We all know about our animal five senses that we have but there is also the very
important sense of balance which I always include as another of our
vital animal senses, for a total of six senses. We share these senses;
- sight, smell, hearing, feeling, taste and balance (the inner ear), with the other
animals in various strengths. These are the senses that are vital for animal survival.
They are the vital contacts between our physical body and the
environment that surrounds it.
They tell us what is happening to our body, they are our brain's contact with the
outside world. They tell us of our spatial orientation and balance, whether we
are hot or cold, if the food is good or bad, sweet or sour. They help
us hunt for food (see, smell, listen). They warn us of impending
danger. All these senses are extemely vital for our well being and
survival. We could not survive without them. We share these six
senses with all the other animals.
Humans have all these senses, although they may not be as keen as
some of the other animals. We may not be able to see as good as an
eagle or is our nose as sensitive as a bloodhound, but our animal
senses are sufficient for our survival. The higher animals also have
a limited imagination to help them survive in the wild, enough so that they may survive and prosper,
but thats about all.
In addition to the animal senses, nature has allowed mankind to evolve a very special
"Seventh Sense". This "Seventh Sense" is Human
Imagination - an immensely powerful creative imagination and learning imagination. It is not
vital to animal survival - the Neandertals and other animals survived remarkably well with a much more limited
imagination. Human Imagination, modern man's "Seventh Sense" is a very powerful special gift however
because it has allowed an animal such as we are to peer beyond the
veil and see startling new worlds never before seen by any animal on the planet.
The evolution of millions of new cells in the human brain created the
potential of millions of new pathways to become possible. This 'final
evolution' created a powerful new brain that allowed human beings to
become aware of the wonders that surrounded them. We had become
imaginative beings. It was our "seventh sense". This 'seventh sense'
has opened a whole new worlds for mankind to explore and comprehend.
It has allowed mankind to reach out beyond the very narrow animal
world into a vast new universe to "see" the wonders of nature.
Human Imagination has allowed mankind to climb from the valley of the
ordinary to the peak of the mountain, where all of nature's wonders
lay before it. Mankind's powerful imagination allows us to "see" deep
into the secrets of nature, to think abstract thoughts, to associate
marks on a paper with objects and profound ideas of other human
beings, to communicate verbally abstract ideas with other people, to create and
listen to beautiful music. to progress into the future.
Human imagination has transformed modern humans into a super being. It has given mankind a tremendous advantage over all other life on this planet - it has allowed us to take control of our own
destiny to a large extent. We can look at a collection of colors
dabbed on a canvas and perceive it as a beautiful painting, a work of
art.
It allows us to form picture the future in our mind, to perceive the beauty of nature's creativity. It has
allowed mankind to create and progress, over the ages. It allowed
mankind to invent technology that made it possible to discover other worlds that no one has ever even knew
existed. The telescopic world of astronomy allowed Mankind to observe far off stars and galaxies and the
miscrosopic worlds of germs and molecules, etc..
No other animal has
this 'creative imaginative power' it is strictly our special human sense. Its
sensors are the billions of pathways located in the matter of the
cortex of our enlarged brain. This seventh sense, "Human Imagination",
has created the "MIND" of mankind! - This "MIND" of mankind is an extension of
nature's power to create - we create things that nature cannot.
Donald Louis Hamilton - author of: "THE MIND OF MANKIND,
Human Imagination, the source of Mankind's tremendous power!"
The Mind of Mankind
Comment from a reader - Re: Mankind's "Seventh Sense"
I like the 7th sense analogy, our imagination certainly should not be
discounted. Without it, we would not have achieved what we have today. its
funny that we humans, in our *naked* form, are probably the most vulnerable
species on the planet. It is our MIND however which has enabled us to
absolutely dominate the world.