UNIT 16
Intuition’s Achilles heel
03-09-2024
In Unit 16 we present and demonstrate the Achilles heel of the individual with dominant intuition and demonstrate it at the hand of the relevant self-representations in The Four Horsemen.
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION
The Achilles heel of intuitives is their disposition to intuit possibilities in situations they themselves have not yet sufficiently experienced or investigated. Such intuitions manifest as bold speculations which become evident as such in the light of the actual facts.
DEMONSTRATION OF INTUITION’S ACHILLES HEEL
Please study the selected self-representations
DEMONSTRATION
The Four Horsemen
Extract
Book: pp. 49-50 [From the last par. on p. 49: “If we could make one change…” to the end of the second last par. on p. 50: “They don’t belong to the supernatural and are not to be conscripted or annexed by any priesthood.”]
Hour 1 of 2
URL: 00:11:03 to 00:12:08 timer
Hitchens:
“Absolutely! We’re all triune in one way or another. We’re programmed for that. That’s very clear. It wouldn’t ever have been a four-headed God. You know that from experience”.
Book: p. 50
Hour 1 of 2
Analytic commentary
In the above statement, Hitchens ― in the moment of reacting in the debate ― presents a bold speculation: “It wouldn’t ever have been a four-headed God. We know that from experience.” Hitchens states this in direct response to Harris’ preceding comment in their discussion about Frances Collins that “a frozen waterfall in three streams” put him [Collins] “in mind of the Trinity.”
Hitchens’ intensity of conviction is due to an intuitive irrational jump he makes based on the above-mentioned reference to an experience of religious people being “triune” and “programmed” for that. He intuits the image of a four-headed god and also intuits with conviction that no religion would represent such an image as a religious symbol. However, in actual fact there is a belief in a four-headed God, for example in the Hindu religion. According to Hindu mythology, Brahma is the creator of the world. Brahma is commonly depicted as a red or golden complexioned, bearded man, with four heads and hands. His four heads represent the four Vedas, each one orienting towards one of the four cardinal directions.
This example clearly illustrates the intuitive Hitchens’ Achilles heel.