I know a few thinks by now
I had almost forgotten already about this thread but when I saw the reply email, came back to read what I had written earlier. Funny, I noticed, I forgot to tell what the 6th sense (or call it the next sense after the 5 we know already
) is. It is rather simple, it is the feeling of being alive. Can you just stop anything else that you are doing now and just focus on your understanding that you are alive? If you can feel that difference then you already know how to understand your sixth sense.
Now some bright minds in here might ask how about the 7th, 8th and 9th. I am no magician but still, 7th I would guess will be the feeling of mind when we think in a foreign language within our brain. This feeling of something which uses the language (any language for that matter) to produce a meaningful sentence out of it in the mind. Say something (in your mind) in a foreign language and you can quickly feel your mind doing it. Now 8th, as I was typing this and reading once again my monitor turned blank (black) due to a power saving mode option, which reminded me about the sense of Maya (8th) which makes us feel many emotions based on something which is not real. Fear of a snake when you see a rope in the dark or reflection of your own, on shiny surface, which makes you hallucinate as something else. That sense of knowing which makes us understand that we just had the hit of Maya soon after we realize our own mind playing games with us. Like waking up from a very dark nightmare, we feel so relieved first that it was just a dream but we tend to miss the real sense behind the first feeling let’s call it Maya for now. Now 9th, soon as you remove the veil of Maya you can feel the God. If you are a believer in God, then you know God exist which is no other sense but its own, can we list that knowing of Good exist as 9th? Is that ok with you
Question is now that you are learning much faster about your own senses, which we are asked to control during meditation, what happens if your mind really takes off from all or at least the first 5 (in the first phase). Probably then we can focus more on the 6th or 7th or 8th or even 9th. For a human to lead a normal life is not ideal to remove his/her focus completely off the 5 senses. If a person does so then he tend to jump up the ladder of the path of knowing the truth much quicker. God has put in a mechanism within our body to take care of that. The breath of life (Thank My Lord Jesus) which brings you back to life, every time you slip off.
Yogi’s crack it by controlling their breathing but normal mortals like me would need years of practice of trying to focus on the 6th sense when body will automatically switch off breathing, both inhalation and exhalation, monetarily or micro seconds allowing you to focus on your mind. This is called Kevala Kumbhaka. If your brain is re-wired (through meditation) to remember that microsecond break from its normal functioning you can later remember that feeling of your own mind. Once you know the sense of brain then it is at least thinkable to switch that off as we progress to the next stage.
While you practice this you also need to protect your brain (mind) from the feeling of 'like being dead' or starting the process of death, using an internal mudra (a secret meditational method used with precise practical reason) which you need to learn from your Guru. Without this you are going to make your brain have a feeling of death one which will cause generation of such unwanted death hormones in your brain which you will feel like the biggest fear while meditating. Practitioners jump up from meditation or pranayama some even stop meditation forever once they feel this fear.
Why am I mentioning this here, to protect you from your own 6th sense. If you are smart enough to understand every feeling that we have is nothing but the secretion of some sort of a hormone in our brain then you can consider this feeling of connecting to the 6th (of great fear) by leaving the 5 as another set of hormonal secretion in our brain. Remind yourself that what you felt is nothing but an unwanted hormone, no need to fear, but you need to cautious about your own brain which would remember it forever. Knowing is the truth, once you feel it then it is real for your brain. Since the production of such hormones are only supposed to happen at the end of a human’s life span producing that during normal life is not nice or a preferred state of mind.
So play with the 5 first, let your brain settle down after seeing all that is there to see, touch, hear, smell and taste then when you are very very old, start thinking of the 6th. But if you want an early start then get a good Guru first before you take that path. One who is good at it, for real. I am sure that Guru will be a householder, not a saint. One who is working in a factory or doing a business of his own or something like that.
Sorry of the long text but this topic rather demands a long explanation. No arguments on anything I typed above, you win, already
these theories to convince myself, my path and even few unlucky souls (who are only exposed to half and are unable to practice the other half) who may even believe the pun and prejudice in these esoteric claims. Hope you all pardon all that was said about anything imaginary but attempt the practical deductions suggested.