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 What is the 6th sense?

 First of all try to read the following out loud and very slow. It might make a point.

The 6th sense is simply brain functions that take part in the subconscious level of the mind, but more or less some of us can perceive them in a conscious level.

 I would actually say that we all can perceive them; we have the ability to, it is just whether we want, care or bother to, whether we notice it, experience it, or whether it holds any interest to us. As you will see from the following article in Brain anatomy and consciousness analysis, we tend to focus our attention on certain things that are of our interest or concern, and thus this way lot’s of information becomes subconscious because we simply don’t take it into consideration, not even for a split second. Each one of us has his/her own personality, way of thinking and pretty much all the attributes that characterize us and make us individual. It is totally up to us whether we going to become more self-aware of subconscious information and signals that the brain supplies us with or simply not bother. After all, some of us do give a damn!  

 Is a very interesting way to see it, and it is much better than keep talking mambo jambo about the subject. Is about time to link paranormal with factual understanding and expand our knowledge and perception in the matter.

Introduction

 Yes the 6th sense exists, but it might not be just a sense, such as taste and vision, but a result of the complexity and fast processes that our brain consists of. Many of these processes happen so fast and in a way that we don’t get to perceive them consciously or properly at most times. We can be unfamiliar and uncertain with how to interpret the nature of these signals and we doubt them as the conscious mind will always intervene and slow down the process of realization. That’s because we tend to analyze and think over various cues that we perceive from our environment. Even if we know that they act on a subconscious level, we still don’t pay attention at this extra information that our brain supplies us with, at all times. Somehow our conscious mind does notice subconscious information, the processes do communicate in a certain extend but they are fast. After all the connection and limits between subconscious and conscious are matters of perspective.

 Our lack of understanding of how our brain works and this excitement for superstition has led us into either be shallow and apathetic towards it, uninterested or ignorant, curious and amazed of it, or simply confused as we don’t know what to make of it. Is like walking on a rope, trying to balance between science and factual understanding, versus paranormal, self experience and awareness. But they both drive us after all. We need both. They both raise questions, observe reality and insist on answers and speculation of the subject, they strive to prove the facts and the lies, to explain the unexplainable. That’s evolution of understanding. And we wouldn’t have achieved it if we didn’t notice things that on the first sight they may seem crazy, silly or paranormal but on the second thought, hey they are there and ignoring them is more like disillusioning our selves and deny to evolve. Research is needed, an everlasting strive to acquire knowledge, a never ending battle to learn and understand our nature and the universe. And for every new step there is a need to change our perception.

 So is better to look towards brain functions rather than paranormal. See, the moment that we try to explain something as extraordinary we simply condemn it to sound illusive. Yet is good to keep our minds open, and even if science cant give a reason for everything that concerns the 6th sense, we can always still believe in these extraordinary things, just so we don’t forget them, by implementing them into our lives, society or culture and thus keeping them alive and expanding our knowledge of personal experience on it.

 Spirits, 6th sense, magic, everything has an explanation but the point is how many years, eons, millennia will take for us to understand them and how we change our perception about them thru out time.  That’s the most important.

 So in order to speak of the 6th sense we need first to explain what the conscious levels of the mind are and what they are for. Then we won’t only be able to explain the 6th sense but many more things that arise thru our magnificent brain. See, it doesn’t always have to be hocus pocus!

Scientifically? Probably not. But we accept spooky events as a paradox. We can’t explain them yet, but we observe them. One could be entanglement, when 2 particles at different locations seem to communicate with each other on an instant moment. That’s information travelling rather faster than light. And as the speed of light is still considered to be the max speed limit, such ‘’telepathetic’’ properties that these particles posses cannot be explained when using our current theories.
The million possibilities arise down to the subatomic level, and thus a dozen of parallel realities come into play, refer to M-theory/Multiverses. Could we summon magic by picking a different reality or accessing a parallel world? It sounds like science fiction indeed. Could we entangle our minds into the world?

Is true, that out of our every single moment and action, various possibilities arise, I can lift a glass of water and I can instantly have a few options: to move it further, to just hold it, to drink water, to smash it, to do anything I want with it, and so I consciously decide which reality to pick, yet all the possible realities may do still co exist with mine. This way science itself promotes scepticism and enhances the complexity of the real world, by using some crazy amount of maths and spicy reasoning.

But magic is a bit more than this, is energy, is alchemy, and it is power.
We see magic as an inner potential and this is where science cannot help us much, this is where the limitations appear in the subject and it moves into a paranormal research rather than a factual study. Neurology could just about improve our knowledge when it comes down to brain functions, by explaining our wiring, activation of certain neuron areas and even chemical production based on our moods and thoughts.

We’ve all heard of magic potions, magic rituals and all kinds of paganistic practises. Yet the reality behind them is distorted. While lots of it is based into ancient practises, which they may feature some mystical knowledge of the Old, many of the rituals and ingredients have been altered due to neo paganism or new age spiritualism. Lots of information has been lost or burned, especially during the dark ages and so on, while other go back way in time into the ancient world, where again we have acquired some information thru excavations, but much of it cannot be deciphered.

So how can we say that the validity of the rituals holds any true power?

Spoken words during a ritual, inspire focus and resemble to that of a prayer. Prayer is a form of meditation. So it can relax the mind, and thus the body. An excess meditation can probably even affect parts of the brain. A ritual that involves prayer and repeatable actions might be a form of paganistic meditation.

Lets see what science has to say about this: Neuroscience will support the belief of re wiring our brain thru meditation. While science, will discuss the possible results in the activity on the brain, as brain scans have indicated this activity.

The idea is that thru meditation we come to believe that we can control and balance our emotions versus our ability to be rational and put thought into various matters, before acting on them. Thus lesser the unnecessary emotions, and replace them with more positive and creative thinking. That’s because meditation seems to affect the left prefrontal lobes, and thus strengthen it, nourishing it, unlike the amygdale that is responsible of our primal emotional irrational reactions, and lots of activity on amygdale can be very much a cause of stress.

So that is one proof of meditation been benefiting, thus paganistic practises, religious prayers and all sorts of focused meditation and rituals, can be benefiting towards the brain and our well being.

But how could this be magic?

Well neuroscience experiments have shown how our thoughts can actually affect our brain wiring, production of chemicals and thus our physical body. Then positive thinking methods seem to influence our daily life. In a few words our thoughts have power over us, our lives and our world. Still this information is not enough to show any form of magic thru rituals or meditation. So to be factual, science would disregard any potential paranormal effect that rituals could may have.