Not really. Some are colour blind. Some probably see colours more intensely. Some have perfect pitch when it comes to music. Some have a good 'nose' for analysing scents or a good palate for wine tasting. A cat or a horse have extra senses, or sharpened senses, compared to a human being. A good fighter senses the opponent's move. Why does it have to stop with the five human senses of sight, hearing, and so on? Why can't some folks have more subtle perceptions?
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Furthermore, if the five human senses are the limit of human perception, it means that all our scientific instruments, and telescopes and so on, are in fact really just ingenious extensions of our human senses -- into the infra red and ultra violet and into ranges of sound the human ear cannot detect and so on. It means we can't even conceive of what other energies may lie beyond our human animal limited sense perception?
It doesn't mean there can't be people who do sense more?
It doesn't mean there can't be people who do sense more?
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I think it is some with innate abilities and others thru intense practice...be it in a conventional athletic, scholarly, music, art, etc.or mindfulness, prayer, meditation...people have talents they concentrate on and develop....like an angry old get of my lawn man or a Dalai lama type.
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Yeah, some have better imagination like writers of fiction and scriptures. Frauds have a better understanding of the psychology of the gullible.
Other than ancient superstitions, what more people have sensed? What evidence is there for 'other energies'?
There have millions of people who have claimed to be representatives of any God or Goddess without providing any evidence, not only those few who started the religions which now have large following.
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I was at work when my brother was dying. I wasn't functioning properly. I was making mistakes and couldn't do the routine jobs that were easy for me.
I was so out-of-whack I had to leave and gp home because I was just wasting materials.Only afterwards did I learn my brother was dying at that time, thousands of miles away.
Somehow I knew. So sad
Materialists will find explanations, but I know what was happening.
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Humans do have more than five senses, we've know this for a long time.
For example we have all the pieces in place to sense magnetic fields, and they do affect brain waves, but not at a level we're conscious of.
Incidentally the mechanism for the above involves quantum entanglement, we're only beginning to discover some of the ways life has found to exploit this.
For example we have all the pieces in place to sense magnetic fields, and they do affect brain waves, but not at a level we're conscious of.
Incidentally the mechanism for the above involves quantum entanglement, we're only beginning to discover some of the ways life has found to exploit this.
I am with you on this one RJM. As a rule, I enjoy discussing religion, politics, ideas and such, but however far I lean towards a particular point of view, I frequently see some holes in the argument. As a result, I use the phrase "I think" a great deal in such cases.
With a certain type of experience, and they come in a wide variety, people often say "I know" as RJM has done here. When you have been there, that knowing is as fundamental as gravity, you know it, plain and simple.
For those who have not "been there" There is nothing really to say. It would be like discussing great painters with a person blind from birth.