The Seventh Sense

All animals and humans have five basic senses viz. sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. The sixth sense of cognizance, the faculty available only to man, is the 'common sense', one that helps us perceive all the five senses together and analyze them and help us comprehend between good and bad (evil). The seventh sense of pre-cognizance or precognition, one that is not fully developed in all humans would be the highly evolved senses of intuition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and increased levels of wisdom or jnana, and the perception of the paranormal. A human being of high spiritual evolution would thus perceive aural or ethereal beings, possess spiritual powers of healing and the like.

Darwin's theory of natural evolution, read as it is, sounds a tad out of sync and debatable, because if a single-celled organism were to evolve over eons of years and then develop into the higher classes of beings; and if men indeed evolved out of apes, the theory of natural progression should then eliminate the need for the earlier states of existence as meaningless. Thus, after the evolution of the apes to the higher class of human beings; apes then would become redundant and along the same lines no single-cell organism need to exist, simply because that species would have evolved. But then, Darwin was addressing the issue from a totalitarian point of view, to encompass evolution on the whole, of all beings over long periods of time. If one were to realign the view of Darwin and his theory to individual planes of existence, the view then assumes a different proposition. Darwin was probably correct in his theory of natural progression, and probably, many beings that live today, would have existed as a single celled organism eons ago and by subsequent transmigrations could have evolved to become complex multi-celled beings and eventually progressed to take on the human form. The individual 'you' or 'I', could in all probability have gone through the Darwinian natural progression during various points in time, and 'now', is where we are! Nature and the laws of karma would then govern the states of progression or regression, according the deeds of each individual. That would then put the onus on men, to evolve to higher states of existence, by following righteous behaviour, or devolve into lower classes of beings by exhibiting animalistic traits. The next logical question is, 'what would be the next stage of evolution for man?' By natural progression, 'is there a higher stage that man can evolve into?' The answer could perhaps be that invariably, scientifically, or spiritually, man eventually must attain Salvation or Moksha, which is the next step in evolutionary progression, one that can happen after many cycles of births and deaths!