And I started asking other people think you'd ever had experiences like that where they knew something without knowing how they had known it. And everybody had a story, but they tended to poopoo it and say, oh, but that was just a fluke. Or that was just a coincidence, or that was just nothing. I began to realize that this is an incredible skill that everybody has, but that we don't develop, and we don't acknowledge and we don't pay attention to it. It then became my mission in life to learn how to teach people how to use the skill and apply it in ways that are very practical, non weird and non scary. I used intuition to quit smoking.
I had tried all kinds of different ways of quitting smoking and nothing really worked. And so I decided I would go inside and get get information from myself as to how I might go about this and work down a plan got a vision of what it would be like to be a nonsmoker How I could get there day by day. That was an important, an important accomplishment very much into corporate America. In fact, I was an operations research analyst working for standard all of Indiana and Chicago, when I had the insight and inspiration that this was not where I was supposed to be. So within the matter of just a few short weeks, I had made the decision to leave the corporate world, and it selected a school to go back to school to get my doctorate so that I could teach. And that was certainly a very important turning point in my life because it's led me to where I am right here today, in doing the work that I'm doing now, and as I dug further, all of a sudden in the lap of the second was diamonds, and jewels and gold beyond belief, and I bolted out of bed.
I thought this is a dream. I don't want to forget and I wrote it down. And what came through to me at that time this The more I dig into the wisdom of the ancients, the more my riches will be revealed to me. And that I would say was one of my more profound experiences. I've learned to trust dreams. Yeah, I used to be a Skeptical Science editor in New York City.
And when I discovered the intuitive dimensions, it completely changed my life. If I had to find out, does this stuff really work and if so harmful? And so for 30 years I've been researching and the question of how does it work and how can we learn to apply it more and then the process I learned to do it myself?