THE 17 SENSES, UNLOCKING YOUR SPECTRUM OF HIGHER PERCEPTION

Did you know you don't have five senses? You have 17!

Most people are aware of the five physical senses.

Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

And beyond that, seven spiritual (or psychic) senses.

• Clairvoyance, when you can see or know things that other people can't.

• Clairaudience, when you can hear things that other people can't.

• Clairsentience, when you can feel or sense things that other people can't.

• Claircognizance, when you just know something without being told or seeing it.

• Clairaliance, when you can smell things that other people can't.

• Clairgustance, when you can taste something without putting it in your mouth.

• Clairtangency, when you can clearly touch an object in your mind’s eye without physically touching it or a get a full sense of a location without physically being there.

When combined, these are often referred to as “the Clairs” and form part of what we call intuition.

And just like building strength at the gym doesn’t happen overnight, developing these subtle senses also requires time and perseverance. These are spiritual muscles that have atrophied due to manipulation of the true human genome, and it will take dedication to get them working fully again.

To open your Clairs, trust in the information you are receiving, let go of any self-doubt and allow the information you are receiving to flow through you without resistance. Give yourself permission to share what you are seeing, feeling, knowing with others. Even if you make mistakes, the more you trust in yourself, the more these senses will naturally open and reveal information to you.

"Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.” 

-Helen Keller

In addition to these spiritual “sixth” senses (or more like sixth, seventh, eighth, and so on…) we have five mental senses that are often overlooked.

These are…Imagination, memory, intuition, reason, and willpower. These involve internal perception and self-awareness and when used cognizantly, they can be powerful tools in opening up to higher dimensions and planes of existence.

#1: Imagination is the mental ability to form sensations, images, ideas, and concepts of things not present or never experienced, allowing us to solve problems, create new ideas, understand different perspectives, engage with the unknown and take the mind on boundless journeys of exploration. Imagination is the key to opening up your own consciousness!

#2: Memory is the brain's innate process of encoding, storing, and retrieval of information, allowing for learning, retention, and future action. Memory plays a big role in keeping us safe, but did you know you can also use your memories to heal? By consciously engaging with old childhood or looping memories, you can rewire your brain and build new synapses that transform how you process certain memories and emotions.

#3: Intuition, pure intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for any conscious reasoning. We often refer to intuition as a psychic ability but technically it is a rapid, subconscious process where the brain integrates experiences, subtle cues, and emotions to provide immediate understanding without conscious consideration. It is a somatic knowing, a gut feeling, an inner-standing. Due to the subconscious nature of intuition, it is something that is not bound by your own experiences, instead it is when you can access states of super consciousness and directly tap into the subconscious part of the Self which holds all memory and information of everything that was, is and will ever be. Intuition is often experienced through one or more of the Clairs discussed above.

#4: Reason is the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic. It can help keep us grounded and rooted, as well as keep us safe in many scenarios. While it has played a developmental role in human evolution, it has been, and still is, highly overused.  When reason isn’t kept in check it generates doubt, always questioning, analyzing, and trying to understand the world purely through logic. The more we question and analyze, the more we doubt. Eventually that doubt spreads to everything, including the very nature of existence, truth, and meaning. This deep doubt often leads to existential and spiritual crises, where nothing has purpose or meaning anymore, and can lead us towards a downwards spiral. Reason rarely gives final, absolute answers, it must be paired with our emotional body, our feelings and our intuition. Think about this: humans without feelings aren’t human at all, they are soulless robots. As a collective, we are now beginning to move away from reason, as we move away from fear and survival mode into heart-based unity consciousness and balanced co-creation.

#5: Willpower is the ability to bear force on to something, or to restrain from the impulse to do something. Ever heard the familiar expression, “where there is a will, there is a way”? Our wills have the power to carve out paths where none seemed to exist before. It is the inner drive that turns intention into action, thought and imagination into form. Through will, we harness energy, focus it, and direct it toward a chosen outcome. In its highest form, thought and imagination become an act of conscious creation through the exertion of our willpower - the capacity to align mind, heart, and action in service of what we truly value and love.

Together, these form the full spectrum of human perception and allow us to reach an evolved state of living that is in fluidity with the entire human design and multi-dimensional expression of Self and all of Reality.

If you've ever felt like there's more to life than what you see, it's because there is an inherent part of you that already knows this information.  Awakening the sleeping senses has the potential to unlock whole new levels of reality.

Tonight, maybe close your eyes and test one. Visualize holding a lemon. Smell it, taste it, feel it. What would it feel like to be a lemon, to embody its essence? Visualize turning your body into one. Simple as that! This is your mental and spiritual senses activating beyond the physical!

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