Last week I read a scientific article about déjà vu’s, probably caused by a glitch in the brain. Since I have personal interest in that intriguing subject it got my attention. I have noticed that there is a lack of research concerning that matter but also concerning telepathy, premonition and the sixth sense in general. So I was surprised that I found that article and happy that at least some researchers focus on the subject. Because it is important to approach anything from a scientific perspective, I try not to explain things by intuition or common sense.

But that doesn’t mean that I would not act or reason by a hunch or a common sense; acting as or finding an explanation for are two totally different things. Thinking broad and keeping as many options open is very important for science, yet sometimes I see the opposite in the scientific world. The above-mentioned matters are often considered as crab or nonsense by several scientists resulting is very little publications.

In Belgium we grosso modo divide sciences into exact (bèta) sciences and social (alfa) sciences and our flow through education program is adjusted on the previous distinction, at least for what concerns the non-technical/handicraft education. This means that most 14 year old students choose then between the exact or social sciences and mostly this distinction lasts up to university, probably in total contrast with the American education program or even other European countries. If you are lucky -as myself- and have experienced an education from both disciplines it will broaden the scientific view, since most scientific explanations are multidisciplinary.

That means in order to explain the déjà vu’s, telepathy and sixth sense in general we have to widely open our insights from exact to social sciences. And very often, “there squeezes the little shoe”, because some scientists do not want to broaden the view outside their familiar activity. It takes guts to work on matters like the sixth sense because of the “crab” believe some scientist have. Einstein said that the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination and he often mentioned creativity. For me that means keeping all the options from different disciplines open and only then you will discover the “truth”. According to me that is why there are many scientists in numbers but only once in a century a scientist like Einstein occurs. No offence to the others of course!

The sixth sense seems to me nothing more than ordinary, common. A matter that can and will be explained scientifically when the time comes and when science will evolve in the upcoming century. The only condition will be that some scientists open their “crab” and multidisciplinary views, listen very well to the (uncommon) descriptions some people make, be creative and stick their clever heads together.

Because I want to find answers to my questions and…I love science!

 

Leanna Lila Rose