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The Direct Use of the Mind as a Sixth Sense · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We are trained to believe that the mind relies entirely on the
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  five senses of perception and the five senses of action in
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  order to receive data or undertake action.
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  If the mind is cut off from the senses, we believe that it is
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  powerless and unable to either sense, communicate, or act.
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  Spiritual science indicates that the mind has a power of its own
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  that is independent of these senses.
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  Modern Western science is now validating this understanding
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  through a unique series of experiments and advances in
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  understanding the operations of the mind.
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  We are all familiar with the image of the great theoretical
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  physicist Stephen Hawking. He was stricken with the
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  degenerative disease which left him unable to operate his body,
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  including the power of speech. He was able, however, to develop
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  a method to generate speech through the power of the mind to
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  generate internal vibratory patterns which an external
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  device was able to translate into speech.
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  The mind was capable of generating these bioelectrical
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  impulses which carried the content of the thought in such a
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  way that a computer aided device could convert it into speech
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  patterns. His experience is not unique.
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  Researchers have been reported to be testing the implant of an
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  interface called a biocortical motor implant between the brain
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  and the computer of people who have lost the use of speech by
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  reading the signals the brain generates and translating this
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  into computer generated speech. Other people are able to operate
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  a computer through the power of the concentration of the mind,
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  with the signal enhanced by various listening devices that
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  have been developed. Similarly, devices have been
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  developed to capture the brain's signals to operate prosthetic
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  limbs. What all of these things have in
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  common is that they directly tap into the brain's signals and tie
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  them into external devices that at least partially replace the
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  use of the normal biological senses that carry out actions
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  such as movement or speech. They prove that the brain is not
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  absolutely dependent on the senses.
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  There is also extensive research into telepathy, the ability of
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  the mind to directly communicate with another mind, either to
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  pick up the thoughts of another person or to communicate
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  thoughts to another person. A young student did an
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  experiment in telepathy and found that certain pairs of
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  individuals were able to identify colours or numbers or
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  shapes being focused on by the other party, far in excess of
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  random chance. Similar experiments have been
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  designed and carried out by researchers in Mind Science
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  under rigorous conditions. While such results remain rare,
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  they nevertheless do occur and tend to support the idea that
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  just as a computer device can pick up and enhance the
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  transmission of brain signals, so certain individuals are
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  capable of internally enhancing these signals, while others may
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  be receptive and capable of capturing and translating such
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  signals. Making the incidence of
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  telepathic communication something in our hidden
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  capabilities and potentially a power that will manifest more
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  widely as we explore inner space more systematically in the
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  future. There is no doubt that certain
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  individuals who live together are able to sink their thought
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  process to such a degree that they know what the other person
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  is thinking. And in many cases they are able
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  to supply words or finish sentences for one another, or
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  just express something that the other person acknowledges they
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  were just thinking about, without a specific external
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  context to justify the synchronistic thought arising.
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  TR de Chardin described a mental atmosphere that surrounds us,
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  similar to the atmosphere of air or the ionosphere around the
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  planet. Thoughts generated create waves
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  which go out into this mental atmosphere, which he called a
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  neurosphere, and are there to be picked up, received, and
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  potentially acted upon by others who happened to capture these
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  waves. This may also explain how
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  certain ideas or inventions arise in different parts of the
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  world at the same time without direct communication between the
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  thinkers or inventors. Another pointer in the direction
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  that the mind has its own power of thought creation and
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  reception, independent of any reliance on the senses.
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  Many people have had the experience of entering an
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  atmosphere that was filled with mental concentration and being
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  impacted by that atmosphere. Entering a library where people
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  are engaged in serious study has a strong impact on the mind of
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  the individual and helps to tune 1's mind to the mental
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  wavelengths. Similarly, when an individual
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  gives a lecture on a subject requiring intense concentration,
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  1 can palpably experience the atmosphere of concentration.
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  Silent chanting of a mantra can have an extraordinary impact on
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  an environment, as reported by people who happen to enter that
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  location, indicating that the mind was able to generate a
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  field externally without the use of speech.
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  Many people have commented on the ability of certain
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  practitioners of yoga to create a field of peace and
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  concentrated awareness around them, another sign that the mind
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  can have palpable effects in the outer world without use of the
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  physical senses to create that effect.
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  It appears that the mind's ability to generate bioelectric
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  signals can be enhanced, and it appears that the mind's ability
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  to receive and interpret such signals can be enhanced.
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  When the two coincide, communication can take place
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  without speech. A future development thus can be
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  seen as a consequence of the further evolution of
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  consciousness, Srioro Bindo writes.
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  Quote. The awakening of the psychical
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  consciousness liberates in us the direct use of the mind as a
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  sixth sense, and this power may be made constant and normal.
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  The physical consciousness can only communicate with the minds
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  of others or know the happenings of the world around us through
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  external means and signs and indications.
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  And it has beyond this limited action, only a vague and
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  haphazard use of the minds, more direct capacities, a poor range
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  of occasional presentiments, intuitions and messages.
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  Our minds are indeed constantly acting and acted upon by the
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  minds of others through hidden currents of which we are not
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  aware, but we have no knowledge or control of these agencies.
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  The psychical consciousness, as it develops, makes us aware of
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  the great mass of thoughts, feelings, suggestions, wills,
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  impacts, influences of all kinds that we are receiving from
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  others or sending to others, or imbibing from and throwing into
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  the general mind atmosphere around us.
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  As it evolves in power, precision, and clearness, we are
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  able to trace these to their source or feel immediately their
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  origin and transit to us, and direct, consciously and with an
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  intelligent will, our own messages.
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  It becomes possible to be aware, more or less accurately and
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  discerningly, of the activities of minds, whether near to us
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  physically or at a distance, to understand, feel, or identify
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  ourselves with their temperament, character,
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  thoughts, feelings, reactions, whether by a psychic sense or by
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  a direct mental perception, or by a very sensible and often
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  intensely concrete reception of them into our mind or on its
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  recording surface. At the same time, we can
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  consciously make at least the inner selves, and if they are
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  sufficiently sensitive, the surface minds of others, aware
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  of our own inner mental or psychic self, and plastic to its
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  thoughts, suggestions, influences, or even cast it or
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  its active image in influence into their subjective, even into
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  their vital and physical being, to work there as a helping or
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  molding or dominating power and presence.
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  End Quote. Reference.
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  Fioro, Bindu and the Mother Powers within.
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  Chapter 19. Occult Powers of the Subliminal
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  Pages, 1:47 to 1:48.