Information Battle of the Senses

extrasensory perception — the apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses

When I started my own intuitive journey, the takeaway that I found most helpful was to "get out of my head" and not attempt to imagine the target but just allow the image to appear somewhere in the space behind my eyes. I considered the act to be similar to my morning meditation where I release the thoughts to leave my attention where I'm unaware of my senses and surroundings.

Surprisingly, the less I struggled with my thoughts, the easier the images appeared. It's available almost instantaneously. I wondered why the information seemed so close at hand. Like eyes absorbing light, are we housing a sensory organ absorbing infinite information? If so, why does it benefit us to dull our other senses to access it? Are our physical senses hiding something from us?

Many famous prophets' methods utilized practices that lessened the input of their physical sensory organs when retrieving information. Sometimes naturally, like Edgar Cayce…

"Edgar Cayce would put himself in a trance-like state by lying down on a couch, closing his eyes, and folding his hands over his stomach. In this state, he was able to place his mind in contact with all time and space—the universal consciousness, also known as the super-conscious mind."¹

And sometimes the sensory suppression happened artificially, like the Oracle of Delphi who many theorized lost her senses during prophecy because she was inhaling noxious vapors from the Delphi Fault…

"When the Pythia (the Oracle of Delphi) inhaled the vapors, she entered into a trance-like state… It was during the trance-like state induced by the vapors, that the god Apollo communicated with her."²

An extrasensory perceptive state or being trance-like is the perception falling outside of the ordinary physical senses and many activities can induce out-of-the-physical-perception trance-like states including, but not limited to, drumming, dancing, meditation, hypnosis, chanting and even drugs. That's a lot.

I suspect the reason we have so many options to leave our senses coupled with actual benefits to do so means we have more to learn about the world inside of us than the world we are physically experiencing. Enlightenment, connection and understanding could lie just beyond the senses we've come to rely on as we remember how to listen to the words that make no sound to hear and the images that require no light to SEE.

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Footnotes

1. "WHO WAS EDGAR CAYCE?" EDGAR CAYCE'S A.R.E. at https://edgarcayce.org ↩

2. "The Oracle of Delphi: The Ancient Greek Fortuneteller" by Rachel Locket, HistoryCooperative.org HistoryCooperative.org ↩