Empathy verses Intuition

Recently while visiting friends I shared that I had been interviewed by a reporter from the Toronto Star on the subject of empathy deficit disorder. The reporter acknowledge that this is not officially a clinical diagnosis. I have a link on my web to an article written in O Magazine about this idea and the reporter told me that Barack Oboma first spoke of it in a speach he made in the mid-west. He said our world suffers from "emapthy deficit disorder."

I agree, absolutely. We have lost our gift of empathy with each other and with the world. If we had known how to empathize, 9/11 would never have happened. War would never happen. Violence would end. We would live in peace and joy and love/kindness.

We then began to share what we saw as the meaning of empathy and asked each other some questions: does everybody have the capacity to empathize? how do we lose the ability/gift if we once had it? how do we get it back? what purpose does it serve? More, but enough for now.