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To Experience Even More About How The World Works, Examine the Mental Natural Senses

Dive In A Lake For Deep Reflections And Surface With a Splash of Mental Clarity

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Don Pierce
Jun 12, 2024
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The following faculties are included in the Mental Natural Senses category:

  • Pain, external and internal.

  • Mental or spiritual distress.

  • Sense of fear, dread of injury, death or attack.

  • Procreative urges including sex awareness, courting, love, mating, paternity and raising young.

  • Sense of play, sport, humor, pleasure, and laughter.

  • Sense of physical place, navigation senses including detailed awareness of land and seascapes, of the positions of the sun, moon, and stars.

  • Sense of time.

  • Sense of electromagnetic fields.

  • Sense of weather changes.

  • Sense of emotional place, of community, belonging, support, trust, and thankfulness.

  • Sense of self including friendship, companionship, and power.

  • Domineering and territorial sense.

  • Colonizing sense including compassion and receptive awareness of one's fellow creatures, sometimes to the degree of being absorbed into a superorganism.

  • Horticultural sense and the ability to cultivate crops, as is done by ants that grow fungus, by fungus who farm algae, or birds that leave food to attract their prey.

  • Language and articulation sense, used to express feelings and convey information in every medium from the bees' dance to human literature.

  • Sense of humility, appreciation, and ethics.

  • Senses of form and design.

  • Sense of reason, including memory and the capacity for logic and science.

  • Sense of mind and consciousness.

  • Intuition or subconscious deduction.

  • Aesthetic sense, including creativity and appreciation of beauty, music, literature, form, design, and drama.

  • Psychic capacity such as foreknowledge, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychokinesis, astral projection, possibly certain animal instincts, and plant sensitivities.

  • Sense of biological and astral time, awareness of past, present, and future events.

  • The capacity to hypnotize other creatures.

  • Relaxation and sleep including dreaming, meditation, and brain wave awareness.

  • Sense of pupation including cocoon building and metamorphosis.

  • Sense of excessive stress and capitulation.

  • Sense of survival by joining a more established organism.

  • Spiritual sense, including conscience, capacity for sublime love, ecstasy, a sense of sin, profound sorrow, and sacrifice.

  • Sense of homeostatic unity, of natural attraction aliveness as the singular essence-diversity attraction dance of all our other senses (NNIAAL).  (Cohen, website: http://www.ecopsych.com/insight53senses.html).

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