AWARENESS OF THE SENSES 1

P. 45-48

Our perception, our knowing, primarily comes to us through our senses—sight, sound, taste, smell, touch. 

The guides are suggesting that we have learned a very limited use and awareness of our senses, i.e., we could know much more than we do.

Our perception, of ourselves and our world has become limited by our learning, by habitual understanding. 

Just imagine what it would be like to have blinders on, but not knowing you have blinders on, or years ago when those weird 3D drawings were around, and you had to stare and stare, and let your eyes defocus a certain way and then—BAM, all of a sudden the picture became clear. It was there all the time, I just couldn’t see it.

(if you want to try some out, plug in Magic Eye into your web browser.)

The major point is we can know much more than we give ourselves credit for. We can “sense” things beyond the limits that we ordinarily impose on ourselves.

You can walk into a room and know if this is a friendly or hostile environment, no matter how the people might appear. You can know when a person close to you is having a bad time without saying a word or even without looking distressed. 

We travel into other dimensions without even thinking about it. We can touch someone miles away. We can move into the past in the blink of an eye, not just as a memory, but as an experience.  We can do this with both positive and negative experiences. We can send healing to a fellow human being miles away. We can experience being loved by God or another human being seemingly without any sensory information at all.

What I found disconcerting about the first part of this chapter was the use of work such as  clairvoyance, clairsentience , psychic abilities, etc.

I am one of those many people who feel that skills or gifts such as these were only for a few people, and certainly not for me.

As was stated in the first book, “this is not a book on psychism,” but it is a book abut going beyond self-imposed limitations, and most if not all of our limitations are self-imposed whether we are conscious of that or not. 

Here is the key: We are living in limitation. We have been taught, or we have learned that “this is how the senses work; this is the information you can expect you senses to give you—this and no more.” And so we bought that one.

I’ve read in various places that children can naturally see “auras” around people. (The aura is a projection of the energy field surrounding the physical body which can appear as various colors depending upon mood, etc.) Because this vision is never reinforced by the adults around, the child soon “forgets” to see that way.

What we are being asked to do here is to consciously let go of our self-imposed limitations, even if we do not know what they are, and be one to all possibilities within out spiritual awareness. 

“Now we will not speak of psychic abilities as if they are something mystical, because they are not. They are simply an amplification of what you are already doing without the limitations that you have placed there in your agreement with cultural availability to expected norms, or through a self-identification of limitation, which says, “I am not allowed,” “Because it doesn’t have to be so, I don’t believe it can be so.” Period.

Now once you understand that what is before you is in psychic prosperity, which simply means an expansion of what you can see, you will begin to understand that the worlds are larger than they are experienced in this dimensional construct, the one that you are all in agreement about.”

“Now we speak of knowing in different ways at different times, and one of the decrees we have emphasized so far is “I am in my knowing.” “I am in my knowing” states that what I know, I am claiming in truth, and I am operating from a higher claim of knowing that has been available to me through my appropriation of my divine knowing. Period.”