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I had a discussion with a student
today about religion and spirituality.
Based on having seen someone who
claimed to communicate with the dead
some time back on Larry King and the
book Hello From Heaven, I asked my
student if she believed such a thing
was possible. She said she did not.
Then I asked her how she'd convince a
blind person that such a thing as
sight was real. For this, she had no
answer.

This raises an interesting question
about psychic abilities. How can
anyone, who possesses a sense that
others do not, prove that sense
exists? A person born blind from birth
has to take your word for it that
sight actually exists and only does so
because so many people say it is so.
Does a sense, such as the ability to
communicate with the dead, not exist
because only a small minority
possesses it?

We all rely on our senses almost
exclusively when estimating the nature
of our world. Part of the purpose of
meditation is to turn ourselves off
from the senses for awhile in order to
experience something else.
Unfortunately, most people are never
able to disengage their sight, sound,
touch, smell, and taste enough to find
out if our other senses are covering
up our ability to perceive another
sense.

It's not so outrageous a possibility
that the blaring stimulation one's
nervous system receives could be
making it hard to sense something
else. After all, people who are
inundated with sounds often say it
is "too loud to think." If loud
sounds, extreme temperatures, or
bright light can impede your mental
clarity, isn't it possible that the
cacophony of sensory input in daily
life is blotting out other more subtle
sensations?

Our senses are also highly fallible.
How often do you see something out of
the corner of your eye yet upon closer
inspection see nothing there. How
common is it to be with someone and
say, "Did you say something?" when
nothing has been uttered. It's also
not uncommon to have non-psychotic
olfactory mini-hallucinations, though
most people do not recognize them as
hallucinations. They just think they
smell something from a source they
cannot locate.

We trust our senses quite thoroughly
and readily dismiss all that we cannot
personally perceive. Science is built
on a foundation of extending the
senses through technology in order
to "prove" things. Never mind that
theories are mutating and old proof is
being proven incorrect because of the
inaccuracy of the instrumentation.

Remember the pictures of the face on
Mars? For many years, tales were spun
about the formation in a famous
picture taken in 1976 by Viking 1. In
2001, better technology on the Mars
Global Surveyer has shown there is no
face in the formation and it's simply
a mesa. It's about what we think we
see, not what is actually there.

I'm not suggesting we start believing
every medium's claim that he or she
can talk to Aunt Minnie who passed
away 10 years ago or that we
disbelieve everything our senses
perceive. What I'm suggesting is that
we at least be open to the possibility
that our senses aren't all there is
and that they aren't always right.

We should accept the possibility that
we are blind to what some people can
sense and that they're not lying just
because they can't offer proof of
their ability.