Nowadays, reports about these miraculous special functions are increasing day by day, and it is difficult to tell whether they are true or false. Thirty years ago, the United States conducted a survey among psychologists (90% of whom were university professors) to investigate their views on ESP. At that time, it was believed that there must be and
The total number of possible people only accounts for 17% of the surveyed people. However, in the late 1970s, Dr. Maren Wacuna, a psychologist at the State University of New York in the United States, conducted a survey of 2,400 professors at major universities in the United States. It showed that: ESP accounted for 17% of the total.
16.3%, 49.3% believe that it probably exists, 19.4% think that it probably does not exist, and only 10.9% do not admit it at all. In other words, more than half of American university professors
Believe that the sixth sense-esp actually exists
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With the rapid development of science and technology and the continuous deepening of physiological research, people have become more and more aware of themselves. Scientific experiments have shown that in addition to the five basic senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch, the human body also has
Physiologists call this feeling "body sense" and "body fuzzy perception" a premonition of the body's future, which is also called the "sixth sense" of the human body. Abroad, people's mind power or mental induction is called the sixth sense of the human body.
, also known as extrasensory power (abbreviated as esp in English). Several manifestations of people’s sixth sense The sixth sense is a mysterious feeling. Different people have different degrees of perception. I want to know if you have a sixth sense.
Do you feel comfortable? Please answer the following questions with "yes" or "no": 1.
The dream I once had actually happened in reality; 2.
Going to a new place that I have never been to, only to find that the scenery there is very familiar; 3.
being knowing what they are going to say before others even speak. 4.
Often Having a Correct Hunch; 5.
Sometimes the body has inexplicable feelings, such as the crawling feeling of ants and a short-term tingling sensation; 6.
Able to predict when the phone will ring; 7.
It is foreseeable that you will meet someone, and it really is; 8.
Having uncomfortable physiological reactions before the disaster arrives, such as suffocation, fatigue, etc.;
Often have colorful dreams; 10.
You will hear unexplainable sounds from time to time. If you have 3 positive answers, you have a sixth sense; if you have 5 or more positive answers, your sixth sense is more active; if you have more than 7-10, you are very sensitive.
The sixth sense. The sixth sense is an innate function of the senses that ordinary people do not have. Intuition, or the sixth sense, is a term often mentioned in modern psychology. Discussing this issue will, on the one hand, help us understand the understanding of this issue in modern psychology.
On the one hand, understanding the problem will help us have a deeper understanding of Buddhism. The difficulty in discussing this issue is not to explain the Buddhist point of view. Buddhism is very clear about the consciousness of all living beings.
The difficulty lies in what exactly is the sixth sense. First, what is called the sixth sense in modern psychology. Modern psychology focuses its research on the deep layers of consciousness, and thus analyzes the activities of consciousness into consciousness and subconsciousness. In psychology
Above, the definition methods of subconsciousness and consciousness are different. Consciousness has a clear connotation, while subconsciousness is a general definition of a collection. Consciousnesses that cannot be realized are collectively called subconsciousness. It can be seen that the sixth sense belongs to the subconsciousness. What is the sixth sense
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g). I personally think that using "intuition" and "sixth sense" is more representative of modern psychology's explanation of this issue. Intuition refers to the feeling that does not use the reflex function of the five senses, while "sixth sense" and "subconscious"
The definition method of this word is the same. They are defined by the elimination method of a set. Western psychologists believe that consciousness receives external stimuli through the five senses: hearing, vision, taste, smell and touch, and then
Organize and analyze, and finally understand. The subconscious will receive more things that are missed by the conscious level. They are not obtained through language or logical reasoning. These messages are stored in the brain for many years, and we are not aware of them. When they
When it emerges to the level of consciousness and becomes a recognizable feeling, it is what we call "intuition" and "sixth sense". In other words, the sixth sense is a floating thing in the subconscious and can be recognized by the conscious mind.
Floating objects. The basic process of the mind is as follows: root dust interacts with the seeds in the eighth consciousness, the sixth consciousness distinguishes the external environment, and the seventh consciousness not only distinguishes but also adheres to it. In this process, the third consciousness
The materials in the eight consciousnesses are processed together with the sixth consciousness to make them "things" in people's eyes. Fundamentally speaking, these three consciousnesses are the manifestations of different functions of one mind. Its essence is the Dharma Realm. The sixth consciousness
The function is to distinguish, so it is obvious that it is far-fetched to say that the sixth sense is the sixth consciousness. Moreover, the sole function of the sixth consciousness is an independent process of discrimination based on its own habits of discrimination.
It is reflective, but it does not rely on external roots. Therefore, it is obviously different from the things floating in the subconscious that are consciously realized in the sixth sense. Therefore, we cannot say that the sixth sense is
Consciousness. Fundamentally speaking, the eighth consciousness is the entire world. In this sense, the things that modern psychology says are not conscious of consciousness naturally belong to the eighth consciousness. But what modern psychology says
The subconscious is opposed to the material world. It is a collection of psychology, not a concept in the realm of Dharma. Therefore, in terms of the meaning of the famous saying, it is not the eighth consciousness. The reason why I want to talk about this issue is because it involves the eighth consciousness.
The issue of the manifestation of consciousness. This manifestation is related to the sixth sense. All things with outflows are cultivated into seeds, and this seed is hidden in the eighth consciousness. At the same time, the seventh consciousness insists on the eighth consciousness as "self". According to
This seed gives birth to various manifestations. The so-called seeds are the functions that can produce fruits. In this process, the current things have two causes and final results. One is karma, and the other is concentration. The floating objects of the subconscious mind
, sometimes it is concentration, sometimes it is karma. In other words, the sixth sense is sometimes the result of concentration, and sometimes it is the result of karma. What can be realized by karma is the physical world and the body; by concentration,
Then it can manifest the material world and body of other places as well as sound, light and other material phenomena. The sixth sense is a kind of awareness of floating objects in the subconscious. People are in some kind of karma or in some kind of samadhi state.
, can perceive things related to the seeds of the eighth consciousness. However, it is obvious that what the sixth sense perceives is generally intermittent, and it has no stability. This is because most of the sixth sense is not obtained in deep meditation.
3. Understand the sixth sense from Jung’s “unconscious” theory. In modern psychology, the most in-depth study of the subconscious is the psychoanalytic theory. As we all know, there are three representative figures in the field of psychoanalysis. The first one is of course
It is Freud, who is the leader of psychoanalysis; the other two are Adler, a representative writer of individual psychology, and Jung, a representative writer of analytical psychology. Among these three, Jung is the most mature in analyzing the subconscious.
ju
g). The analytical psychology founded by Jung is by far one of the most exciting theories in micropsychology and the one that has gone the deepest among many psychologists. In Jung's works, the subconscious mind is called the unconscious.
He said: "Consciousness, a mental phenomenon, has a certain narrow nature. At a given moment, it can only contain very few coexisting contents, and all that remains is unconsciousness. Only through the continuous movement of consciousness,
Only then do we gain a sense of progress and a general understanding or perception of the world of consciousness. We can never gain the entire image because our consciousness is too narrow; we can only glimpse the flashes of existence." "Complete consciousness.
It is the product of the perception and positioning of the external world." ("Theory and Practice of Analytical Psychology"). Jung particularly emphasized the use of intuition to discover the unconscious, and he often did so in his own medical practice. Jung believed that,
The unconscious is a huge historical warehouse. From this point of view, the sixth sense itself is also the content of one's own spiritual world. Then how does the unconscious float into consciousness? Jung did not give an accurate explanation for this.
Description. But we seem to be able to see something from this passage: "Unconscious processes are not directly understood; they are only revealed in their products. According to the special nature of these products, we assume that there must be something hidden behind them.
"It's something." ("Ibid."). Here, he used the word "product", which I think is particularly important. It shows that Jung believed that the sixth sense floating out of the subconscious was operated by the unconscious.
.The operation of the unconscious, or the operation of all spiritual things, and even everything in the Dharma Realm, is the manifestation of the mind. Therefore, the sixth sense also originates from the eighth consciousness. Our understanding of the eighth consciousness must be
Try to proceed from the two perspectives of "containment" and "function". They are not entities, they are processes, like waterfalls. They are one thing or multiple things, but they are not the same thing or multiple things.
.Things known by the sixth sense actually all come from what we call "heart". Naturally, this "heart" is not just consciousness, not just sixth consciousness, or it is not consciousness in essence. We daily
The habit of "analysis" is not highly rated by Jung. Moreover, he believes that the West is good at analysis, which is a weakness of Westerners. He even said that philosophers do not know what thinking is at all. He said, "
We can no longer continue to pursue any kind of traditional psychological concept that ignores the existence of the unconscious and spirituality." ("The Undiscovered Self") Once, a doctor had questions about Jung's views and methods, and asked for help.