their decision making apparatus. In still other cases there is a
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  memory that may arise from prior dream experiences or inner
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  visits to the Akashic record, so that the event is already known
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  to some degree. The true action of intuition is
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  a powerful force, like a stream of light.
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  People have. Such experiences describe the
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  light bulb suddenly lighting up, or some other references to the
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  appearance of a light of inspiration that is sudden,
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  dramatic and clear. The Rig Veda refers to the
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  rivers of heaven, which, as Sri Aurobindo has described to us,
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  represent the powers of intuition and other powers of
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  consciousness descending from a higher realm of awareness into
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  the being. The Mother writes quote.
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  There is also another form, but that one is much more difficult
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  to observe, because for those who are accustomed to think, to
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  act by reason, not by impulse, but by reason, to reflect before
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  doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from
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  cause to effect in the half conscious thought which prevents
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  you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning.
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  And so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and
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  that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an
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  intuition, but it is not an intuition.
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  It is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning which
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  takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions.
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  This must not be mistaken for intuition.
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  In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is
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  something which suddenly falls like a drop of light.
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  If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental
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  vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside
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  or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain,
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  absolutely independent of all reasoning.
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  This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence
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  one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual
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  functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror
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  turn towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent
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  attention. That too one can learn to do 1
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  must learn to do it. It is a necessary discipline.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother Powers within, Chapter 21.
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  Intuition, page 159.