Thoughts on intellectual intuition

What is the meaning of "awaken"? How is it felt? How is it accomplished? And else; how is to legitimately ask such questions while, independently of them, one has the feeling of being awakening? Maybe it would be right to raise another doubt, the most ululant of them: when it is that one reaches the maximum state of wakefulness? In whom is the answer? In the prophets? In the glorious saints? In death?

It's all a matter of intuition, since the feeling is in itself the cause of the question about the legimitacy of the feeling. In the end, it may be the case, and we have a lot of minds supporting this view*, that knowledge is all about intuition - that intuition that Aristotle tolds us we couldn't escape at last in our understanding of how we understand things, of what presupposes knowledge. Or: no matter the way we climb from empiria to universals and truth, the base upon which we build this path consists in an intimate knowledge that is born with us, with our intellect - and this may be the main reason why we have to say that we participate in the reason (logos, nous) of Universe.

We cannot "prove" deduction, nor "prove" the excluded middle, but it's this apparatus that ignites and frames knowledge. We cannot "prove" that two plus two equals four, we only can "show" it, based in the senses. But it's precisely this implicit schemata, attaching numbers to things in our sensuous world, that leads to our conceiving of knowledge as intuition, as deduction preceding intuition, or at least working simultaneously with it, everywhere, anywhere. It's the same topic as treated by Aristotle in his notion of active and passive intellect.

What could be behind this intuition, this "automacy" of thought? Aristotle borrows the idea of "nous" from his beloved Anaxagoras.

Would be the case that the natural way leads us to the "mind of God"? Or is it the intellect-reason of Nature of the pantheists (and most of atheists)?

In the end, it shows itself impossible the conception of a reality without a intelligence, therefore it shows itself equally and ironically unreasonable a materialistic universe.

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* This could be the way out of the Meno's paradox in Plato.