My opinion? Most people perform intuitive practices based on faith rather than a post-rational formalized approach. (That is, an evolved analog to the scientific method, but predicated on different epistemological and phenomenological models.) Lacking a reliable understanding of their abilities outside their practice and whatever metaphysical (is religious) explanation they espouse, they are unable to create a sound methodology for reliably testing them. Just because someone is intuitively gifted does not mean they have an evolved/-ing consciousness. Erin is really a gem in that sense.
Personally, I look forward to a time when we develop trans-rational epistemological frameworks that account for both exterior (eg scientific) as well as interior (eg intuitive, spiritual) phenomena, though there are probably going to be a lot of bruised egos on both sides of the fence when that happens. |