Coincidence or Constant Connection?
by Tigris Powers
All creatures are created with the capacity to interpret the world around them in order to survive. We call the mechanisms through which we connect with the world the senses. Most people will tell you that they have five senses: sight, sound, taste, smell and touch. While others will confirm that they have six senses through which they experience the world. The sixth sense, being the ability to receive, or send, information intuitively, psychically or telepathically.
Knowing that this ability is present within some of the species on the Earth, one could accept that this sixth sense must have origins dating all the way back to the dawn of creation. Both humans and animals have displayed this ability in numerous ways. However, today, this sixth sense seems to be missing from the general population. When we think about the ways in which such a sense could assist our evolution on the planet, one must ask the question: where has this sixth sense gone? And why?
Within each species, there are parts of the brain that are more developed than others. For instance, a human's ability to see is much greater than a dolphin's, whose visual system is one-tenth the capacity of ours. Whereas, a dolphin's sonic and acousitc system is ten times the capacity of a human's*. Some animals' primary sense is the sense of smell, while others primarily use touch to discover their environment. These differences are a result of how the species has evolved on the planet, and which senses were used the most for their survival.
We humans have put much energy into speech and language and not so much energy into our innate psychic abilities. Perhaps this is why we do not recognize our psychic sense as familiar, the way we recognize the other five. That which isn't used regularly becomes stagnant. Many of us humans may have shown signs of the presence of a sixth sense early in life, but a lack of nourishment then caused it to fall away.
Today, there is evidence that suggests that our innate psychic sense may be returning, and lasting beyond the early years of life. The evidence has been brought forth by the new, highly sensitive children. Many of these "children of light", as I shall refer to them, have the ability to access their intuitive, psychic and/or telepathic senses quite readily. Actually, it comes perfectly naturally to them. The remarkable truth is that when we interact with the children of light, it is easy to forget that humanity has lost touch with the sixth sense. I believe that the children of light are bringing it back.
There have been multiple instances in which my son has demonstrated this psychic sense in action. He is 26 months old. Each time it occurs, I find myself wondering, did that really just happen, or was it just a coincidence? And each time I know that it was, indeed, a "psychic moment". I have gotten into the habit of entering these occurances into a journal as I notice them.
One day, when my son was just over two years old, I was speaking with my sister on the telephone. She had just left our house earlier in the day and she forgot her camera. She had called to see if it was indeed where she had left it. She said, "do you see my camera, it should be on the shelf right there?" As she was saying this, my husband walked by, carrying our son. As he passed, my son said aloud, "on the shelf right there, on the shelf right there".
I asked my husband if he could hear my sister talking on the phone while he walked by. He did not. Sometimes the lines between coincidence and psychic connectedness are blurred just enough, that we have to consider that there is, indeed, another sense at our discretion.
A similar psychic moment took place the morning after Thanksgiving. We were sitting at the table eating breakfast with the centerpiece from dinner the day before still in place. My husband commented on how nice the centerpiece looked. I responded by saying, "yes, and the willow branches cost less than living flowers, which is always nice." When I spoke this, I thought about the price of the willow branches that I had bought, but I did not speak it aloud.
Immediately following my response, my son began saying "99" over and over. I looked at my husband and asked if he had taught Cedar "99". My husband said, "no". Then Cedar said in the middle of a sentence, "4.99". This was the exact price that I paid for the willow branches. Not only had Cedar never said "99" before, he had never learned it. And "4.99", well we haven't yet taught him his dollars and cents.
How is it that the new children are able to access and use this sense with such seeming ease? I believe that it is because they are constantly connected to Source, to that from which they came. In essence, they are sourcing directly from the substance of creation, or, as it is sometimes referred to, the Akashic realm.
Perhaps, with time, I will get past the need to question it, and I will simply know that this "other sense" is just as real as the five senses that were nurtured in me as a child. Perhaps, in time, I will overcome the genetic programming that lessened my own sixth sense, and I will be able to fully re-awaken it. As all of us open up to this re-awakening, our evolution will pirouette forward once again.
* John C. Lilly, The Dyadic Cyclone
