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Physical Senses Beyond the Five We Ordinarily Recognise · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
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  We all recognize the input we receive from the five physical
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  senses. These perceptions form the basis
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  for much of our interpretation of our reality and our decision
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  processes. Most people never consider that
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  there are other senses possible or available to us.
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  We do recognize that there are other senses in various animal
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  species, such as the sonar or echolocation scents used by
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  dolphins, homing scents available to many species, not
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  just homing pigeons, et cetera. However, if we reflect for a
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  moment, we may recognize that on various occasions we have
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  ourselves received input from senses other than the five we
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  ordinarily recognize. Some people remark that they
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  have an innate sense of direction and can always somehow
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  align themselves in the world. Others note that they have the
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  ability to judge the weight of something by holding it in their
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  hand. Others sense the vital body or
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  aura of other individuals. Some can feel changes in the
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  energetic action of the moon, which is known to impact tides
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  of the ocean as well. People can many times sense when
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  someone is observing them without directly seeing it
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  occurring. Others report a feeling of
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  unease in certain locations where danger may be approaching
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  them. Some people report a connection
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  to another individual far away who may be thinking about them,
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  or, as in the case of some documented cases out of the
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  First World War when a close relation was injured and dying
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  on the battlefield. Still others report a sense of a
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  different atmosphere in one locale or another that may
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  register subtle physical characteristics, differences in
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  weight of the atmosphere, et cetera.
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  All of these are signs of additional senses that provide
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  us input without our overtly recognizing where and how that
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  input is reaching us. There is of course also an
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  entire range of powers that include telepathic
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  communication, remote viewing, etcetera.
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  Many of these are clearly represent physical senses, while
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  others may belong more properly to the vital aspect of our being
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  or direct powers of mind, not specifically based in the five
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  physical senses of perception. A disciple asks.
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  You said that our body can become receptive to forces which
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  are concentrated in certain places or in certain countries.
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  But can we have this physical sensation without a preliminary
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  preparation of the consciousness?
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  Or is it truly a spontaneous sensation like heat, cold or
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  goose flesh, for example? The mother responds, quote, if
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  it were the result of a thought or a will, it would not be an
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  experience and it would have no value.
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  You understand? I affirm absolutely that any
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  experience that is the result of a thought or preconceived will
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  has no value from the spiritual point of view.
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  End Quote. But were you not in a state, so
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  to say, favorable to this sensation?
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  The mothers replies quote, there are people who live constantly
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  in a higher consciousness while others have to make an effort to
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  enter there. But here it is an altogether
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  different thing. In the experience I was speaking
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  about in the preceding talk, Mother had described how on her
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  return from Japan, she had all of a sudden physically felt the
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  atmosphere of Sri Aurobindo at a distance of two nautical miles
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  from Pondicherry. What gave it all its value was
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  that I was not expecting it at all, not at all.
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  I knew very well I had been for a very long time, and
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  continuously in spiritual contact, if I may say so, with
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  the atmosphere of Shriorobindo, but I had never thought of the
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  possibility of a modification in the physical air, and I was not
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  expecting it in the least. And it was this that gave the
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  whole value to the experience which came like that quite
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  suddenly, just as when one enters a place with another
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  temperature or another altitude. I do not know if you have
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  noticed that the air you breathe is not always the same, that
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  there are different vibrations in the air of 1 country and in
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  the air of another, in the air of one place and in the air of
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  another. If indeed you are accustomed to
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  have this perception of the subtle physical, you can say
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  immediately, ah, the air is as in France, or this is the air of
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  Japan. It is something indefinable,
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  like taste or smell. But in this instance it is not
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  that. It is a perception of another
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  sense, it is a physical sense. It is not a vital or mental
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  sense. It is a sense of the physical
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  world, but there are other senses than the five that we
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  usually have at our disposal. There are many others.
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  In fact, for the physical being, note that I say the physical
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  being to be fully developed, it must have 12 senses.
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  It is one of these senses which gives you the kind of perception
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  I was Speaking of. You cannot say that it is taste,
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  smell, hearing, etcetera, but it is something which gives you a
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  very precise impression of the difference of quality, and it is
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  very precise, as distinct as seeing black and white.
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  It is truly a sense perception. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of life, Chapter
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  3. Hidden Forces around pages 62 to
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  64.