Answer to Question #238860 in Psychology for Holi

Question

It is known that many people have senses beyond the 5 senses we have, but it is not necessarily acceptable for information only from the environment. Is it also from within you? If that happened to you, what would you say about it? Why doesn't the dominant scientific community consider more than 5 commonly known senses?

Answer 1

It is known that many people have senses beyond the 5 senses we have, but it is not necessarily acceptable for information only from the environment. Is it also from within you?  If that happened to you, what would you say about it? Why doesn't the dominant scientific community consider more than 5 commonly known senses?

It is in this sense that I speak of Mahavira, Jesus, Krishna, Christ and others: they had religious experiences. When I say that I am not influenced by them, I only mean that what I say comes out of my own experience and knowledge. I speak about them, I use their names, because what I have known tallies with what they have known. But for me the test is my own experience. On that test I find them right, and that is why I use their names. I am telling what I tell out of my own experience. They also prove right in my experience; therefore, I talk about them. They are my witnesses; they are witnesses of my experience as well. But this experience cannot be called new