Our group tries to talk about intuition. We try to speak about intuition in our group. First about something people have experienced, what we thought that we experienced of intuition. Actually, all of us had experiences about intuition. Often it had been just retrospectively turned out to have been an intuition. And you act in a certain context, but much later you say, why did I do that?

[01:01]

For example, bringing up a little kid, a baby, and reading a lot about education, how you should do this and shouldn't do that, and let the child cry. And Maureen had... against that, taking up the baby, and it had always turned out to be right. That's right, I think so, too. In educational books. I think so, too. We were on a children's holiday. Two children came to the paddock. They ran away. It was at night. I didn't have to do anything. I didn't find them. I was at a point where I didn't know what to do next. I started to do some breathing exercises, looked in the mirror and thought, it's okay, tomorrow morning it will be settled.

[02:06]

That's what I thought. I experienced when I was together with some kids and two kids got lost. And I was alone, it was dark, and I couldn't find them. And so I breathed, I breathed deeply and said, I looked at the sky and said, it will be all right, we come all right, and it will settle, regulate it on its own. It came to me as a perception, and the normal consciousness spoke to me, no, you have to call the parents, what should you do? And yet something calmed down in me, and I could not sleep. The normal consciousness said, oh, you have to phone the parents, and you have to do this and that, but something else in me, sort of like a boy said, no, you can calm down, everything will be all right. You lucked out. What? You were lucky, maybe. No, but if you have a strong feeling, I understand, yeah. Okay? Yeah.

[03:07]

The children in fact went, it was very dark in Czechien. The children were actually what? It was very dark there in Czechoslovakia where they were. The children among themselves had had an argument. The two kids who had run away just went to the next hotel. That's what happened. Just to end, maybe, I'll tell you an anecdote. Once or twice I've told this story. But it was one of the strangest things that ever happened to me. And clearly strange. There was a big, the second biggest fire in California history at that time burned in the Las Pedras National Forest.

[04:23]

And the force service and the police evicted us. And we followed their instructions. So they felt better. And then we went immediately back in. And we fought the forest fire. And it was heavy duty forest fire. 250,000 acres burning. And for two weeks it was just dark. At midday it was dark with smoke all the way halfway up the California coast to San Francisco. But we had finally had one forest ranger come in and he helped us. We backfired in several directions. And up. And the fire came in, and it finally came in, came in three directions at once, and we were able to save Tassajar.

[05:44]

And to just show you how scary it was, and dangerous, with two vehicles, we heard that Jamesburg, which is this little house where we stayed, went in and out from over the 14 miles dirt road. The fire could burn Jamesburg, so we decided to go out set up a way to defend Jamesburg. So first we drove out in two vehicles full of people and we had chainsaws and all the stuff you need. And we get up to the top of the ridge, which was about 5,000 feet, which is pretty high along the coast of California. I'm driving in, and at one point I drove... this four-wheel drive vehicle right across a burning log as long as from you to me to you.

[07:05]

I think about it now. It sounds pretty stupid that I did that. Because it could have exploded the car. But I went right across it and I got about 200 feet past that and there were just so many logs across, trees across the road I couldn't get through. And the trees were burning over our heads and so forth. I hadn't slept really for two weeks except naps and I was in quite a state. And the road is so narrow, you can't turn around because there's a 1,000-foot cliff right there. So I had one car wait back and I was checking, so only I went over that log. But I had about eight people in the car.

[08:18]

But since the road was so narrow, I couldn't turn around. I had to back up over the log. So I had to tell Robert. Somehow, then I turned around and we went back in. And somebody had hiked in from the coast and brought us cold Coke. I hadn't had a Coke in 20 years at that point. And boy, did it taste good. This is a thrill. And then we immediately packed up and we decided to hike out inland because we knew we could get out that way and to Janesburg. Okay, so with a young guy, what the heck was his name? Leland Smithson.

[09:29]

Leland Smithson, ein junger Mensch. Not that it makes any difference what his name was. He had been a logger, and his family, his father was a logger. And he was a very alert, skillful kid. He was 18, I think. And one of his jobs had been when logs come down a chute or something, you have to jump around and unchain them or something. One of the most dangerous jobs in logging. So he was full of energy and he was really good with a chainsaw. So I think there were, I don't know, maybe 10 or 12 of us. So it hiked out a different way and forded a stream, walked through a stream.

[10:32]

Now we were carrying all the stuff we needed. And we went across another stream and then up a... up a ridge where we hit a dirt fire road and we started walking out. And we got about 10 minutes along or 15 minutes along that road. And I can't explain it at all, but it was suddenly unearthly silent. Whether it was really silent or not, I don't know, but I felt this unearthly silence. I looked at the grass and everything, it seemed weirdly still.

[11:41]

And I said to everyone, we're going back. Everybody said, well, we're only about six miles now. We can go the rest of the way. I said, we're going back. And Leland, of course, said, I'm going ahead. And I'll carry all the chainsaws and I'll do it myself. I said, you're not going. I mean, I don't care. At this moment, I'm the boss and you're not going. And if we lose Jamesburg, we lose Jamesburg, but we're not going. It was not a matter of thinking. It was just absolute certainty I had to do this. So Leland agreed and we all turned around and went back and we went down to the stream and we sat down to kind of rest and eat, I don't know what, an orange and a candy bar or something.

[12:44]

And suddenly airplanes came over, four surveillance airplanes, and napalmed the whole area where we were. The entire area where we were just went up in a roaring flame because they were backfiring and they thought nobody was there. Das Flugzeug warf Nabheim ab, genau über der Stelle, wo wir gewesen waren, weil sie waren natürlich, sie machten ein Gegenfeuer gegen den Waldbrand. And if I had continued, you'd have a little ash, a cinder here, a relic. Relics, relics. Und wenn wir weitergegangen wären, dann hätten wir jetzt eine kleine Relikte hier, ein bisschen Asche. I can't explain, I mean, maybe I was just lucky, I don't know. But definitely, my whole body said, we're not going forward. We turned around, 20 minutes later, the entire thing was... Miles were in flame. It's probably similar to your feeling. You somehow knew what it was. Most intuitions are not that dramatic. That one was pretty dramatic. Okay, let's sit for a minute and then move on.

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