This is not going to be about the psychic friends network. (Who must not have been too psychic, since they didn’t see that whole bankruptcy thing coming, huh?)

No, I mean the ability to sense the rightness of something. The moment when the little switch in your head turns on, and you see the pattern in something, though you don’t yet completely understand.

I have had hundreds of those moments, and I have them yet, all the time.

THe moment when someone placed a practical mathematical application of trigonometry in front of me, and I was able to connect trig to the real world. And I understood. I didn’t immediately begin doing trig in my head, but after some time, I was able to.

Part of this is the ability, I believe, to recognize patterns in the abstract world, and their echoes in the real world. The way the trig tables work, and the angles they represent. Fractals and leaves. The way Pi can be represented by incredibly simple formulas that contain math any five year od can do, but is, by it’s nature, irrational.

At many times in everyone’s life, there’s a connect, a moment when you recognize that connection. Some feel it more clearly than others, some never at all.

Some feel that connect, and misinterpret it, perhaps to further their own desires, or to satisfy their own needs. Timothy Leary no dout thought he was opening a new world when he counseled people to tune in, tun on, drop out.

That harmonic convergence, that sense of essential truth… mine has served me well. And it has NEVER been wrong. In my lifetime, I have had- as I say- hundreds of moments of harmony like that, and eacha nd every time they have allowed me to tune the real world and my own perception of it into perfect harmony.

It has helped me do things in my career that are- well, frankly, impossible. I have written code for robots, for instance, that allows them to generate geometry at a level of accuracy two orders of magnitude better than the robot should be able to accomplish. It has given me a basic understanding- well beyond my education- of the nature of Christ, and of Christianity. It has given me understanding beyond my abilities in a wide variety of areas, and while I always verify my ‘intuition”, if you will, I grow to trust it more as I age.

SO when I say I wouldn’t trust Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, or Juan McCain, to watch over a pile of ice cubes at the pole (either one) it’s based on my intuition. There are PLENTY of people who can give lots of very good reasons. I’m not one. I just KNOW they’re scumbags.