DEFINING REALITY

We use these 5 senses on a daily basis:, probably often without thinking much about them at all. 

1. hearing
2. sight
3. smell
4. taste
5. touch

Many of us perceive the 'other' world, where our loved ones who have left this world supposedly are, as formless and impossible for us to use those same senses to comprehend. However, it is dawning on me that isn't exactly the way it is at all and I have some pretty amazing examples to prove it, to myself anyway, and I am not so easy to convince. I am one who questions and wants proof for everything and I am getting it,

In art, we talk about positive and negative spaces and shapes, depending on whether the artwork is three-dimensional or on a flat surface.  Objects are 'positive shapes' in a painting, for example, but are surrounded by 'negative shapes/spaces' that define the objects themselves. The spaces form shapes just as the objects do, and by focusing on drawing the shapes of the spaces between objects, students do really well in depicting things accurately as they appear in the physical world. So, by seeing what is  NOT there, you can define what is. 

Maybe this is a helpful analogy when it comes to more esoteric concepts, too. 

What if we were to interpret information we receive through our senses in more ways, such as smelling something that we know is not in our environment, but reminds us of someone. Could that be a sign that person is trying to reach us? This strikes me as not dissimilar to looking for the spaces between objects in the physical world to define them in recognizable ways. 

For example, what exactly IS mother's intuition? Most people seem to take for granted that mothers possess this gift just by being mothers, but what SENSES are we using when we have a 'feeling' about one of our children? If you look through the Clairs listed below, you'll see right away that we have more than the 5 senses we are most familiar with. 

'Clair' in French, means 'Clear' in English, therefore 'clairaudience' translates as 'clear hearing'. Below are the 5 senses we use much of the time without thinking about them and some uses and new ideas you may or may not already be familiar with.

THE CLAIRS

1. Clairvoyance: seeing
2. Clairsentience: feeling
3. Clairaudience: hearing
4. Claircognizance: inner knowing
5. Clairalience: smelling
6. Clairgustance: tasting
7. Clairempathy: emotions
8. Clairtangency: touch

I have actually experienced most of these at different times,  and I finally realized they had meaning I really wanted and needed to connect with.