The Biggest Puzzle of My Teaching Career?

 The biggest puzzle of my teaching career?

How to teach respect for the intuitive.

Not mere relativism.

Not mete projection.

Not any kind of fantasy.

Patterns are what humans are best at, are what we are designed to recognize in action, in behavior, in communication.  Intuition recognizes such patterns.

Intuition is devoid of bias, devoid of advantage.

Intuition is truth, empathically and emotionally realized.

In the above post, I was trying to capture the essence of the intuitive, its deep nature, but my comments are a draft at best. A person's own intuitive sense will be partial and peculiar, biased by and to fit the shaping of their own circumstances and experience.

The real puzzle in teaching respect for the intuitive lies in whether a person is open to and aware of the intuitive or not. Reading and analyzing literature has been my own road to understanding how intuition can help us to make sense in the world. Working with the seemingly "undemonstrable but true" aspects of a poem or short story or whatever is one way to foreground how our emotions and empathy (or its lacking) and the back of the brain actually matter for feeling and understanding.