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Sixth Sense

Be Able To

Date: Sep 28 2012

Themes: Hobbies

Grammar: Be Able To

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We perceive the world through our senses. The five senses are hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, and smelling. The sixth sense is a way of perceiving things through the mind rather than one of these five physical senses.

Not everyone agrees that the sixth sense truly exists. But some people swear that they have psychic abilities. They can predict the future, see things that others can’t, or read people’s minds. Some people even claim that they have the ability to talk with the dead.

Even if you don’t consider yourself a psychic, you may have had strange experiences you can’t explain, or felt a strong gut instinct that turned out to be correct. Hear Amy and Jason talk about their experiences with the sixth sense.

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Amy

Jason

Amy: I wouldn’t say that I have a sixth sense, but I do feel like I have a sort of gut instinct that, if developed a little bit further, could maybe lead to some premonitions or some kind of psychic ability.

Jason: Wow. So you think that the sixth sense is something you can work on. It’s not just something you have or something you don’t have.

Amy: I sort of do. I mean, I think that we all have it, you know? I think we all have these strong feelings or instincts sometimes, and most of us just ignore them. But I feel like if you worked on that the same way you work on other things that you have in some small measure, like, you might be able to refine it.

Jason: OK, I’m ready. How do I work on it? What do I do?

Amy: That I don’t know. We need some sort of spiritual guide, I think.

Jason: OK. Should I just go through the phone book and see which one gives me the chills?

Amy: Yes, exactly.

Jason: OK.

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Discussion

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Amy says that she has strong gut instincts. She thinks that if she worked on it, she could even develop a sixth sense. In fact, she thinks all of us have the potential to develop a sixth sense if we really try.

Jason wonders if the sixth sense is something you either have or don’t have. But Amy points out that all skills take work. You have to practice and refine any ability before it becomes consistent and reliable.

Jason does not have any psychic abilities. He thinks he needs a spiritual guide to help him develop a sixth sense.

Do you have a sixth sense or any kind of psychic abilities? Do you believe in the sixth sense?

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knuschu

Germany

A really interesting theme. It’s helpfully to hear to the “inner voice”, think twice before you do or say something.

Another point related to these theme is “lucid dreams”. You sleep and dream, and you know, “right now I am dreaming”. In general it’s interesting how the brain processed happenings during the sleep.

julito

Argentina

our mind has powers that we dont even know and some people seems to have developed the ability to go beyond the five senses and experiment things related to subtlier states of conscious as psychic power, the ability to read the future . It could be a good thing or not ,it depends on the use we make of it. I know of fake people that claim to be able to read the future and take advantage of gullible people that pay them to do so.

bellaboo2422

Pakistan

yes, i guss it exists. it depends if we know ourselves better. we often observe some gut instincts in our life some times we care about or some time we ignore. i have experienced it in my life often, its an oddity type of thing to undrstand. if we are strong spiritualy we can understand what it is actully and ofcourse we can refine it with proper guidence. thing is to ponder it honestly. it evolves within our psyche and develop in deep insight so we can vision. last but not the least we should use this sense in a possitve way only. i am sure, its a blessing from Allah almighty to human beings.

nourelyakine

Algeria

Yes Sixth Sense actually exist ,i have it, really

Is shown in that I could hear and see accidents before they occur

If you feel this Call me Please

wannicho

China

i think i have it in me all the time , my mom told me my great-grandma is a psychic who can connecting ghosts, and i had one of my wildest experiences at the age of nine, i saw a baby soul sleeping right besides me .i am the only child , my parents have been always trying to have another kid but they were all failed to come to the world .i hope psychic abilities is sth u can work on , and somebody can teach me to have it , then i can be able to talk to my daddy and my grandma

Ngubo Sixtus

South Africa

sixth sense does exist

S01142923

Malaysia

When I was younger, we always played this game that allowed us to talk to the dead. Adults, too, believe in this game of talking to the dead. It always gave me chills, especially, when we played the game at night.

Mr. Learner

Peru

I don’t know if you’ll call it sixth sense or not, because I believe in spiritual power.

I believe that our spirits have enormous power, but we have to train ourselves to be able to use it.
So, I’m not sure about the sixth sense, but I believe in spiritual power