Human Intuition

The human mind is an obscure, complex object to understand and interpret. The brain itself is fascinating and mysterious, and it holds many valuable features hidden and not realized by the conscious human mind. Many unexplainable phenomena have been associated in life and in literature through the mind's workings. Psychologists develop reasons why people do certain things that they do, but with every human being's perception being so unique and varied, there is still much left to explore of the human mind. Human intuition is one facet of the mind that is very interesting, yet not very understood. The supersensory ideas that human intuition provides are of the soul, world, and God. No matter how grand their suggestiveness, no matter how genuine the evidence, those ideas have no empirical validity, and they belong entirely to the intellectual due to the fact that the understanding cannot "prove" itself existent or not. Human intuition is different between all people due to the fact that each person's mind matures at different levels of spirituality, understanding, and insight. Plus, it's very difficult for people to unravel and decipher the true, deep meaning of events and things in life, when really, the meaning of life isn't known. Yet, the human mind is so powerful that it even reveals things to itself about itself and about life. Be it human intuition or a phenomenon, such an experience is called an epiphany. An epiphany, as a feeling, is a sudden realization or comprehension of the essence or meaning of something (Wikipedia). An epiphany, in other words, is when someone has "found the last piece of the puzzle and now sees the whole picture." An epiphany is accomplished when new information or a new experience, normally insignificant by itself, illuminates a deeper or numinous foundational frame of reference (Wikipedia). Common cliché's, that people use to describe an epiphany, are "Eureka" and "I have found it!" (Wikipedia). These are definitely

Cited: Barnhisel, Greg. "An overview of ‘Araby '." Short Stories for Students, Gale Research (1997) Literature Resource Center 21 November 2006 . "Epiphany." Wikipedia Encyclopedia. 9 Nov. 2006 . One of the most common, recurring themes in Joyce 's stories is the "epiphany," a Greek word meaning "revelation." "By epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture of in a memorable phrase or the mind itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments." Joyce, like his fictional counterpart Stephen, saw the epiphany as a crucial building-block of fiction, because it was the moment at which a character understands that the illusions under which he or she has been operating are false and misleading. Human uniqueness unexplored and uncaptured. The mind is capable of controlling your breathing and heartbeat involuntarily.