Instincts

I guess Instinct and Intuition are similar things and come from similar places. In order to subjugate children and to make them more obedient and move to the whims of adults and teachers controlling them (rather than letting the child develop his senses so he or she can actually survive their lives) many children never develop their instincts enough to survive in this world and just become fatalities before they are 25 years of age.

Sometimes it is useful to be rebellious as a young person (at least in your mind) because at least then you might have a fighting chance to survive to be 30 or more.

Though obedience might be useful to the adults around you in some circumstances, other times it would be fatal and other times it is somewhere in between.

For example, in my own life while I was traveling in Asia with my wife and three children then 10 to 14 years of age at one point my 12 year old step daughter freaked out and ran up a tree in fear for her life from White Rhinos in the Terai of Nepal at Chitwan National Park.

Likely, looking back at it now she should not have been in the position she was in because she couldn't deal with where we were. But, there was no way for me to know that at the time. So, when she ran up a tree with little limbs like a mountain goat really fast because she was terrified when I turned around all I could say was, "Hey! That's not a good tree to climb the limbs are too small for you. But by then she was already 20 to 30 feet up this tree before one of the limbs broke under her weight and she came straight for the ground head first. Luckily, her hips caught between two branches before her head hit the ground and killed her so all I had to do was to grab the back of her head to make sure the downward motion didn't split her head when it hit the trunk of the tree.

The point of this exercise is one needs to be able to follow their instincts to survive. Unfortunately, there were no rhinos nearby when she ran up this tree, only an 18 year old guide named Krishna telling us of how dangerous rhinos could be as we stood there on the ground in rhino territory during mating season. In the distance we could hear what sounded like freight trains colliding which was actually males sparring off (colliding like mountain sheep) for female rhinos.

So, in order to be effective one must be in contact with one's instincts in an environment one understands enough for one's instincts to be useful in order for the whole thing to work right.