Beyond the Senses
Consciousness · Perception
I used to think my senses were reliable gatekeepers. Then I realised they are more like curious island outposts, each with blind spots and secret doors leading to a vaster reality. This book takes you through those doors.
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Perception was never limited to a neat schoolbook list.
Human perception includes far more than sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.
The book moves from familiar sensory biology into temperature, pressure, balance and other less celebrated systems, then toward the more contested edges of nonlocal perception.
The approach is exploratory without treating every extraordinary claim as automatically true.
A wider map of perception.
From the senses you know to the experiences that do not fit neatly inside them.
The book starts with ordinary perception and follows the map outward.
The five senses
What the familiar systems actually do and what they leave out.
Hidden senses
Temperature, pressure, balance and the sensory systems school lists tend to ignore.
Filtering
Why perception is selective by necessity.
Nonlocal perception
Telepathy, clairvoyance and other claims examined as questions rather than conclusions.
Experiment
Ways to test experience rather than merely collect beliefs.
Consciousness
What a wider account of perception might mean for the mind-body map.
The first 20 pages.
This is the actual book, not a specially polished sample. Read the opening and decide whether you want the rest.
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Your senses give you a world. They may not give you the whole one.
A journey from familiar sensory biology to the stranger edges of perception and consciousness.
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