“Multisensory Perception— we are becoming a new human species. The five senses together are really only one sense. They are a single-sensory system and the object of detection that they detect, is physical reality. But there is much more to this world. As a species in the past, we’ve been limited to that. There have always been people who have not been limited to that; every one of our religions is named after one. But the difference is that now all of humankind is beginning to get a new perceptual capability. We have access to compassion and wisdom that is far greater than what we can provide to ourselves.” –Gary Zukav
Physics Example:
“The light spectrum that we can see with our eyes runs from red to violet. But we know that there is light, below red, so to speak. We call that infrared. We know that there’s light that’s higher than violet. We call that ultraviolet light. Beyond that is microwave and beyond that are all of the frequencies, including television frequencies. We don’t see it. But where are they? They’re here in this room with us now. We can only see a small bit of that infinite spectrum. All we can see is red to violet. That’s what we call the light spectrum. But any physicist can tell you that the spectrum of light goes way beyond red in one direction, and do you know how far? Infinitely. And it goes way beyond violet in the other direction, infinitely. And of this infinite spectrum, this is what we can see.
And with the five senses we are saying, this is reality and this is all there is.
As you become multisensory, what happens is, those intuitive feelings you have become as real as what you can see, smell, taste, touch, and hear. And what’s more, those intuitive feelings become more powerful than what your other five senses are telling you. You reach a place where you will follow your heart no matter what your head or five senses tell you.” –Gary Zukav
What an image of how little we can see! I felt a sense of great relief when I first heard about multisensory perception and I really love the way Gary describes it here. I think we all have intuitive feelings, but we “rationalize” and we get “realistic” and we abandon the most powerful guiding force we can muster. I think we’ve all gone against our gut feelings and paid a price at one point in time or another. One element of what I’m trying to do with my practice of yoga of meditation is cultivate a stronger intuition. I want to tap into that spiritual realm and really create an intuitive lighthouse to guide my way through life.
In the past I have a experienced a very strong knowing at certain times. It’s like words are spoken in your head, in your voice, but they didn’t come from you, if that makes sense? One story that’s very vivid happened just like this. I was working for a big company with many departments and I was hired there through a temp agency. I had been working in one department from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. for two months when I switched to another department with the hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. I was also taking three online classes at this time, which was crazy to do with a full time job. I was really struggling to get up and make it to work on time with the change in hours and change in hours of when I could do school work. One morning I slept through my alarm for two hours, I was so exhausted. Another morning I was ten minutes late. I was almost late and just barely made it a handful of times. And then there I was, on my way to work, running just late enough that I was most likely going to be ten minutes late to work again. I was praying, praying, praying to make it when a Pat Parelli speech from a 2008 seminar popped into my head (this was the part that felt more like a voice speaking to me than a memory)… “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. You have to make a transformation…” and I said out loud in my vehicle, “Oh God, I get it, I get it, I have to change how I do everything in order to get enough sleep and get up on time for work, I get it!” I felt a sense of recognition and peace flood through me and as I got into town and then the craziest thing happened. It had never happened before and it has never happened since. I hit all green lights, all the way to my parking lot. Fourteen green lights in a row. I actually made it to work five minutes early that day and flopped down at my desk in total disbelief. That may not seem like a very profound story to you, but it certainly was to me, and I was never late again!
There was one other occasion in which I was searching for an art center, finally found it after many wrong turns, finally found the parking lot after much fruitless searching, pulled into the parking lot, and saw two guys about 100 yards away standing against a building. Something about the situation made the hair stand up on the back of my neck and every fiber of being was telling me to back out and just leave. I decided I was not going to override a feeling that strong and try to rationalize the fact that I didn’t know the guys and it was in the middle of the day, so it was probably nothing. No, I sat motionless in the parking lot for a few seconds, and then quickly took heed of the biological warning signs to leave the area. I’ve heard a lot of stories about women ignoring those warning signals and ending up getting raped or beaten or experiencing some other terrible act of violence, all because they wanted to be nice. Forget that!! Better safe than sorry! When I feel a strong sense that danger is lurking, I cheese it out of there!
What I am working every day to build, however, is an extremely powerful intuitive sense of knowing where to go, what to do, what to say, and to who. Meditation seems to be the most powerful tool in tapping into multisensory capabilities. I really want to learn Transcendental Meditation, so that’s going to be a new entry for the vision board. Speaking of meditation, I think I’ll meditate before I tackle today’s algebra assignment. It’s the last class I have to finish in order to finally graduate with my Associate of Arts degree. I’m excited to be done with it and see what happens in the next two months. If you’ve been reading my blog, you know I’ve been pining for Pagosa Springs, Colorado and the opportunity to work for Parelli Natural Horsemanship. Well, I am an ambassador for an upcoming Parelli Horse and Soul tour stop (which means I’m doing marketing for it) and I’m a volunteer at that stop as well. I also met a woman at my church, in a chance encounter (it’s a BIG church), and discovered that she has a sister who is hardcore into Parelli (like I am) and I’m going to meet her soon. Even more interesting, my beloved life partner has been searching for a municipal job (he’s a powerlineman for a contractor) so he can be home every night and quit travelling. Oddly enough, by “accident”, I happened upon an opening in Pagosa Springs. What are the odds? So the application goes in today and we’ll see what happens. Who knows, a month from now I could be writing this blog from Pagosa Springs! Wouldn’t that be something?
What are your thoughts on multisensory perception? I love to hear what other people think!