* Inspired by the Book “Autobiography of the Soul” – An Epic of the end of times (Authors: Valmeegi, Agasthyar / Gnanalayam Pondy)*
Each soul is all-powerful and can create or destroy all existence if [they] know how.
You and us and all others are interconnected by our mutual possession of all there is.
You may create alternative universes if you wish and dwell within.
You are all a duplicate of the universe within which you dwell.
Your mind represents all that exists. It is “fun” to see how much you can access.
I read this in a forum dedicated to channelings from another dimension👽. They call themselves the Cs- Cassiopaeans.
Human's have the sixth sense, which differentiates us from the rest of the animal kingdom.
What is this sixth sense - simply it is one more than the 5 senses - see, hear, smell, taste, touch.
It is not that simple.
Merriam Webster has this about the 6th sense -
Sixth sense definition is - a power of perception like but not one of the five senses : a keen intuitive power.
There is no one definition for Sixth sense - everywhere it is defined as different from the 5 senses* - "neti, neti" ; not this, not this. (root: na iti, na iti; also can be translated as neither this nor that). This principle is introduced and used in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.
The following was extracted from Avadhuta Gita 1.25
Sanskrit in Devanagari:
तत्त्वमस्यादिवाक्येन स्वात्मा हि प्रतिपादितः ।
नेति नेति श्रुतिर्ब्रूयाद अनृतं पाञ्चभौतिकम् ।। २५।।
IAST:
tattvamasyādivākyena svātmā hi pratipāditaḥ /
neti neti śrutirbrūyād anṛtaṁ pāñcabhautikam //25//
Meaning: By such sentences/vedic dictums (4 Mahavakyas) as "That thou art," our own Self, the Atman, is affirmed. The objects (including our body) composed of the five elements are held to be unreal- as the Srutis (specifically the Upanishads) say, नेति नेति "Not this, not this."
(Translation from Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya by Swami Chetananda & Wikisource)
I think it is our Consciousness itself - awareness that I am different and unique from other objects and beings that I can sense and process through my 5 senses. That something in me is independent of the 5 senses and aware of things & concepts more than the external senses can make sense.
It is much more than the gut feel, the spidey-sense, the reflex action.
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We use our senses to learn from the external environment, for survival, growth, pleasure, innovation.
All the 5 senses are focused outwards, like radars trained to pickup the external signals and threats. The nervous system and the brain process all the external signals - for decision making & consumption.
See words on a paper/a scenery - we read/see, process and store the relevant information in our brain.
See food on a plate - we eat, process and store the energy/nutrients in our cells.
All the 5 senses immerse our mind with the external world - colours, noise, music, flavours, smells, softness, roughness, heat, cold, desirable, undesirable, harmful, not harmful, survival, growth, consumption, birth, death, re-birth - dualities.
Coming back to tackling the 6th Sense, it is the source of life itself - calling out our attention, the fountain of our innovation and serendipity, the guidance system that we are not aware of. It is our SOUL - but again this is an inadequate description, for the Soul is much more than the 6th Sense.
Lets try this definition - The 6th Sense - a simple ability of the Soul that is perceived by our mind.
That which our senses cannot fathom, the 6th Sense perceives it - unseen, unheard so on.
Is this mind-body complex limited to the above only - birth-survive-grow-procreate-die. If yes, what is the greater purpose in all this, if at all there is one. Our ancestors have also had similar thoughts and their findings, debates, analysis can be found in the Upanishads.
Here is a quote from an Upanishad on defining Atman and its primal purpose -
That Atman (self, soul) is indeed Brahman. It [Ātman] is also identified with the intellect, the Manas (mind), and the vital breath, with the eyes and ears, with earth, water, air, and ākāśa (sky), with fire and with what is other than fire, with desire and the absence of desire, with anger and the absence of anger, with righteousness and unrighteousness, with everything — it is identified, as is well known, with this (what is perceived) and with that (what is inferred). As it [Ātman] does and acts, so it becomes: by doing good it becomes good, and by doing evil it becomes evil. It becomes virtuous through good acts, and vicious through evil acts. Others, however, say, "The self is identified with desire alone. What it desires, so it resolves; what it resolves, so is its deed; and what deed it does, so it reaps.
— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5
The Soul - what it desires, so it thinks, acts and accumulates- on & on in an seemingly infinite cycle of births and deaths.
We will travel with the Soul and try to make sense of its journey across eons, yugas, ages. The soul which is eternal and without death, but caught in the birth-death cycle!
Prajnanam Brahma (प्रज्ञानम् ब्रह्म) - "Consciousness is Brahman," or "Brahman is Consciousness"
* This article tries to explain in a limited way one of the aspect of the sixth sense..
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