We shape the world and the world shapes us.
The five outer senses recognized by Western
culture—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell—
are greatly strengthened and complemented by
three equally innate and essential inner senses:
the senses of harmony, rhythm, and sympathetic
resonance (or empathy).
These inner senses of harmony, rhythm, and
sympathetic resonance are essential because,
in the view sketched here, it is not possible to
characterize the uniqueness of the human species
without them. Name one other species that can
hear when an octave is perfectly in tune; Name
one other species that naturally dances to any
music it hears; Name one other species that
naturally senses the pain and grief of another
as if it were its own.
Tragically, all eight senses, both inner and outer,
are now being systematically and grossly corrupted
by the current corporate amplification of the
metaphysics of a radical materialism.