SENSORY KNOWING
"Go to
the trees," the old one told me, "Ask them where they find their strength.
And you will find your answer."
~
Sharron Johnstone, Cree Nation, Spirit Songs
Reconnect to the evolutionary instructions imbedded in your senses.
They will guide you to wellness and joy.
~ jcb '06
Your evolutionary senses are the bones of knowing; language and logic are the fresh that brings this knowing into the conscious mind to wisely support and guide you. Every time we go to Nature, it helps us to create more of who we really are.~ jcb '06
When we pick up a rock and admire it
instead of heaving it at something, we are closer to some ultimate truth.
When we hear a bird and stop
for the sheer pleasure of that sound, we are nearer to real life than we were before. When we acknowledge beauty,
we benefit from it most.
~ quoted in Swanson, 2000
EXPLORING SENSORY WISDOM:
53 Natural Senses and Sensitivities
These wings were made for more than mundane flight...j.cb '07
Feeling Senses
Chemical Senses
Mental Senses
AROUSING SENSES ACTIVITY
Purpose of the Activity:
To help you connect to the infinite wisdom of your 53 and more innate
senses.
The Activity:
Go to a natural area or even a living indoor
object, such as a houseplant or a cooperative pet, and ask its
permission to be there and help you with this activity. If, after a few
minutes, the area or object still feels welcoming to you, accept that
consent has been given.
Now, quiet your mind and begin to explore each of your inborn senses, taking time to consider what each sense might be saying about your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs.
Consider what each sense—Nature’s intelligent love for you—can contribute to enhancing wellness and joy in your life.
As you connect to each sense, let its non-verbal message—your sensory wisdom—flow through you. Remember, it evolved as part of your own Nature.
Trust your inborn senses...they have sentiently supported your survival since life first began. Think about times you were most connected to each sense; and ways to deeply connect to it again.
Keep in mind, as you explore and experience each one, that it is exploring the sense, not completing the list, that is important. Better to know a few senses well.
LIST of 53 SENSES
Radiation Sensitivities
1. Sense of light and sight (including polarized light)
2. Sense of seeing without eyes.
3. Sense of color
4. Sense of moods and identities attached to color
5. Sense of ones visibility or invisibility
6. Sensitivity to invisible radiation
7. Sense of temperature and temperature change
8. Sense of season
9. Electromagnetic sense and polarity,including the ability to generate
current as in brain waves
or other energies
Feeling Senses
10. Hearing - including resonance, vibration, sonar, ultrasonic
frequencies
11. Awareness of pressure
12. Sensitivity to gravity
13. Sense of excretion
14. Feel, particularly touch on the skin
15. Sense of weight and balance
16. Space or proximity sense
17. Coriolus sense (Earths rotation)
18. Sense of motion. Body movement sensations and sense of mobility
Chemical Senses
19. Smell with and beyond the nose
20. Taste with and beyond the nose
21. Appetite and hunger for food water and air
22. Food obtaining urges including hunting and killing
23. Humidity sense including thirst, evaporation control, acumen to
find water
24. Hormonal sense such as pheromones and other chemical stimuli
Mental Senses
25. Pain - external and external
26. Mental or spiritual distress
27. Sense of fear, dread of injury, death, or attack
28. Procreative urges - sex awareness, courting, love, mating, child
rearing
29. Sense of play, sport, humor, pleasure, laughter
30. Sense of physical place, navigation senses, position of
celestial bodies
31. Sense of time
32. Sense of electromagnetic fields
33. Sense of weather changes
34. Sense of emotional place, of community, belonging, support,
trust, and thankfulness
35. Sense of self, including friendship, companionship, and power
36. Domineering and territorial sense
37. Colonizing sense inc. receptive awareness of one's fellow
creatures
38. Horticultural sense and ability to cultivate.
39. Language and articulation sense, used to express feelings and
convey information
40. Sense of humility, appreciation, and ethics.
41. Senses of form and design
42. Reasoning, including memory, logic and science
43. Sense of mind and consciousness
44. Intuition or subconscious deduction
45. Aesthetic sense - creativity, appreciation of music and beauty
46. Psychic capacity
47. Sense of biological/astral time, awareness of
past-present-future events
48. The capacity to hypnotize other creatures.
49. Relaxation and sleep - dreaming, meditation, brain wave
awareness
50. Sense of pupation- cocoon building and metamorphosis
51. Sense of excessive stress and capitulation.
52. Sense of survival by joining a more established organism
53. Spiritual sense - conscience, sublime love, ecstasy, sin,
profound sorrow and sacrifice
From the work of Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life
and Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Reconnecting to Nature