Intuition = fear?
In this article, there is an uncomfortable equation made. Intuition = fear.
The story concerns a young woman who was talked into letting a young man help her with her groceries and ended up raping her. She finally leaves when he goes for a drink of water and she had promised to remain where she was. It is at that point that the author says she listened to her fear and left. He says her fear was her intuition telling her that she was going to be killed (her attacker had killed before).
What seems strange to me is that there is no mention of any premonition before the incident. Only that her fear saved her. More worrying is the statement that her fear was the same thing as her intuition.
Is it always necessary that we feel fear before we do something?
Is it always the same thing; fear is the impetus for our actions?
Is fear really what motivates us?
Or, is it something else? Is it, in fact, something which alerts us, prods us, makes us aware but yet which is not fear? Could this other thing possibly be something more gentle yet more insistent than fear?
Is it foreknowledge in some form? An awakening to information in some fashion not yet understood?
Premonitions are scattered items of knowledge we have not yet assembled into a coherent picture. In the situation described in the article, such premonitions should only be fearful.
But, to jump to the conclusion that fear is the only motivator, the only way in which we can have foreknowledge, is unwarranted and unnecessary.
Intuition is not always gentle, but it is not always fearful either.
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