Investigative reporter and former editor at Reader's Digest, Randall Fitzgerald, has spent several decades documenting intuitive luck techniques and interviewing scientists at the forefront of intuition research. In the first half, he discussed ways to use intuitive luck in the new year to navigate life's risks and attract financial rewards. He outlined several intuitive luck principles-- one is being able to feel or detect intuition as it arises. Men, he noted, tend to feel intuitions in the gut, while women feel them in the heart. It's helpful to set an intent to become aware of your intuitive ability, he said, adding that one technique to heighten intuition is to "implant your mind" by slowing it down and putting space between your thoughts. For some people, this could be meditation; for others, it's through affirmations or mantras.
Fitzgerald talked about his study of beginner's luck and how we can recreate the sensation when we try something new and become very good at it intuitively. It all begins with recognizing our own intuitive channel, he remarked, "and much like a radio station, we turn the dial in order to actually get the best reception." He recalled his conversations with a California highway patrolman named Frederick, who used his intuition on the job whenever he stopped a vehicle in order to sense the intention of the driver. "And as a result, he was able to use intuition to get himself out of a lot of very prickly situations on the job." Firefighters and soldiers also report a heightened sense of intuition when they are in dangerous situations, he added.
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Since 2007 Sam Maranto has been the State Director for Illinois MUFON and a certified UFO field investigator for over 20 years. In the latter half, he spoke about some of the most memorable cases he's investigated and trends in sightings, as well as the recent bout of congressional UAP hearings. Maranto contemplated why congressional attention is so focused on UFOs at this time and suggested that it may be related to certain technologies being revealed after being kept from the public for years. Patents could be involved, and the US may seek to come forward with the technology before other countries beat them to it, he continued. We could also be at a kind of "event horizon," where the government knows something is about to take place, or alternatively, they're going to instigate something themselves, he mused.
Maranto said he was pleased about proposed legislation that will allow civilian pilots to report UFO sightings to the FAA. He noted that he worked with NARCAP around the famous 2006 UFO sighting at O'Hare airport. The unknown object was below the ceiling of cloud cover near Gate C17 and suddenly shot through the clouds, leaving a punch hole in the sky. The Tinley Park lights mass sighting of 2004 was another case that he said stands out for him. He also touched on the Phoenix Lights, the alien abduction phenomenon, and how the UFO question highlights the mystery of our own humanness.