Senses

Senses

Q: The other day I was trying to explain to someone about the five senses we learn to use with Silva, but I could only recall three of them: clairaudient, clairsensient, and clairvoyant. Can you tell me what the other two are?

A: Back in the old days (before Jose Silva's research) people who taught and wrote about metaphysics tried to explain - as best they could - what they experienced.

They said that in the subjective dimension we have the equivalent of our five physical senses:

*sight (clairvoyance -- or clear vision)

*sound (clairaudience -- clear audio)

*touch (clairsensient -- clear senses)

*smell

*taste.

As far as we know, they never gave names to the last two.

However, to help you understand better, this model that they used is not really accurate.

Here's why:

Subjective is not physical

The physical dimension is physical, and we have physical senses in order to experience the physical dimension.

The subjective dimension is not physical - it is subjective , and we have subjective (non-physical) senses to experience the subjective dimension.

Eyesight would not do us any good in the subjective dimension, because there is nothing to "see." There is information there, but it is information that cannot be detected by our physical senses.

Information in the subjective dimension can be detected by our subjective senses.

subjective senses

What are our subjective senses?

Well, you really cannot describe them - because they are not physical. Any description of what something looks like or feels like, etc., requires that the thing being described be physical.

Information is available in the subjective dimension, as we know. And we have some kind of senses that enable us to detect this information. Jose Silva refers to these "subjective senses" as the "mind."

Now, that's a completely different definition of "mind" from what you will find in the dictionary, or what a psychologist will tell you about the mind. But Mr. Silva needed a word to identify the subjective senses, so he choose the word "mind."

How many "subjective senses" are there? Are there five, as in the physical dimension? Nobody knows at this time.

Mental functioning

Now, here is what happens when we function in the subjective dimension:

We detect information with our subjective senses, but this information is useless to us in the physical dimension, where we are accustomed to using the physical senses. So we have to convert the information into a form that we are accustomed to using.

*People who convert the subjective (non-physical) information into a form so that they know what it looks like are said to be clairvoyant.

*Those who convert the subjective information so that they know what it feels like are said to be functioning clairsensiently.

*The information can also be converted into a form so you can know what it sounds like, smells like, and even tastes like.

Developing new senses

You began the process of learning how to do this in Jose Silva's UltraMind ESP System.

Remember how you projected into your living room south wall (and then metals and leaves) and were instructed to detect the amount of light (visual), the temperature (touch), odor (smell), and solidity of material by reflected sound - knocking on the material (touch and sound). That covers everything but taste, which is closely related to smell.

Some people get more of a sense of how it feels, while others get a strong visual sense. Some find odor to be the strongest sensation, while others are impressed with the different sounds produced by the different items.

For some people, this "conversion" of the subjective information into a physical equivalent happens so quickly and automatically that they think is really coming that way. But other people are often very aware of the fact that they somehow have a sense of "knowing" the information, and quickly convert the subjective information into one or more of the physical equivalents.

There is still a lot of confusion, because many people are so completely grounded in the old metaphysics. If you will practice the way your Instructor taught you, and review your course manual from time to time, you can achieve great success.

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