The Ten or More Senses
Edit: The discussion here is sufficiently interesting that I created a community for it. Let's see if metasensorium garners any interest. I feel an essay coming on, but to do it well, I'd need to review the psychology of perception, which I last studied in the early 1970's.
In a recent comment, lady_babalon asked me to elaborate on my reference to having ten senses that I know of, or have developed to any extent. Here they are:
1. Vision (eyes)
2. Hearing (ears)
3. Smell (nose)
4. Taste (tongue)
5. Touch (skin)
6. Thought (brain) [This is the sixth sense in Buddhist psychology, too. It is very useful to think of it as on the same level as the senses, rather than exalting it.]
7. Clairvoyance (third eye)
8. Clairaudience (just above the ears, or in my case, mostly the left one)
9. Intuitive knowing (crown)
10. Emotional knowing (gut)
Numbers 7 and 8 are not all that strong for me, but 9 and 10 work pretty well. The jury is still out on number 6 ;-)
However, it makes sense to me to add:
11. Divine knowing (spine, especially back of the neck, and the left side of my head)
I know my ilu is present by a rather distinct and highly pleasurable feeling in my spine, and my ishtaru often, but not always, appears on my left side and "beams" at me. What I get from them feels quite different from number 9.
Number 10 is a little frustrating because it is a one-bit channel (Alarm ON or OFF). If I want more information, I have to fish the other senses or do a divination.
These may vary among individuals, I am sure, especially the references to areas of the body.
If you want to put on your skeptical propeller beanie and explain away 7 - 11, be aware that I can do this as well as you can. These are broken out this way specifically for my personal development. I don't think you can develop psychic senses by starting with the assumption that they don't exist, unless you are much more fluent at very abstract thought and living with contradictions than I am. Nor has the similarity between these things and the symptoms of certain forms of "mental illness" escaped my notice.
Other comments are, of course, welcome. Skeptical ones are, too, but I'll ignore any to the extent that they ignore the above paragraph.
In a recent comment, lady_babalon asked me to elaborate on my reference to having ten senses that I know of, or have developed to any extent. Here they are:
1. Vision (eyes)
2. Hearing (ears)
3. Smell (nose)
4. Taste (tongue)
5. Touch (skin)
6. Thought (brain) [This is the sixth sense in Buddhist psychology, too. It is very useful to think of it as on the same level as the senses, rather than exalting it.]
7. Clairvoyance (third eye)
8. Clairaudience (just above the ears, or in my case, mostly the left one)
9. Intuitive knowing (crown)
10. Emotional knowing (gut)
Numbers 7 and 8 are not all that strong for me, but 9 and 10 work pretty well. The jury is still out on number 6 ;-)
However, it makes sense to me to add:
11. Divine knowing (spine, especially back of the neck, and the left side of my head)
I know my ilu is present by a rather distinct and highly pleasurable feeling in my spine, and my ishtaru often, but not always, appears on my left side and "beams" at me. What I get from them feels quite different from number 9.
Number 10 is a little frustrating because it is a one-bit channel (Alarm ON or OFF). If I want more information, I have to fish the other senses or do a divination.
These may vary among individuals, I am sure, especially the references to areas of the body.
If you want to put on your skeptical propeller beanie and explain away 7 - 11, be aware that I can do this as well as you can. These are broken out this way specifically for my personal development. I don't think you can develop psychic senses by starting with the assumption that they don't exist, unless you are much more fluent at very abstract thought and living with contradictions than I am. Nor has the similarity between these things and the symptoms of certain forms of "mental illness" escaped my notice.
Other comments are, of course, welcome. Skeptical ones are, too, but I'll ignore any to the extent that they ignore the above paragraph.