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Awakening the InnerSense – SomeMethods &Meditation ObjectsByFloco Tausin, Switzerland.The name Floco Tausin is a pseudonym.The author has studied at the Faculty of theHumanities at the University of Bern,Switzerland. In theory and practice he isengaged in the research of subjective visualphenomena in connection with alteredstates of consciousness and the developmentof consciousness as such. In 2009, hepublished the mystical story “MouchesVolantes” about the spiritual dimension ofeye floaters.What we know as our weekdayis a tide of miscellaneousinformation which we receivewith our five senses and put together to anintegral picture in the brain. The senseorgans are the gates of our body – theyconnect the outside world with the innerworld and determine, dependent on ourstate of consciousness, how we experiencethis world.But is there more to human senseactivity than touching, seeing, hearing,smelling and tasting? There is, accordingto many cultures and religions where wefind the notion of an inner sense. Thissense is thought of as a mode of perceptionwhich directly and intuitively givesinsight to the essence or true nature of theobject perceived. Often this subtle or innersense is linked to the eye as a widespreadsymbol of light, cognition and truth. It isthen addressed as the “inner eye”, “thirdeye” or “eye of the heart”, common amongmystics who experienced the divine light.In Indian mythology, for example, thisinner sense is expressed as God Shiva’sfrontal eye that gives him unifying vision.Accordingly, tantric yogis try to open thisthird eye by activating the “Ajna Chakra”,located between the eyebrows. Likewise,111