The Subjective Experience of Medical Intuitive Practitioners

By Tracy Poff, PhD

Medical intuitives are known to use the sense of intuition to observe physiological and energy systems of the human body (Shealy, 2010). After years of consulting medical intuitives as a client, I was fascinated by their perceptual abilities. For example, over the telephone and without knowing my husband’s medical history, a medical intuitive correctly perceived the presence and exact location of internal swelling in his back (it was subsequently confirmed by an MRI). How did she do that? I wondered.

My curiosity led to a formal investigation of the subjective experience of medical intuitives (Poff, 2024). While a handful of studies have evaluated the accuracy of medical intuition (e.g., Colter & Mills, 2020; Wahbeh et el., 2026), the inner world of medical intuitives has rarely been examined. Therefore, I set about to understand what the inner experience of conducting a medical intuition reading is like, how the capacity for medical intuition affects the practitioner’s life, and the worldviews held by medical intuitives.

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