Befriending Our 12 Senses, A holistic Approach to Sensing, For Teachers Everywhere E-BOOK

Puppies have five senses.  Humans are more than puppies.  How did human beings get limited to only the five senses a puppy has? 

While modern Western culture trains us to triangulate outer things precisely--it trains us to triangulate inner experiences almost not at all.  

Each of our sensory channels can be conceived as its own "intelligence."  Can Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences be a bridge for students to grasp the possibility of 12 senses?  

Companion volume to Befriending Our Biology (2021).  Written for holistic educators in K-12 and adult education; including, in Specialized Kinesiology methods.  Ideal readers will be people interested in both human energy and having 'God as my Partner' in all experiments with invisible energy.  Why?  Because when working with unseen energies, you deserve the best psychic-spiritual protection available. 

Contained here is possible Waldorf middle school curriculum, to accompany perspective drawing, on how we use two or more senses to gain-grasp conscious certainty of things, people and qualities external to us.  Our Inner Triangulater triangulates objects by perceiving them from several senses at once; as if, from two or more visual angles.  The more additional senses are deployed to an external object, situation or person, the more certain we can be of our impressions and percepts.

In Western academia, as of 2024, the paradigm of human sensing has yet to expand beyond a puppy dog's five senses.  In order for an expanded paradigm of senses to spread more widely, let's reach out to both K-12 teachers and holistic healthcare practitioners.  Hence this text.  Comments, corrections, additions, invited.

At the beginnings of NLP 1970s-1980, Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory (VAKOG) was all well and good.  It's 40 years later; plus, 40 years of kinesiology testing.  It's now much easier now to shift from the animal model of only five senses to Rudolf Steiner's model of 12 human senses.

Learning about our 12 senses has similarities to exploring how, in their native language, 20th century Eskimos honored their highly evolved-nuanced perceptions of "snow" with 57 words for "snow."

This replaces and greatly improves on two shorter booklets, 
VAKOG to KAVOG, NLP Senses Updated in Light of the Inner Child - 6,900 words
From 5 to 12 Senses, How We Use Multiple Senses to Triangulate, Multiple Intelligences 2.0 - 10,800 words