Intuitive Knowledge

"Intuitive knowledge occurs in a spontaneous non sequential, instantaneous flash, not preceded by a logically related or associated thought or not followed by one but a moments flash may contain a vast universe condensed in a single point of light."
Quote by Swami Veda Bharati from the Seminar Intuition in Knowledge Creating Organizations Rotterdam World Trade Center, May 2002

Organizations are challenged by the flow and evolution of explicit and tacit knowledge within their systems. While many change processes are geared towards building knowledge management systems and the establishment of knowledge creating businesses, the assumptions underlying these processes need further deepening to ensure sustainable transformation of organizations towards true service delivery. Certainly organizations benefit from teamwork, from standards of excellence, from dialogue, from quality control. But all these rely fundamentally on a skill we rarely develop directly: the skill of thinking holistically, seeing the one-ness of processes in life with the highest form of concentration.

While tacit knowledge is defined as the accumulated portion of experiences and skills within people gained through cognition in one's lifetime, intuitive knowledge goes beyond the archetype of thinking. Intuition has never been depending on the contact between sense and object and is therefore never false. Intuitive knowledge in oriental philosophies and practices is perceived after a person's mind is silenced and cleansed through special practices.

This knowledge is required to listen to the inner call and to mobilize the treasure within for creative and holistic planning, design, interaction with human and nature, decision making, leadership, et cetera. People in knowledge extensive organizations and their leaders have to develop another capacity to perceive the nature of the game and the rules by which it's played as they are playing. One should not try to solve anything, but just to relax and observe it. The solution comes from the deeper layers of the mind, through stillness and not by force and tension. That is what distinguishes creative businesses from business-as-usual organizations.