Ancient Egyptians believed that full humans (which may mean people who have run the gamut of initiations) have 360 senses. My marbles roll confusedly on the floor just thinking about it. Okay, so we’ve got five senses we know, more or less. Rupert Sheldrake tells us that sixth sense has been appropriated by scientists to categorize the way that animals use the magnetic, gravitational and electric fields to detect migrate, detect prey, etc. We could break down this sixth sense to another five different senses. Sheldrake goes on to coin the term “seventh sense” to engulf all the other extra-sensory perceptions like clairvoyance, precognition and telepathy (the three that he focuses on) and describes how difficult it is for researchers to tease these three apart.Those of us who have taken classes from Betsy Bergstrom knows that there are different types of extra-sensory perception like clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairolfaction, instant knowing, etc. If we stretch all of these to the extreme, we may come up with almost 20 senses that we know of. That means there are about 340 we don’t know about. Quick calculations say that the most astoundingly psychic of us would know only about 5.5% of anything.

Ancient Egyptians had an understanding that we do not know a concept or thing until we knew all aspects of it. This is where humility and the Great Mystery come in. The understanding that there is still so much we don’t know.

Do you remember when you were little and you made something, a picture perhaps, and you showed it to someone who didn’t appreciate it or thought it was just clutter? If this happens on a regular basis, eventually that special something that we put into the picture withers and goes dormant for lack of recognition or acknowledgement from the outer world. It’s like it didn’t exist. Eventually, we ourselves forget about it. This is soul loss. Lack of perception/connection can engender soul loss.

What happens when we walk the world, appreciated only for our quantifiables: money, possessions, appearances, career, etc.? What happens to all of those non-goal-oriented parts of us? What happens to the creamy-nougat, juicy-joy parts that could, say, feel what Christmas Morning was, sniff the change of seasons, eat the sunshine in an orange or allow the undulations of the sea run through our bodies as we stand on the beach?

This is what makes life worth living. Jobs and possessions allow us to live so we can experience the world in our own unique ways, to feel these things and become one of the fingers of Spirit connecting with the world.

Such people, each in their own way, contribute to the experience of the greater whole of which we are all a part. So it behooves us to help people find their destined scoop of life and regain their abilities to enjoy it–because at the deepest levels (where our commonality outweigh our divisions) we are enriched by each person who fully experiences life.