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The Long Lost Emotional Supersense: Recent scientific discoveries suggest the startling truth that human emotion is a long lost sensory system. Indeed, the force of human feeling is an entire supersense that both animates the body and guides the mind along a purposeful destiny path. What has historically been labeled as “spirit” is nothing more---and nothing less---than the supersense of emotion, a universal energy force that integrates and guides the choices of all material self-units in a “right” self-regulated yet harmonious co-creative eco-dance. The role of volitional behavior in nature has never been fully acknowledged as a primary driver of evolution. Yet behavioral choices are orchestrated at all levels of material complexity by these ancient positive negative electro-magnetic poles of the emotional supersense---from simple choices to share electrons by atoms, to choices to exchange or reject chemical messages between cells, to instinctive choices to approach or avoid a social other, all the way to choices between good and bad actions and right and wrong paths. Through both simple and complex perceptions of pleasure and pain the emotional sense evaluates and guides the right use of free will and yields behaviors that bridge the netherworld between quantum potentials and physical actualities. It is through emotional perceptions that we become aware of our highest calling and exactly how to get there from whoever we might be. It is by enlisting the full capacity of emotion’s evaluative guidance and motivational power that we translate divine will into actualized individual and global destinies, and fulfill our missions in the Earth school. Awareness of the emotional supersense offers a divine moral compass and marks the difference between five-sensory and multi-sensory states of human being. The Emotional Handicapping of the Species: As the voice of spirit, emotion gives rise to consciousness and works to continuously expand it by attuning the mind to the greater ebb and flow of life, so that our choices will go with the flow. Feelings ride the coattails of all experiences evaluating our use of free will, and faithfully informing us of good and bad, right and wrong choices of thought and action. But we have long ignored, suppressed and denied this innate spiritual guidance and have suffered greatly and unnecessarily. We have handicapped ourselves by severing our direct sensory connection to higher values and guidance. We are meant to grow and evolve from every feeling, to correct the wrongs that bring pain and design our world around the rights that bring the highest pleasures---until pain is but a faded memory, reduced to the rare occurrence. But pleasures are intended to increase and become more richly complex .We are meant to enjoy a life filled with the richest, most meaningful and rapturous feeling experiences, those that accompany the most enlightened thoughts and actions. Such a life is marked by rapturous awe for the beauty and wisdom within nature, by curiosity to discover her deepest secrets and highest truths, by devotion to loved ones, by passion to manifest one’s highest potential and greatest creative legacy, by gratitude for each moment, each other, and for divine guidance, by compassion for human frailty, by reverence and honor for all life, by merciful forgiveness for human ignorance, by sublime mirth in the humorous mysteries and ironies of fate, by courage to surmount all obstacles and resolve injustices, by faith in natures higher wisdom, and the passionate enthusiasm to wring the most value out of every day, every moment, and every experience. Instead, we are riddled with painful corrective signals, left unanswered. We are using our free will in wrong, biologically unsound ways. We have largely lost out on our highest purposes and are caught in a self-destructive cycle of increasing pain-and seek escape through denial, victimization, addiction, and medication, which only further suppress our natural guidance and distance us from our source. Indeed, unresolved negative emotion is the source of immune dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, and many forms of cancer---when we resist the life force we choose death. The human experience is now darkened by such recurring feelings as anxiety, fear, frustration, shame, guilt, resentment, envy, jealousy, disgust, contempt, anger, and hate. The species behavior is one of competition, infighting and self-defense against one another because we have not recognized our innate connection and cooperative imperative. The threats of eco-disaster and nuclear holocaust mark this wrong-track cultural progression. With the loss of this major sensory system, we have handicapped ourselves, but unnecessarily. All divine guidance lies within: All great religious traditions have promised this inner guidance but have left out how we are to find and use it. We now know exactly how to access it---through the supersense of emotion. Like the perceptions of sounds, smells, or colors of the other senses, this ancient guidance system delivers complex feeling tones such as love, hate, envy, admiration, anger, and compassion, each rich in meaningful information about our body, our mind, and the world we have created. Since nature’s divine guidance is so essential to our survival, the emotional sense influences us in several ways. Each feeling first carries the ancient negative or positive electromagnetic valence, which tells us through repellant pain or attractive pleasure to both protect the body and develop the mind. Second, each feeling also delivers motivational urges to move---even force---the body to make approach or avoid behavioral changes. Third, each feeling carries a unique informational tone that tells the mind exactly what is going on so that it can help. We are intended to use all three levels of guidance in each thought and action, ultimately designing a mindscape in alignment with nature’s values and wisdom. Accessing and uniting all three levels of guidance unite the body with the mind and the self within the world. There is value and purpose within the Universe and harmony within evolution: Darwinian dogma would have us believe that evolution only occurs over ridiculous lengths of time and through random mutation, that behavior is animalistic, competitive, and genetically determined, that the tremendous harmony within nature is a colossal accident, and that human goodness is an illusion. Yet natural selection includes an elegant adaptive interaction within and between all self-units wherein behavioral choices play a primary role in evolution in each moment---and this elegant adaptive dance is orchestrated by the emotional supersense---the regulatory electro-magnetic music of the overall environment. How atoms, molecules, and cells choose to respond to the positive and negative electrochemical emotional cues, how organisms choose to respond to pleasurable and painful sensations and approach or avoid urges, how animals choose to respond to joyful or fearful conditioned representations of opportunities and threats, and humans choose to respond to complex understandings of right and wrong actions and situations-----all effect the flow of evolution and ongoing co-creation of the natural world. And all such choices are guided by the either/or positive/negative, good/bad, joy/fear perceptual messages and their paired counterpart action tendency of attract/repel, agonize/antagonize, approach/avoid, or accept/resist. The emotional force is that fundamental aspect of electro-magnetic energy that yields behavioral self-regulation of all fractal self-units and bridges quantum chaos and material predictability with an added dimension of volitional yet guided behavioral adaptations. As such, the interactive sensory information it constantly delivers provides the perfect balance between biological predestiny and free will. What does this mean to me? Unless you are one of the lucky few, your life has a good deal of pain and suffering. Frustrations, angers, sadness, ennui, emptiness, fear, hopelessness, mistrust and commonplace and urges to escape pain or pursue immediate pleasure often overcome your better judgment. Life seems to come at you and crash over you like a powerful ocean wave. Bad stuff happens, leaving you wondering why. Then sometimes, for seemingly no reason at all, you are on top of the world, riding that wave into successful experiences. Using emotion helps us learn how to capture and recreate the peak moments, and to see the motion of the waves, where they are taking us, and how to ride them into the most rewarding destinations. Once we learn how to use the emotional supersense, we let go of all resistance and do not attempt to control more, to know more, or to change more than nature allows. We are supported by the faithful and wise motion of the universe and life becomes an exciting unfolding mysterious adventure that we both create and enjoy. How do I learn more about this? EFS International is the organization we have developed to share this information, through a set of understandings and techniques we call The Emotional Feedback System. Although our ideas and writings continue to evolve, our goal is to create and deliver this information in packages that can be opened and enjoyed by audiences from all backgrounds, and at every level of self-understanding. To date, we offer a preliminary handbook to the mid-to-high level spiritual seeker (see Papers & Publications). It includes the scientific underpinnings of the system while seeking to offer the information in general terms and providing tools for daily living that will allow the insights to unfold. We welcome your interest.