...nature and power of that science-baffling star, without parallax, without calculable elements. . . . The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence...Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition. Emerson, "Self- Reliance," in Essays and Lectures, p. 269. Emersonian spontaneity, as will immediately...

...God. This is the antecedent of the concept of inspiration, of which Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance": "the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which...Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition. . . . In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common...

...is what Emerson calls "the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded, ... it is that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life. . ." (Emerson, 1984, p. 187). As our personal inheritance, this information is much older than each...

...reliance may be grounded? What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star, without parallax, without calculable elements, which shoots a ray of...whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For, the...

...invoked, what Emerson terms "involuntary perceptions" as well as "Spontaneity or Instinct," adding: "We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions" (CW2, 37).2 In writing of "perceptions," Emerson has in mind an awareness of various subject matters...