Intuition - beyond Reason

  As a student of science for more than 30 years, I am trying to express something about intuition / reason which I never thought I would. I had noticed long ago that Albert Einstein, a person whose intellect I respect, would not really take a definite position on science versus religious belief. I now understand that the reason was not a product of his era's taboos or beliefs.

  Something which I have learned over many years is the difference between male and female mindsets. Women use intuition more often than men. Men become frustrated at womens' "logic" which makes little sense to them. I have concluded, after many years as a male thinker, that age begets wisdom in this sense. I have learned that art and music do not need reason to be appreciated as worthy. They are appreciated intuitively. Women have been under-valued in some cultures for centuries for this same reason, a difference in the source of their knowledge - reason or intuition. The Chinese idea of Yin and Yang may express this difference with some eloquence. I think intuition comes from the sub-conscious mind, which absorbs millions of times more data than does the conscious mind, for example, everything you see, hear or read passes to the sub-conscious memory bank, and is dragged into the conscious mind when needed, even decades later.

  It is possibly true that major advances in science are a consequence of intuition. The scientist then spends a great deal of his time 'proving', or making sub-conscious intuition acceptable to reason. Reason uses only a fraction of the data available to Intuition.

Younger minds tend to confuse the spiritual (unprovable) with the man made business of religion in all its corruption and hypocrisy, which is probably why rejection of the unprovable among that group is higher than other groups.

 Here is a question with which to test and clarify your reality.

" When you think of  'self ', does it mean more to you than just your body ?"

If your answer is 'no', then you are probably a genuine atheist. If the answer is ' yes '  then you have a belief that your mind is of a different substance / plane to your body. Most of humanity have this view, which I think is what underlies spirituality and religious belief. How else can we explain this sense, sometimes referred to as ' soul ', common to all religions ?

  I cannot prove which is correct, only present the questions. The consideration moves into the realm of philosophy and science, which, put another way, to the realm of intuition and reason. In the end they may amount to the same thing if we ever understand all of the facts.

 In the meantime we have intuition / reason to balance as we see fit.