‘Soul Senses’ Can Help with Grief

The soul senses are the primary means by which we are able to apply the principles of love, connection, and trust. We need the soul senses to invoke and feel the presence of love-energy. We also require these nonphysical senses to detect the presence of the soul(s) to whom we wish to speak, as that consciousness does not come attached to a physical body. And we need to learn to trust the information we receive through our soul senses, no matter how illogical or strange it may seem.

These are the challenges inherent in our version of the afterlife healing circle, but they are not all that different from the challenges of any kind of spiritual activity. How much do we trust what we receive? Do we pay attention to it and act on it? The afterlife healing circle is a good way to engage consciously with our spiritual and emotional natures and strengthen our trust in this half of self.

In brief, the four soul senses are:

1. Soul vision, also called clairvoyance
2. Soul understanding, also called clairaudience
3. Soul feeling, also called clairsentience
4. Soul awareness, usually included with clairsentience but actually its own distinct channel of communication.

There may be additional channels of nonphysical communication, but these are the ones we know and use every day.

Many Types of Soul Senses

Paranormal researchers often refer to psi abilities as telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis, and clairvoyance. The first three names, however, more properly describe what is taking place instead of how the nonphysical, intuitive information is being transmitted. Some specifics will make this distinction clearer: Telepathy is mind-to-mind communication, and it can take the form of thoughts (soul awareness), visions (clairvoyance), feelings (clairsentience), or even an understanding or words heard inside the head (clairaudience).

The same applies to precognition. It is possible to have a vision of a future event, or a feeling, or an understanding, or simply to know that an event may take place. We have mentioned psychokinesis before. It happens when energy interacts with matter, something we do every time we meditate or visualize to relax our muscles or lower our blood pressure.

The difference between the soul senses and their physical counterparts is intensity. The experience of the physical senses is far more forceful than the soul-sense counterpart. Material colors are more vibrant, material sounds are more elaborate, material smells are more distinct, material tastes are more complex, and material touch is stronger than the nonmaterial. This is one of the reasons souls return again and again to a material reality—to avail themselves of a far stronger, richer, more involved sensory experience.

Soul Senses Scan Energy

Just as the five physical channels of communication bring us information in material form, the four nonphysical senses convey information that is in nonphysical, or spiritual, form. We may infer, then, that energy in any form, material or nonmaterial, is also information. When we use our soul senses, we are simply scanning and interpreting information as energy instead of as matter, for which we use our five physical senses.

We may also infer that the two sets of senses are interrelated, because we already know that matter and energy are one and the same, differentiated only by their varying ranges of frequencies. Think back to the turned-earth smell that helped alert Richard to the
presence of his friend’s dead father. The soul’s intense desire to gain Richard’s attention evoked the material sense of smell.

In addition, when we use our soul senses, we are activating the subconscious mind, or emotional body, and the unconscious mind, or spiritual body. This is the half of self that is capable of connecting us with souls who do not have physical bodies. We cannot reach
or interact with discarnate souls through our conscious, rational mind.

Can Soul Senses Help with Grief?

Although they may seem weird to the rational part of our mind, the soul senses really are not any more mystical or magical than the physical senses. As souls in physical bodies, almost all of us possess all four nonphysical channels of communication. Unfortunately, very often the information the soul senses bring to us cannot be quickly verified through one or more of our physical senses. And while we are in physical bodies, we tend to believe that the physical is somehow more real than the nonphysical.

Yet our feelings, similar to odors in the air, are real enough, even though we cannot see or touch them.

Moreover, the conditioning and programming we receive from birth on teach us not to acknowledge and certainly not to trust the nonphysical senses, because they do not function in a rational manner. Of course, the soul senses are not rational. They are not meant to be rational. They exist for a different purpose.

We lop off fully half of our being, the emotional and the spiritual, and relegate this huge part of self to second-class status, when we ignore or deny the nonphysical information we receive constantly through our soul senses. Small wonder the dead and the not-yet born seem so far away. We are socialized from birth to discount and distrust the very half of self that connects us to the other side.

Copyright © 2015 Candace L. Talmadge and Jana L. Simons from The Afterlife Healing Circle published by New Page Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser

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