Theo
THE SIXTH SENSE
"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental
laws.
There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by the feeling
for the
order lying behind the appearance."
~ Albert Einstein
So I was going to put a gorgeous
photo of the sunrise up on the blog for this month, as here in northern
California we do have an abundance of them, and they are always an inspiration.
But I wanted to make more accessible and pragmatic and obvious the seemingly
intangible topic of this blog: Intuition.
Last weekend my husband and I
took a class on “Communicating with Your Animals”. We have two Tibetan terriers
that we adore, and often feel that they are trying to tell us something …
sometimes we seem to catch on, sometimes they walk away from us, generously
loving us yet crestfallen as they tolerate our dullard sensibilities. The class
basically pointed to the fact that animals communicate through the faculty of
intuition, which we could translate into words that make sense to us. We just need
to practice listening to them through our intuitive faculty, and validating
whatever we “hear” through the translation that occurs to us as our own
thoughts.
Hence scratching the sunrise
and posting the photo of Theo, a master of the sixth sense; our Sixth Sense
Sensei.
We talk about our 5 senses,
but there are really 7 - The 6th one being Intuition. Like, no
kidding, we all have access to Intuition as easily as we have access to touch
or hearing or seeing with the physical eyes. We just don’t think about it that
literally, so we don’t pay attention to it, so we don’t develop an affinity
with it like we do, say, with touch. Scorch your hand once on that burner and
you know that touching it again will produce a real and similar result.
Intuition is a realm of
communication, a very real sense available to us, which requires that we stop
listening to our familiar daily thinking, and quiet down what occurs to us as logical,
enough to hear the sixth sense of insight.
What if we practiced our
intuition with as much attention and pragmatism as we attend to the sense of
touch?
I have a friend who made 40
cupcakes for her son’s school party, which was happening on the next day, and
she left them out on the counter overnight to pack up in the morning. She woke
up in the middle of the night and had a “sense” that she should go check on them.
Now the real accomplishment here is that
she actually LISTENED to this prompting and GOT UP to check on them!!
When she got to the kitchen
to check on the cupcakes, she saw a line of ants heading straight for them! She
moved the cupcakes just in time to rescue them for the morning!
Silly you say? Well, that’s
the thing – notice how much we invalidate the sixth sense of intuition. We
would not invalidate a burn from the stove. What if we took the “feeling” about
something as being just as valid and tangible as being scorched by the flame?
Hmmm … I think will go ask
Theo ….
