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Clear Knowing

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Do you ever know something without knowing how you know it, but you just, as they say, ‘feel it to your bones?’ This knowing is referred to in some circles as “clear knowing’ or ‘claircognizance’. I woke up this morning just knowing that something I manifested was going to happen. There was this sense of calm knowing, a feeling of finality even, no excitement, no rush of pleasure, just an ‘ok, I expected this’.

There are many of us who have always known things but could never figure out how we knew them. I am not talking about the mundane, like knowing the answers on an exam or some fun fact, I speak about a deep knowing that did not come from study or some previous knowledge. Some may say that perhaps it was from previous knowledge gleaned from one of our past lives, who knows?

I have always recalled that time when I was about 11 or 12, I had to return home from school to retrieve a book that I had forgotten that I needed for the afternoon session because it contained my Spanish homework. I had to walk. I had no money for the bus and my home being just about 2 miles away, make the midday trek bearable. I decided to take a shortcut that would have taken a few minutes off the walk. About halfway there, I met a lady from my village who was also on her way home. We walked together for a while until I stopped under a mango tree, looking for ripe fruit. She went ahead and even though I started walking a few minutes later, I never caught up with her. I remember stopping a second time to play on an old mattress that we usually use as a trampoline. I eventually made my way home and as I entered my gate, I started to feel this sense of foreboding. It was strong and dark and I felt its weight on me. The feeling was so distracting that I even cut my hand on the louver glass window as I tried to open door to get inside. I have a scar to this day. I did not know what was happening, I did not know what was going to happen but I just knew something was wrong, terribly wrong. Some minutes past and I soon heard shouting and screaming and for some reason this caused the feeling to dissipate. I figured whatever was to be, happened. The same lady who I was walking home with some minutes ago had been shot and killed by her estranged husband. He attempted to kill himself but was unsuccessful. This whole tragedy was a 3-year wonder because things like this just never happened on my island.

I did not know how I knew but I knew.

I admit, it is not like I have always trusted my feelings. Many times I feel the warning but shrug it off and have always had to end up living with the consequences. I grew into the belief that ‘if I cannot see it, feel it, touch it, hear it or smell it, then it must not be real’.

Years later, the Universe has taken me back full circle. I have been reborn into believing, into trusting my intuition, into understanding and accepting that clear knowing is real.

So as nowadays, when I experience a sense of clear knowing, I simply accept that I know.