Spell of Sensuous

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In David Abram's book The Spell of the Sensuous he explains how the sixth sense can act as someone’s ability to connect the surrounding nature by altering their consciousness. 
Abrams mentions that the idea of the sixth sense experience is often refuted and overlooked by Westerners. He claims that Westerners perceive the sixth sense as some sort of super natural power. This is evident through Western media like the movie “Star Wars”, which imagines a world where individuals connects to their natural surroundings utilizing the “Force” or the Bruce Willis movie “The Sixth Sense” which features a young boy who can see dead people. Abrams explains that while the sixth sense experience remains quite unbelievable it is actually a very 
real connection that people can cultivate with their surroundings. People who are believed to freely move between the realms of the physical and spiritual world have sometimes been integrated into different societies. In certain native cultures there are sometimes shamans who live at the edge of their villages so that they can act as the bridge between physical and natural world. In many ways this is similar to how people who claim to be fluent with their sixth senses today are treated. Tarot card readers and fortune tellers today sometimes own small businesses located at strip malls and people usually scoff at places like that, but I bet significant amount of people you know have gone in either out of mere curiosity or to fulfill a serious inquiry.

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