EP.5 | Thirty-six senses
Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are the five senses most commonly used to describe human perception. Yet the body receives many other kinds of signals that rarely have their own names in everyday life.
We know where our hand is even with our eyes closed. The body can tell when we are tilting, turning, or losing balance. We feel heat, cold, pain, hunger, thirst, and changes happening inside the body. Physiology describes these abilities through concepts such as proprioception, the vestibular sense of balance, pain and temperature perception, and interoception. Depending on how these systems are classified, science does not use a single number for the total number of human senses.
The number 36 appears in several modern Ascension systems, most clearly in Marconics, founded by Alison David Bird and Lisa Wilson. In Marconics material and the book The Clarion Call, humans are described as once having 36 senses or more, with that range of perception gradually narrowing as the human structure declined.
These senses are described across a spectrum that moves from familiar forms of perception to intuition, energy, and spiritual awareness:
1–5 | Physical senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
6–10 | Energy awareness: intuition, sensing vibration or energy fields, premonitions, and signals that are difficult to tie to a specific physical sense.
11–15 | Time and space: sensing timing, dreams, synchronicity, and forms of awareness described as extending beyond ordinary linear time.
16–20 | Emotional and spiritual awareness: sensing other people’s emotions, presence, spiritual connection, and states of deep empathy.
21–25 | Light and sound: forms of perception described as extending beyond the familiar ranges of human sight and hearing.
26–30 | Multidimensional awareness: collective consciousness, the Akashic Records, layers of reality, and experiences described as extending beyond familiar three-dimensional space.
31–36 | Unity: states of awakening, connection with Source, and a sense of unity with a reality larger than the individual self.
This is an esoteric map rather than a physiological classification of 36 sensory systems. Marconics places these abilities alongside chakras, the multidimensional body, spiritual DNA, and Ascension. Its source material also includes spiritual experiences and channeling.
Some of the experiences described within these systems are familiar to many people: sensing that someone is watching from behind, knowing something before finding a reason for it, waking just before an event, noticing someone’s mood before they speak, or seeing vivid images during meditation. Some people call these experiences intuition. Others use the language of energy, spirituality, or extrasensory perception. Their causes are not always clear.
The number 36 therefore means something different from the way physiology counts sensory systems. One classifies channels through which the body receives information. The other describes forms of awareness within a spiritual framework about human beings and consciousness.
Within these systems, perception is also described as something that can weaken or narrow. The pineal gland often appears in this part of the discussion, along with the idea that it can become “closed” or lose some of its perceptual capacity. In the human body, the pineal gland can indeed become calcified.
Are biological calcification and the idea of a “blocked third eye” talking about the same thing?