Is Your “Gaydar” Up and Running?

New scientific research from Tufts University supports the existence of “Gaydar”–our subconscious ability to detect another person’s sexual orientation (Science 27 November 2009: 1171). Students were flashed images of women, no ears or hair showing, and told to guess their sexual orientation. The students guessed correctly 64 percent of the time–better than the 53 percent correct answers when shown only pictures of the womens’ eyes. This results tends to support the idea that our subconscious mind is capable of making very fast, accurate judgments based on small slices of information, as popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink, also Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind by Guy Glaxton, and The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders.

Sensing the Interface of Your Subtle Mind

Detecting subtle energy in your life isn’t as complicated as it sounds. You don’t need fancy measuring equipment or gadgets like we use in crop circles. We are always detecting the quality of information available to us but it’s often only at a subconscious level. Consequently, we often simply don’t pay attention to our gut reactions. Actually, all of the equipment needed to increase your awareness is already built into our physiology. It’s simply a question of paying attention to your feelings about what you are doing, seeing, and experiencing from moment to moment. Most information that comes into our senses is deleted or sequestered to our subconscious undermind, more than 99 percent. However, it’s there if you know where to look.

Teaching and doing resonant viewing for more than a decade has taught me that people have a lot of abilities they normally don’t make much use of. For instance, when you feel the sense of impending danger in your life, you look around and pay more attention to your surroundings, even without something tangible to go on. Similarly, you can pay attention to your positive feelings about anything you are dealing with at the moment to magnify the interaction.