Our bodies are receiving stations for signals sent between the concrete world of material reality and invisible, subtle inner worlds of soul and  spirit.  Thoughts, emotional feelings, the body’s sensations and our subtle perceptions all become signals that lead to an expanded awareness.

Our sense organs pick up and translate everything from the waves of light and sound waves, to vibrations of molecules and translates them into electrochemical signals that are relayed, via sensory nerves to the body’s brains (the cranial brain, the ‘heart-brain’, ‘gut-brain’ and other major neuroplexi).   Consciousness (which extends beyond the physical body into the mystery of transcendental reality) interacts with neurological signals and triggers a variety of cascading neuropeptides, hormones and neurotransmitters that are interpreted as conscious (and unconscious) experiences within the body of one’s awareness.

“…The Egyptian sages designed essential breathing exercises for the 12 senses
(seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting, feeling, transmission of ideas,
telepathy, clear sight, spiritual discernment, intuition and realization)”.
[The Illustrated Book of the Dead, Seleem Ramses].

In ancient Egypt it was said that we actually have twelves senses, not five. Those 12 senses are:

1. seeing (via the organ of the eye)
2. hearing (via the organ of the ear)
3. smelling (via the organ of the nose)
4. feeling (via the organ of the skin),
5. tasting (via the organ of the tongue)
6. felt-sense  (via your ‘gut’ response to subtle energy; clairsentience)
7. transmission of  emotions (via your spiritual heart’s sensitivities; telepathy)
8. transmission of ideas (via your inner ear; clairaudience)
9. clear sight (via your inner eye’s vision; clairvoyance)
10. intuition (precognition and retro-cognition—pattern recognition that transcends time and space)
11. spiritual discernment (via holographic perceptual awareness; integrative brain functioning)
12. realization (via embodied awareness)