Senses

We have senses all the time that we may not be aware of for a variety of reasons. Often until you are in the right environment you might not be aware of a lot of the senses you have. For example, I walked into the bathroom to change batteries in my hearing aids. Even though I couldn't see the water drops on the counter some sense told me that they were there. So, as I looked at it from the right angle the ones that I could not see but somehow sensed there actually were within an inch or so of where I sensed them to be. I was surprised and wondered what senses I had used in know that they were there.

However, often when I am driving I will sense a car I cannot see at all next to me in my truck. I cannot see them in the next lane because my truck is a very tall but stock 4 wheel drive and often you cannot see shorter or smaller sport cars or sometimes even Prius sized cars. So, if you don't see them in your mirrors driving up alongside of you unless you sense them you don't know they are there. So, in a larger vehicle sometimes this is a little scary  in some situations. Also, Semis can't see cars even pickups if someone is directly behind them or in their side blind spots. I suppose if you were just in front of their hood a few inches from their front bumper they might not see you too.

So, when driving it is important to understand the limitations of larger and smaller vehicles in all sorts of situations like this.

For example, when I spend more time outside like driving a long distance in my car I notice often that my vision gets better when I do this. If I'm skiing in the snow all my senses adapt to this as well. Or if I'm riding my dualsport motocycle my senses adapt to that as well. But, I notice if I'm traveling alone sometimes it is quite an adjustment at age 65, much more than when I was younger. So, if I'm going to drive for more than one day I like to take another driver with me like my wife or one of my daughters or my son. I find this much easier to adapt to this way if the trip is over one days drive.

Also, for example, when I did a 4 day, 96 hour straight vision quest without water or food in 1983 that was one of the most eye opening experiences of my life. I couldn't believe the range of experiences a human body can experience in 96 hours when it is healthy but without any food or water at all. I think this was one of the most empowering experiences of my whole life. I never really expected to experience the actual range of senses that I did while doing this. It gave new meaning to the word "altered" for me.

However, when you are praying while being in this physical starvation mode God tends to come through for you and tell you what you want to know as long as you are sane enough and adult enough and healthy enough to do this in the first place. However, I think it is much more beneficial to be out in wild nature while doing this or else you just might be talking to ghosts and house spirits wherever you live instead which might be kind of scary. So, if you are going to do a native American Vision Quest where you choose to do it and the weather at that time are both very important to think about.

At one point by about the 2nd or 3rd day in it seemed perfectly logical to allow two hornets who were bothering me to clean my nostrils so they would leave me alone. I telepathically told them that they could clean my nostrils but if they stung me I would kill them. They agreed. This is not an everyday experience for me. It might be for others but this was the only time I did this. As soon as I let them do this they left me alone and I was happy and so were they. So, the potential for your actual senses and potential senses are actually hundreds of times more amazing than you likely have experienced yet in your life.

The other interesting thing was I became a forest creature and at one with all the nature creatures. The vision quest allowed me to slow way down into Nature creatures telepathic states. We are like on Caffeine normally compared to the level at which they all function. But if you slow down your senses and processing of information suddenly you find your mind and their minds in the same telepathic universe and it is amazing. The only time I got sort of scared out in the wilderness was when it was night time and I thought I heard bears coming into the bear wallow that I was in about 4 to 5 miles from the nearest human beings. Luckily, even if they were there they likely saw or heard or smelled me there and decided they didn't want to be around humans there on the side of the North Fork of the Trinity River in in the wilderness Northern California.