Seeing with our eyes closed. When we did our presentation on the sixth sense we showed the video trying to have us see a ghost. What was interesting about this video to me though is the whole time we had our eyes closed, we were supposed to SEE with our eyes closed how on earth can that possibly work? Apparently it does, not in that particular instance, but there are people who are capable to such tasks, more than us just feeling a possible presence in the room. I am thinking particularly of bling people, who are able to "see" using sonar. I saw a video a few years back about people who can use clicking noises in order to navigate themselves around the world. Some people are able to even paint complex pictures of what rooms look like just using their sonar abilities. This makes me think about how much more we actually see in a particular day. As we've discussed our brains are constantly filtering things out in order for us to get our perception of any particular moment. The fact that people can pick up abilities such as sonar, makes me think of what some people may actually be capable of seeing or doing. Especially with the loss of any one of our major 5 senses.
What's a nard, and what does it smell like?
What a google search revealed a nard to be Starting on Valentine’s Day, we started reading The Aroma of Righteousness by Deborah Green, explores the imagery of fragrance in rabbinic literature. Two months later, we had Dr. Rachel Herz from Brown give a lecture on her work unraveling the neural processes of olfaction and gustation. The readings and lecture gave the class a well-rounded understanding at how scent is employed in ritual for invoking emotion. As mentioned earlier, our sense of smell is the most memorable due to its proximity to the pre-frontal cortex. Although research behind this phenomenon is relatively recent, practitioners of religion understand the influence of associating scents with divine concepts. In her introduction, Green mentions how we lack a vocabulary to describe our sense of smell, and refer to such using simile, metaphor or simply naming the scent. The explanation for such is that the olfactory bulb is located so “far down” that the circuitry co...
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