145- The Existence of Senses is Natural
Humankind has always had these senses without any exceptions. All senses, whether explained here or discovered later, have existed in all eras. They will be in humans in the future, except when a human is born with deficiency and is called disabled.” .
These senses are functioning according to their designated responsibility. However, humankind sometimes disregards the manifestations of a particular sense and considers them as accidents. For instance, we have witnessed numerous times when someone unjustifiably becomes sad, depressed, and extremely worried, only to find out later that something horrific had happened.
Because they do not pay any attention, they do not connect the dots between that feeling of sorrow and the incident and fail to recognize this notion. Hence, one may overlook this notion without contemplation and understanding, even though similar incidents like that may have happened many times in one's life.
In such instances, people usually fail to believe that the incident was the functioning and the manifestation of a particular sense that is independent and active like other known senses.
Like a sheep that automatically rejects bitter grass, it does not understand that this awareness is due to gustation and its characteristics.
This lack of awareness is not exclusive to senses like clairvoyance, but it may also be towards the other more commonly known senses.
For example, a speaker is giving a speech at the podium, and some people are listening. When the convention is over, all have benefitted from the speech. However, one person had not paid any attention to the speech and was busy thinking about something else. If people ask him about the subject of the speech, of course, he will have no idea, even though he has the tools for the auditory sense, and it is entirely healthy with no defect. However, since he did not pay proper attention to the speech, his auditory sense prevented him from comprehending it.
Here we cannot say that this person lacks the auditory sense. However, we can say that he had a good and healthy auditory sense, and it was ready to function, but his hearing tools did not comprehend the speech because he was not paying any attention to it. All the people in the convention understood the speaker except this person (similarly a student who cannot correctly benefit from his teacher's lectures).
This notion correlates to the sense of clairvoyance as well. Because a person does not pay any attention, even though his clairvoyance tool and organ are healthy and sound, the person cannot concentrate on its effects and indications and will regard any manifestations of this sense as accidents.
However, once humankind gained concentration on such senses, they will eventually have proper attention towards their displays and characteristics and realize that there are other senses besides the ones identified already, each having specific principles and operations.
In this manner, once one has gained proper attention, that individual differentiates between the senses of clairvoyance and inspiration; each is separate. Like the eyesight and auditory sense, have specific subjects, principles, and actions.
These notions given here are for the awareness of the people of the world.
A friend told me that about forty years ago, exercising was not common amongst ordinary people, in schoolyards or army bases. A lieutenant in the police force was a guest at our house. He was a young, tall, strong, and handsome individual with an athletic body. Every morning, he used to do some Swedish exercise after waking up.
Since the people in our house had never seen such movements, they thought he had gone mad, and all his strange movements are due to craziness.
They felt pity for him. Why should such a handsome and accomplished young man be crazy like this, they thought. When he was making these strange movements, they cheered with pity for him. However, they gathered all neighbors to watch this lieutenant, whom they thought was crazy, from behind the doors with curious eyes when he was exercising in the morning.
Elmer E. Knowles, one of the most renowned American hypnotists, had repeatedly driven a carriage blindfolded through the town's crowded streets in the presence of many city officials and people, and successfully reached the destination without any accidents.
While he was driving the carriage, all his actions were carefully observed by the city's reliable individuals present in the carriage. Most of the newspapers of the time in America reported and testified about this phenomenon and its genuineness.
In later years, he also successfully found a key that was hidden in the city.
These actions are, in fact, the sense of clairvoyance. Maybe Mr. Knowles was unaware of such sense but obtained these extraordinary exhibitions with proper training of his sense of clairvoyance.
He was reading the minds of those who were sitting in the carriage and employed them to navigate.
Joseph Sinel authored a book entitled "The Sixth Sense." In this book, he described the senses of clairvoyance and inspiration.
Yoshida Kenkō, Japanese author and Buddhist monk who lived in the 14th century, wrote in a book entitled “Tsure Dsure Graza”: I often ask myself whether I am the only person who feels like this: I hear voices that I have heard before and see things that I have seen before.
When? I do not know.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the English poet, further develops this notion in exquisite poets: a swallow that made a nest and saw as if it had seen this exact scenery before.
Lafcadio mentions the same notion as the previous life.
Modern scientists call it the false memory.
What do you think about this? You, too, have certainly had such sensations before.
There is this story in one of our famous books that goes: once upon a time, there was a son of a king who was studying under the supervision of a teacher. The minister’s son was also studying alongside him. While the minister’s son was making progress every day, the king’s son remained developmentally disabled.
The king became very upset with this situation and thought the teacher is neglecting his son's education.
So, he called for the teacher at once and gave him a fair warning. The teacher requested that the king to witnesses the situation himself.
In the next session, the king, at the teacher's request, hid behind a veil. Before the session started, the teacher had put a brick under the seat of the king's son and a paper under the minister's son.
The king's son did not notice the brick under him when he sat on his seat, while the minister's son felt uncomfortable. He repeatedly moved in his seat until he finally said: my seat's condition is different today.
The teacher told the king: do you see that it is not my fault? The minister's son is so aware and focused that he felt the difference created by a piece of paper, while your son did not notice a brick.
The king accepted his explanation.
This story demonstrates the sense of clairvoyance, its development, and its deficiency.