Thoughtful Patterns.

Using patterns to encourage Intuitive Associative Thinking.

Believe humans by nature are associative thinkers, Ability to learn and remember relationships between apparently unrelated items.

We use memory cues routinely often subconsciously as memory prompts, Like covers of much loved books, Family pictures weddings births and picnics, All trigger vivid recalls of special memory moments.

Believe intuition is ability to understand something instinctively, Experience taught me that intuitive insights need validation and refinement before sharing.

Often regard intuition as subconscious process of creating or exploiting mental memory cues for highlighting to conscious mind unexpected idea relationships.

Encouraging Intuition.

Engineering and IT career fixated on behaviors of complex financial systems, Often relied on Intuition to quickly identify issues.

Now academic, Finding tertiary students and relationships amenable to similar intuitive perspectives.

Needed to improve or at least facilitate my intuitive thinking, Searching web not expecting to find much help, Froth and bubble possible scams, Pleased I had such low expectations.

Sipping coffee on comfortable couch, Late afternoon sun dancing with Draco’s trunk and leaves creating ever changing patterns in light and shadow, Daydreaming, Mind entered something like state of free association.

Free association mental expression and exploration of my consciousness without censorship to gain understanding and access to unconscious processes.

In one sense free thinking is art of exercising freedom from negative and illusive influences acquired or applied by society, Difficulty encountered is identifying internal versus external filters and attitudes.

Contemplating my free-thinking experience, Thought that essence of free association lay in applying series of new memory cues that created different perspectives to explore existing thoughts and gain new insights.

One such insight was realising that I’d been applying manipulation of memory cues over many years in my studies of rock sand and light.

Dolmens. Thought Given Structure.

England in 1970's, First saw dolmen, Oldest known date from 7000 years ago, Archaeologists don’t know who erected them or why, No clear evidence for tombs or burial chambers.

Exercising imagination, Given labor and effort considered Dolmens were important to community, Perhaps symbol of unity, Easily found focal point for community gatherings.

My dolmen model as focal point in contemplative studies of light rock and sand, Rounded pebble represented either myself or problem, Doleman container of context, Beam of sunlight represented relationships and flows of causality, Helped me imagine and visualize complex problems and solution approaches.

Blessed be.