Museum Victoria's head of science, Dr Mark Norman, has been studying octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes and nautiluses – otherwise known as the cephalopods – for more than two decades.

While Dr Nornam admits to being an Octopus Paul sceptic, he says the sea creature should not be underestimated.

"They're clever animals with big brains and they do amazing things," he said.

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The past century of business decisions have been made and defended by numbers such as net present value, rate of return and payback periods, competitive analysis, customer surveys, variable unit costing, cost of capital, and total shareholder return. and the list could go on. Where does intuition fit in all that data?

Yet, in a study by Harvard's Jagdish Parikh of 13,000 executives, they indicated that they relied on both left-brain analytical skills and right-brain intuitive feelings equally, but they credited 80% of their success to right-brain intuition. Read the rest of this article

Who opened a window? I wonder, before recalling that the solitary window in my bathroom is made from glass block and sealed shut with gray mortar. To compensate for the chill, I turn the handle on the shower's faucet, increasing the heat until steam billows from above my stall.

Then something entirely different washes over me – a voice – a distinct solitary voice in my head. "Check your breast," it says. My heart begins to race. "Which breast?" I reply silently. "Your left," the voice instructs. And my right hand, as if directed, led by my right index finger, presses immediately on a small, hard immovable lump. Read the rest of this article

Tammy Aronson had a bad feeling that day in 1983. And if she hadn't trusted her intuition, the misery could have lasted much longer.

As another Mother's Day approaches, she is reminded of those days and the power of "mother's intuition." Aronson needs no convincing that this ability is real, but if she did, a nationally known doctor and psychiatrist backs her up. Dr. Judith Orloff not only believes in it, she has made it part of her medical practice. Read the rest of this article

If you could lay your hands on this suffering world and heal it, would you? If you could give information to comfort and guide the lost, wouldn't you? If you could save jobs by preparing your company for the future, would you?

I received a letter from a reader that began, "I struggle with my desire to have a 'glimpse' into what might happen in my life with my Christianity that teaches me psychics and looking into your future is against God's will." Read the rest of this article