[Robert]

We humans have five senses: vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Could we be missing senses and not even know we are missing them. Consider, a baby born blind. As a fully grown adult the baby would have learned to function in life without the need for vision. Would this blind person have any concept of what it means to have vision? Would this person be upset or depressed because vision is not present? Assume this person grew up in a environment where all people present were also blind. I would surmise that not any of the people in this environment would have any idea what vision is and certainly they would not miss vision or be depressed that they do not have this ability. How could they miss something they do not know they are missing. Their brains would have adjusted and found ways to cope without the need for vision. There is a whole new way of viewing the world that these people don't have a clue about.

Could we be like this group of blind people? Are we missing a sense--a way of viewing the world--that we don't even know we are missing? Why only five senses. We must have developed these five senses based on evolutionary and survival needs. We must not have been subjected to environments that would have perhaps triggered the development of additional senses. How can we discover what we don't know is missing? If I were a blind man in a world of blind people, how could I discover the meaning or concept of vision?

[Guille]

I can't assure that we are missing any senses, but I am 99.9% sure (with an error margin of + or - 00.1%).
In the tsunami, the animals started to run away from the villages near the coasts in Thailand, etc. They felt it, and we couldn't.
The proposition of the blind is good. Also, I always refer to humans as having 6 senses. The sixth sense is our mind. My definition of sense is:

"A sense is ability to feel or perceive the world"

And, let me give you a proof of the mind entering this definition: I can see a book in front of me; it is on top of the table. I can only (and only!) see three of its faces. I can't hear or smell the book. I can't touch it because it's too far. I can't taste it because it's too far. So, what I perceive of the book is the three sides I can see. But, as all of us know, a book (normally) has six sides (top, bottom, front, back, left, right). And, still I can't perceive three of these six faces; I know there are these three faces. I know it! How? It’s because I have another sense - my mind, which is thinking. My mind did its work: got to the "google" of my memory, wrote "book", and searched. The memory started to put the matches with the entered word in front of my consciousness. And my sub-consciousness was there to go covering the book matches: if 10 books passed, and they all had a front (let's say I can't see the front of the book in the table), then, the sub-consciousness matches it completely. And so and so, until all the general properties of books are matched by the sub-consciousness, then the consciousness is given the info by the sub-consciousness, and now I realize that it is a book-like object that is on the table-like object in the room-like place.

I know it's long, but it is worth it to read this.

So, I believe that if there is a sense that we still haven't realized that we have, then the probability that there is a sense that we don't have is much higher, and thus, there must be various senses that we don't have.

[david44]

Originally Posted by Robert We humans have five senses: vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Could we be missing senses and not even know we are missing them. Consider, a baby born blind. As a fully grown adult the baby would have learned to function in life without the need for vision. Would this blind person have any concept of what it means to have vision? Would this person be upset or depressed because vision is not present? Assume this person grew up in a environment where all people present were also blind. I would surmise that not any of the people in this environment would have any idea what vision is and certainly they would not miss vision or be depressed that they do not have this ability. How could they miss something they do not know they are missing. Their brains would have adjusted and found ways to cope without the need for vision. There is a whole new way of viewing the world that these people don't have a clue about. Could we be like this group of blind people? Are we missing a sense--a way of viewing the world--that we don't even know we are missing? Why only five senses. We must have developed these five senses based on evolutionary and survival needs. We must not have been subjected to environments that would have perhaps triggered the development of additional senses. How can we discover what we don't know is missing? If I were a blind man in a world of blind people, how could I discover the meaning or concept of vision?

Hi Robert,

For a few years I held seminars on the power of the mind. I would teach people how they can get in touch with a part of themselves they were not aware of. I would do my best to help everyone to understand that each of us have abilities that we just don't know about.

One part of this understanding is the fact that we don't just have five outer senses, we also have five inner senses. These inner senses are a part of each and every one of us and yet only a small number of people are able to nurture and improve them.
A perfect example of this is "deja vu". Have you ever heard the phone ringing and knew exactly who was calling you before you picked it up?

This is an ability we all have and yet most people call it coincidence. However, some people who nurture it and practice it can achieve some incredible results.

Another ability is projection. We can each project our minds consciousness to anywhere we want to. One seminar I was involved with was a 32 hour seminar and after 30 hours of practicing certain things we would get the people to do things they all thought was totally impossible beforehand and yet we had a 100% success rate.

I cannot go into details because of legal obligations; however, I will say there is a wealth of knowledge out there for those who look. The main problem is that most people don't look because it is out of the ordinary. And as soon as someone steps out of the ordinary, usually their family and friends start putting them back into their box. The box they are comfortable with, because that is the nature of the beast. Very few people have the courage to step outside of the box, because of a fear of rejection from their family and friends.

Cheers, David

http://theuniversalcodeofliving.com

[SinJin]

When people go blind, their other senses, especially hearing, increase dramatically. But when someone goes deaf, how come their eyesight doesn't increase? Is it because we don't rely as much on hearing as we do sight?

[Guille]

Originally Posted by SinJin When people go blind, their other senses, especially hearing, increase dramatically. But when someone goes deaf, how come their eyesight doesn't increase? Is it because we don't rely as much on hearing as we do sight?

YES!

We rely, in the 80% of the perceptions and observations we do, that is, the information that we obtain from the world, comes from the eye. It tells us color, size, shape....

Around a 15% is the hearing, and the left 5% is from the others.

[david44]

Originally Posted by SinJin When people go blind, their other senses, especially hearing, increase dramatically. But when someone goes deaf, how come their eyesight doesn't increase? Is it because we don't rely as much on hearing as we do sight?

I think we have to put it into the individual's choice again. Some people may say their eyesight improved and others may say it didn't. It all depends on a person’s perception. If they are not aware of the changes, does that mean the changes didn't happen?

One branch of an organization I was with used to help people with relaxation techniques and they would show me pictures of their students on the first day of class. Nearly all of the people who wore glasses in the photo, just 12 weeks later they no longer wore them. And yet when I would talk to some of them they would tell me their eyesight did not improve, they just don't wear glasses anymore.

In conversations I had with the instructors of those courses, they said to me that some people are just not aware of themselves enough to know about any changes, even though there have been dramatic changes in their life, because they focus their attention most of the time onto anything else but themselves.

And again it all comes down to practice. What we practice at we get better at it. If we don't practice we don't get better.

Cheers David.
http://theuniversalcodeofliving.com

[mkirkpatrick]

We are not missing any senses; we are mostly just unaware, or not sensitive enough to gain access to them. All of the (lower senses) are replicated and refined at a much higher frequency, these higher senses are within the etheric body, which encloses and encircles the physical body. Some who are more sensitive than others can see in more Depth, this sight will reveal the human aura, a kind of electromagnetic field which surrounds all life. Others can tune into the thoughts and patterns of idea formation, telepathy. Others have hearing that is refined and is referred to as clairaudient, there are others whose touch is most refined and they can pick up energy signatures from long and recent users of say a hairbrush, or walking stick. This is called clairsentinence. There are more but suffice to say that none are missing, it is that most of us are unaware of the senses we have on board!!

Kind regards, Michael.

[trombonetom]

Deja Vu is one, probably a higher frequency of the informal sense that GUILLE mentioned. The mind. I looked it up on the internet and found a site that said Deja Vu is usually rare, but some people get it a lot. I am sometimes afraid about the amount I get it. I get it very often and it is often very strong, I am completely sure that it has already happened.

Should I be worried about my supposedly over the fair share of Deja Vu.

[HappytheStripper]

Originally Posted by Robert How can we discover what we don't know is missing? If I were a blind man in a world of blind people, how could I discover the meaning or concept of vision?

" I see" said the blind man... after he banged into a lampost...

[chazzysaw]

Not only are we missing many of our senses but the senses we have are getting dull. There are many people with what we call gifts, are tone in on these extra senses we all should have. If the brain was to suddenly expose these senses to us we would go crazy. We could not handle it right now. The brain knows what it is doing, it eases us into new senses, gives us a chance to understand it and exsept it.I believe there are many many senses we have yet to tap onto.