Articles & Studies | By October 18, 2007 | By Robert Yourell, MA | 0 Comments

Your Sixth Sense, or Eighth, Needs Menudo

In grammar school, they told us that thought was the sixth sense. But you hear all kinds of crazy things in grammar school. The picnic benches had bolts that, should their paint chip off, would release kooties, but I live to tell you about it.

Thinking is largely about processing existing sensory data, so I suppose that’s why you don’t hear that it’s the sixth sense. Intuition is a candidate for “sensiness,” because of the roundabout way that most people become conscious of intuition, but it’s still a form of thought. Well, unless you believe that your intuition is psychic. Now that would be sensing transpersonal or otherwise cosmic information with a yet undiscovered sense organ. Hold that thought. Read more →