"It is both our panic and our privilege to be mortal and sense-full." - Diane Ackerman Can you love without any senses? I suppose we'll never know, because we, as humans and animals, have never done so. For as long as I've been alive, love has always been at the forefront of my brain: the concept of it, the science behind it, its many forms, etc. This often results in a lot of effort put into my interpersonal relationships; in something like a ritual, I write down little notes about all my friends, my mother and father, about the things they like or don't like, their favorite foods or scents or things to be called. For this blog post, I'm going to endeavor to relate each of the five senses that we covered in Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses to love. p.s. linked above is a beautiful video from 14 years ago featuring beautiful lesbians dancing :) Smell: This one seems fairly obvious with all the Ackerman talk about pherom...
I’m finding the 6th sense to be very difficult to write about as there isn't a strong definition of what it is. Also, many people view it differently or have different ideas of what it can mean or do. But it’s such an interesting concept as its been defined by people as a sense of intuitive power or knowing what may happen in the future. But I find that definition to be confusing as it doesn’t give us anything real or tangible to connect too. The reading for this week by David Abrams, Jeffrey Kripal, Jon Kabat-Zinn tried to explain it, but I still found it rather difficult to comprehend. Other sense such as the classic five senses are very easy to understand, and we learn what they are at a young age. But there are other senses too such as balance, synesthesia, spatial awareness, temperature awareness and pain which are a bit more complex understanding the basics still isn’t too difficult.
I agree that reading about the 6th sense was very confusing. I think there are multiple definitions for the 6th sense, that trying to explain it coherently so everyone can understand is almost impossible. But we try, because we constantly want to know why something happens the way it does.
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