Medical Intuition. C. Norman Shealy Md, PhD

for founding The American Holistic Medical Association. The major reason for this was my hope that spirituality would become a major factor in medicine. And, to me, medical intuition, intuition, synchronicity, and reincarnation are essential elements in the broad field of spirituality.

      In April 1984, at the “Council Grove Meeting,” I met Caroline Myss, who introduced herself as “one of those,” when I had been discussing psychic diagnosis. I asked her how good she was, and of course she did not know. A few months later, I began calling her and eventually I demonstrated that she was 93 percent accurate in making a diagnosis physically or psychologically. We have worked together since that time, doing workshops all over this country, Canada, and Europe. In 1998 we began collaboration on The Creation of Health. In writing that book, I decided that we should not use the terms clairvoyant and psychic and we created the term Medical Intuitive. Although the concept had existed at least since the 1830s, this was the first known use of the term. So the birth of Medical Intuitive was officially in the fall of 1988. Since that birth, the term has become extremely popular.

      Unfortunately, it has been all too popular. At one time there were 1,200,000 listings for Medical Intuitive on Google. At least 99.99 percent of those listed have had little or no training or documentation. Many have written to me but with evaluation have been zero accurate. Other sociopaths who claim to be Medical Intuitives have told me that I had leukemia (1988) and lots of other inaccurate garbage. Indeed, I consider this type of nonsense intuitive malpractice!

      The main reason I am writing this book is to document the great benefit of accurate medical intuition! It is a field of great importance, which deserves qualified and competent Medical Intuitives. But first, we need to lay the foundation for the broad field of intuition.

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      INTUITION AS THE FOUNDATION OF CREATIVITY, SCIENCE, AND HEALTH

      

On January 8, 1990, Buck Charlson wrote:

       Intuition is an innate capability, specific for each individual serving as a guide, counselor and informer. It is an abstract quality of mind, programmed with a higher level of consciousness. It is a segment of a Universal Mind from which all knowing and physical manifestations are derived. Each and all of our bodily cells and systems respond to this direction. It possesses an intelligence we use intuitively and this may be expanded if we sense and believe in it. Training for this capability is needed, just as is necessary for all exercises.

      Buck Charlson is the creative genius who discovered hydraulic brakes, hydraulic steering, and held eighty-eight patents in the field of hydraulics. He had a high school diploma, no college, and yet discovered great principles of physics, which had eluded some of the most famous academic individuals.

      A couple of decades ago, the International Tribune had an interesting editorial on creativity and vision. At that time, two of the great giant corporations were floundering, and the editorial emphasized that it was because of lack of creativity and vision on the part of the leaders. I realized then that all creativity and vision are really the result of intuition. Art, music, poetry, every scientific discovery, and even the Industrial Revolution are all the result of intuitive knowledge put into play. There are numerous stories of famous individuals who have had unusual relations with their creativity. Schubert is said to have slept with his glasses on and a candle lighted by his bed so that he could awaken from a dream and quickly write down a new musical score that he had dreamt. With that International Tribune editorial and having worked with Caroline Myss for several years, I felt the time had come to evaluate how easy it is to “teach” intuition. Unfortunately, there is no known psychometric test that measures intuition itself, but there are several that measure creativity. So I taught a class at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. The course attracted some two dozen students and was carried out over a full semester. At the beginning of the semester, each individual was tested with the Agor AIM survey, Alternate Uses Form C, Christensen-Guilford Fluency Test, Ideational Fluency, Association Fluency, Expressional Fluency, Guilford's Consequences Forms A1 and A2, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale. Actually, the Ideational Fluency Scale gave the best results of all, with 70 percent of the students having an increase on that particular test. The Taggart Management Style Inventory also showed that 70 percent of the students had an increase. During the course of the semester, we concentrated on the following:

      • Deep relaxation training

      • Creative guided imagery

      • Brain synchronization techniques

      • Self-hypnosis

      • Music

      • Guided intuitive testing

      Midsemester we “tested” the students with experiential intuitive ability such as sensing the major illnesses in a given individual, and sending and receiving certain thoughts, words, or ideas from one person to another, and so on.

      • Creative imagery, symbology and affirmation

      The results of the semester were quite striking, with significant improvement in most of the students on at least several of the creativity tests. Following that, Caroline and I began our series of workshops, Vision, Creativity, and Intuition. Our initial enrollment was eighty-four students, and we had a plan of a four-year program with two long, weekend courses each year. Essentially, in its broadest form, Caroline and I alternated our input with Caroline giving her very broad view of the Human Energy System, Archetypes, and so on, which have been integrated into her book. I revised the “Medical Intuition, Intuitive Intuition Diagnostic Check” sheet and each month, the students were sent names of six individuals, generally with only one significant medical problem, or people who were healthy. It was obvious that the vast majority of the students would not practice. They did not send in their monthly reports, and they only wanted to come to the classes. Halfway through the program, it was therefore obviously clear that most students would not become Medical Intuitives but would develop significant skills as counselors. So we created the term “Counseling Intuitive” at that point.

      Over the four-year period, the class gradually dwindled to thirty-seven individuals. At the end of that time, out of twenty-one who took the “Counseling Intuitive Exam,” only six took the “Medical Intuition Exam,” in which they were to give a true medical diagnosis on forty individuals, presented over five days, or to conduct a personal counseling intuitive session with a client provided by us. The session was observed by a member of the Board of the American Board of Scientific Medical Intuition, which Caroline and I had formed during the course of this four-year course in order to certify competent individuals. None of the students passed the “Medical Intuition Exam” with a 75 percent accuracy rate, which would have been required for certification, but all of them were quite competent and were certified as Counseling Intuitives.

      I remain convinced that individuals can enhance their medical intuitive ability, but it takes great practice unless one somehow is born the rare genius to whom this comes spontaneously. Many can learn to play Chopin's music, but it is only the rare genius of a Chopin who can create it.

      I have no idea whether I could pass the Medical Intuitive Exam, because I am not the least bit interested in being a medical intuitive. My own medical training and certainly my clinical skill provide me with the ability to make a diagnosis at least 99 percent of the time. On the other hand, getting across to an individual patient what the problem is and what the underlying psychological, emotional, and spiritual problems are, is often a challenge. I would like to relate just a couple of cases in which I have used Caroline Myss or Bob Leichtman to assist me.

      A mid-forties-aged woman who was overweight and diabetic presented with pain in her throat. She actually had total numbness on the right side of her throat with no gag response whatsoever. This is one of the complications of diabetes, a neuropathy of a cranial nerve in this particular case. With her permission and with the patient sitting in the room but not listening to what I was saying on the phone, I called Caroline. Caroline stated, and this was the first time she had ever mentioned