You Knew Before You Were Told. You Called It a Feeling

And then months later the reason arrived, and you said to yourself: I knew.

Every person I have ever asked has a story like that. Every single one. It is the most widely shared experience I encounter and the most consistently discarded.

I understand why we discard it. We have all met someone who calls their prejudice discernment and cannot be argued with. That person has done real damage and made the rest of us shy. So we swung the other way and decided nothing counts unless we can defend it in a sentence.

But a faculty is not invalid because it can be counterfeited. A compass is not useless because a magnet can be held near it. It means you learn where the magnets are.

The knowing that arrives before the evidence is not a superstition and it is not a superpower in the silly sense. It is perception operating faster than your ability to narrate it. Some of you have it in enormous measure and have spent twenty years apologising for it. Others have very little of it and have been assuming everyone experiences what they experience, which is its own kind of exposure.

Both of those are worth knowing about yourself. One of them is worth knowing urgently.

You have been receiving information through a channel you were taught not to trust. It has been right more often than you have given it credit for, and it has a measurable strength.