Even though the ego-tree gradually dominates local experience, the connection to the more holistic structures of KNOWING never ceases. Beneath identities, roles and local stabilisations the fundamental relational connection to the whole still exists — and the recognition mechanism reaches further than the ego-tree can explain.

This is the mechanical basis of intuition. Intuition is local recognition of higher available attractors — understandings that already exist in KNOWING and with which the recognition mechanism registers resonance, without the ego-tree’s explicit interpretive structures yet being able to account for them. It is not something that enters from outside. It is something that is already there, and which recognition reaches when the local attractors are not temporarily dominating completely.

When the dominance of local attractors weakens, more global patterns can emerge in experience. This forms the basis for intuition, insight, creativity, flow, love and experiences in which the individual feels contact with something that transcends the local world of representation. Meditation, stillness and concentration can contribute to such a weakening of the most dominant local structures.

Such experiences are often felt as though something is drawing the individual towards a deeper or more authentic understanding. Throughout history this has been described in various languages: conscience, inspiration, the impulse towards truth, higher consciousness, the Holy Spirit or contact with one’s authentic self. In the EC/HE theory this is relational resonance with more global structures in KNOWING — recognition of attractors that lie higher in the emergence tree than the ego-tree’s daily radius of operation.

A dissociated individual will normally prioritise local attractors because these have the greatest immediate attractor strength. Fear, identity, needs, roles and self-maintenance dominate experience. But more holistic relational patterns will continuously influence the ego-tree and attempt to reorganise experience towards greater integration — through dreams, through art, through encounters that touch something deep, through crises that weaken the grip of local structures.

The weaker the binding to the local ego-tree becomes, the more clearly holistic patterns can emerge. Traumas, transformative experiences and other events that destabilise established identity structures can therefore open for a stronger orientation towards KNOWING — not because the pain is valuable in itself, but because it weakens attractor structures that were blocking the recognition of what was already there.

This is the background for many people’s experience of awakening, deep love, meaning, inner calling and longing for something more real than the local world of representation alone.

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