Physical Senses Beyond the Five We Ordinarily Recognise

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Sight, sound, smell, taste, and
touch.

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We all recognize the input we
receive from the five physical

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senses.
These perceptions form the basis

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for much of our interpretation
of our reality and our decision

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processes.
Most people never consider that

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there are other senses possible
or available to us.

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We do recognize that there are
other senses in various animal

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species, such as the sonar or
echolocation scents used by

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dolphins, homing scents
available to many species, not

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just homing pigeons, et cetera.
However, if we reflect for a

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moment, we may recognize that on
various occasions we have

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ourselves received input from
senses other than the five we

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ordinarily recognize.
Some people remark that they

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have an innate sense of
direction and can always somehow

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align themselves in the world.
Others note that they have the

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ability to judge the weight of
something by holding it in their

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hand.
Others sense the vital body or

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aura of other individuals.
Some can feel changes in the

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energetic action of the moon,
which is known to impact tides

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of the ocean as well.
People can many times sense when

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someone is observing them
without directly seeing it

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occurring.
Others report a feeling of

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unease in certain locations
where danger may be approaching

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them.
Some people report a connection

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to another individual far away
who may be thinking about them,

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or, as in the case of some
documented cases out of the

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First World War when a close
relation was injured and dying

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on the battlefield.
Still others report a sense of a

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different atmosphere in one
locale or another that may

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register subtle physical
characteristics, differences in

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weight of the atmosphere, et
cetera.

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All of these are signs of
additional senses that provide

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us input without our overtly
recognizing where and how that

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input is reaching us.
There is of course also an

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entire range of powers that
include telepathic

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communication, remote viewing,
etcetera.

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Many of these are clearly
represent physical senses, while

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others may belong more properly
to the vital aspect of our being

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or direct powers of mind, not
specifically based in the five

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physical senses of perception.
A disciple asks.

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You said that our body can
become receptive to forces which

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are concentrated in certain
places or in certain countries.

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But can we have this physical
sensation without a preliminary

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preparation of the
consciousness?

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Or is it truly a spontaneous
sensation like heat, cold or

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goose flesh, for example?
The mother responds, quote, if

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it were the result of a thought
or a will, it would not be an

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experience and it would have no
value.

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You understand?
I affirm absolutely that any

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experience that is the result of
a thought or preconceived will

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has no value from the spiritual
point of view.

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End Quote.
But were you not in a state, so

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to say, favorable to this
sensation?

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The mothers replies quote, there
are people who live constantly

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in a higher consciousness while
others have to make an effort to

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enter there.
But here it is an altogether

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different thing.
In the experience I was speaking

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about in the preceding talk,
Mother had described how on her

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return from Japan, she had all
of a sudden physically felt the

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atmosphere of Sri Aurobindo at a
distance of two nautical miles

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from Pondicherry.
What gave it all its value was

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that I was not expecting it at
all, not at all.

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I knew very well I had been for
a very long time, and

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continuously in spiritual
contact, if I may say so, with

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the atmosphere of Shriorobindo,
but I had never thought of the

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possibility of a modification in
the physical air, and I was not

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expecting it in the least.
And it was this that gave the

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whole value to the experience
which came like that quite

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suddenly, just as when one
enters a place with another

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temperature or another altitude.
I do not know if you have

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noticed that the air you breathe
is not always the same, that

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there are different vibrations
in the air of 1 country and in

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the air of another, in the air
of one place and in the air of

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another.
If indeed you are accustomed to

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have this perception of the
subtle physical, you can say

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immediately, ah, the air is as
in France, or this is the air of

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Japan.
It is something indefinable,

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like taste or smell.
But in this instance it is not

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that.
It is a perception of another

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sense, it is a physical sense.
It is not a vital or mental

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sense.
It is a sense of the physical

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world, but there are other
senses than the five that we

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usually have at our disposal.
There are many others.

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In fact, for the physical being,
note that I say the physical

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being to be fully developed, it
must have 12 senses.

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It is one of these senses which
gives you the kind of perception

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I was Speaking of.
You cannot say that it is taste,

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smell, hearing, etcetera, but it
is something which gives you a

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very precise impression of the
difference of quality, and it is

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very precise, as distinct as
seeing black and white.

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It is truly a sense perception.
End Quote Reference Sri

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Aurobindo and the Mother, The
Hidden Forces of life, Chapter

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3.
Hidden Forces around pages 62 to

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64.