We’ve all had that feeling—an instant knowing that something isn’t right. Whether in a business deal or when a friend hasn’t called in a while, somewhere deep inside us we have a knowing, and we can’t explain why. That is intuition, and it has been with us, buried deep in the limbic system for a very, very long time. So what is intuition, and where does it come from? Intuition is “a natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence: a feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why,” according to the Britannica dictionary. We’ve all experienced it, that moment of inclination, when something we have no reason to know seems quite plausible or even certain to us. Some people have described it as the result of previous knowledge and experience culminating in an instantaneous understanding, but …