The word ‘detection’ probably brings to mind Sherlock
Holmes, magnifying glasses and finger prints.
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However, detection could also be described as awareness, consciousness, alertness and perception. Detection is an integral part of living, and is as natural as a child watching a spider spin its web or a baby observing the faces of his or her parents. Detection is a very important part of life, and includes the understanding of body language, sensitivity to emotional expression, and hearing the unspoken in people. In nature it can be used to sense the specific healing influence of flora, like herbalists in ancient times, who used their natural sensing apparatus to discover the different effects of herbs. Detection can also be used to experience history in live and fascinating ways; have you ever touched a standing stone, and wondered what stories and mysteries are locked up in it, or wondered what it would have felt like to live 500 years ago? It is possible to sensitise the senses, including the higher senses, the Extra Sensory Perception, to unlock some of the impressions contained in historic sites and ancient objects. So how does one start to develop this wonderful type of sensitivity? First of all there is the need to think about why one wants to develop ones faculty towards detection. ‘It’s not what you do but the reason why you do it’ contains an important idea about the power of the mind and the direction of one’s energies. The reason might be to sensitise yourself to herbs and plants; it might be to increase clairvoyance; to understand and direct one’s innate sensitivity; to more fully use one’s faculty; to observe and understand oneself. Or any one of a million other reasons. This is the first question to ask oneself about detection: Why do I want to develop these skills?contains an important idea about the power of the mind and the direction of one’s energies. The reason might be to sensitise yourself to herbs and plants; it might be to increase clairvoyance; to understand and direct one’s innate sensitivity; to more fully use one’s faculty; to observe and understand oneself. Or any one of a million other reasons. This is the first question to ask oneself about detection: Why do I want to develop these skills? If you can answer this, there are a myriad of starting places. Here is a couple you might like to try: Hands The hands are the most marvelous of sensing apparatus. We use our hands in habitual ways – to dress ourselves in the morning; to use a computer keyboard; perhaps to play a musical instrument; to cook; drive a car; and so on. There is nothing wrong with these habits – and very necessary they are too! But it is also important to sometimes use the hands differently. Spend a few minutes really observing your hands. Reintroduce them to each other. Perhaps get them to do a little dance together! Your hands can be used like another pair of eyes, but first you have to sensitise them and train them how to. There are a number of ways to do this. Try pressing the thumb and index finger together firmly, then the thumb and the middle finger, and then the thumb and each of the other fingers in turn. Now do this faster and faster. Do it until your fingers start to tingle. This is a way of sensitizing the fingertips. Or try putting your hands alternatively in a bowl of warm and then a bowl of cold water. Once you have woken the hands up, here is a great exercise for sensing your own electro–magnetic field: Bring the hands together in front of you, just below the chest. Hold your hands horizontally (with your elbows out) about 3 centimeters apart, so that the palms are facing each other. Then very slowly bring the arms and hands back and forwards (again, on the horizontal vector). With each movement bring the hands apart so that the tips of the fingers are over each other, and then back until the wrists are over each other. Don’t let the hands touch; keep them apart as you move them. Do this slowly about 20 times. Can you feel anything between your hands, although they are not touching? This is a small build up of electro–magnetic charge. If you do these simple exercises often, your hands will become more sensitive, and it becomes easier to sense the electro–magnetics of the human (the aura) and of plants and trees, and to sense leylines and the radiation of standing stones, etc. Eyes We generally are taught from a very young age to look at things hard and directly, and that type of vision is essential for reading, walking along without bumping into things, driving a car and so on. However, have you noticed how a baby’s eyes don’t focus directly? They seem to look around things, almost as if it the whites of their eyes that do the seeing rather than the pupils. This same phenomena can be seen if you look at the eyes of people as depicted in Ancient Egyptian artwork. They seem to be looking into the distance, through and beyond, rather than directly at something in the foreground. This way of looking is an ideal way to start to see the ethric, the first level of the human aura. The ethric is to do with the physical wellbeing of the person, and the larger and brighter it is, the better the health of the individual. It is a bit like the ‘Readybrek’ advert, if you are old enough to remember that! It is also possible to see colour in the ethric. Dark colours, reds and greens for example, are usually associated with tiredness, illness or depression. Light colours, such as blues or yellows, are usually to do with happiness and harmony. However, this explanation is very broad–brushstroke, and it is an exciting voyage of discovery to learn to see these colours and by experience and comparison understand what they are to do with. There are interesting ideas in the English language about this, such as ‘green fingered’, ‘in the pink’, ‘green with envy’, ‘the purple patch’ and so on. Here is a way to start to see the ethric. In natural daylight, either outside or inside, but not in blazing sunlight, get someone to stand facing you against a plain background, such as a white wall. Standing a few meters away look at a point on the top of their head. Keep looking at this point and let your eyes go out of focus. In a few minutes you might start to see a light start to appear around the head, and perhaps also around the shoulders and the rest of the body. Keep staring, but without breaking your gaze to look directly at this light. Remember to blink! You might eventually begin to see some colours. This needs practice, but most people start to get some kind of result even after doing this just once. This also works very well at dusk, and if you go out walking in nature it is possible to see the electro-magnetic radiation of plants and trees. For more information about the Art of Detection, check out a website me and my ‘Detecto’ friends have put together on the subject: www.sensoryartsandsciences.com Good luck with your sensitivity work, and I hope you enjoy it! It is your natural heritage and birthright, and it can be a very exciting adventure into the unknown. close window | |
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