Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Was just reading Cecil's Perception of Perception thread in Sunday Stream and got to thinking.

I've been thinking a bit lately about this.

Lately I've heard mention of, or at least allusion to, the fact that our five senses -- see, hear, taste, touch, smell -- might only be the tip of the iceberg as far as the reaches of our sensory perception go.

I wonder what the other senses might be. Can you describe (one or more of) them? Can you even fathom what they might be?

hmmm, Extra Sensory Percetion.

Well, I guess we could think of psychic abilities etcetera.

But I'm also thinking "as above so below".

So maybe we should consider that which we can see without the use of our eyes, that which we can hear without our ears, smell without our nose etc.

Was just reading a book called The Power of Music: Harness the creative energy of music to heal the body, soothe the mind, and feed the soul.

It notes that deaf people can benefit from music by the way the vibrations of different frequencies affect the different parts of the body. That seems somehow pertinent.

So what do you think?

The Philospher's Stone
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087477 ... 5&v=glance

Not the Harry Potter novel. Published about thirty years ago. Got me interested in Husserl and Phenomenology. We settle our accounts with reality when we become adults. What is possible in a child's mind? What senses do children have that we have lost?

Rat Bag, I started that book.

Also, I learned how to sense my own energy with tai-chi. In this case I'd call it a sixth sense, brcause you don't percieve it the way you do with other senses.

RatBag - Your words, "...maybe we should consider that which we can see without the use of our eyes, that which we can hear without our ears, smell without our nose etc.," are definitely worth considering.

ESP and intuition are two that indeed are 'sensed', but since there is no definite bodily part, i.e., a nose or eye, a finger tip or ear, not a tongue to taste, these two senses don't have the credibility of our other five senses. Yet these two (for conversations sake) are important to our bodily survival - we intuit danger, we 'feel' with what we call 'extra-sensory perception' (if we are tuned in) either things that have happened or will happen... things that we cannot necessarily convince others of, but we just know will happen or have happened.

I've heard of stories of the Aborigines when someone from their own community has died, even one that is far from the incident, will go back 'knowing' that particular person has died. It's not because they are Aborigines, but they are intune with their people, their traditions and roots. There is a commonality of sense perceptions that does not have boundaries or limitations of physical distance.

Another, which may be argued of course, is when the tsunami struck the Indian Ocean, it was the elephants and birds, the animals that were not domesticated and confined that left the areas that were soon awash with the waves. One may say this was because those animals have a sharper sense of hearing and responded to what they heard. But there is a possibility that these animals responded to their own level of intuition. (I doubt is many would research this so-called phenomenon, but I put it out there for contemplation).

Two small examples to jar the door of possibility open, perhaps, but all of us could or can recall little moments of our own ESP or intuition working to our advantage (read 'safety'). And many of us recognize these times but hesitatingly speak of them. These incidents may provoke questionable responses from others that we find uncomfortable.

Good thread, RB... and thank you for the 'hit' on the Stream.

Cecil

Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung postulated that "racial memory", i.e. memories "hindbrain deep" which were contained in every human mind, conditioned our perceptions.

He mined archives of folk tales, mythology and religious ritual in world culture to support his views of this commonality, which, he said, was a conditioning of perception so strong and eager that nothing could be perceived without the intervention of these "archetypes."

It could be argued, then, that Jung's take on "racial memory" is another perceptual force.


--Z