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king,” he said irritated and embarrassed. “I guess we’re going to be late,” he said resigned to it all.I shifted my position in the passenger’s seat and looked at the street.“I think I can get you to where you want to go,” I said.“Okay,” he was hesitant.I gave him a series of directions, right, left, drive 300 yards to the end of this street, go left and take your first hard right. As soon as we were on the “main drag” I asked:“Is this where you want to be?”“Yeah. How did you do that?” He was flabbergasted.“I don’t know. I’ve always had a good sense of direction. When I was in my 20s one of my housemates said I was ‘the Man with The Road-Map Eyes’.”“But how did you know this is where I wanted to end up?”“I don’t know. I sensed it, I guess.”“Amazing.”“Not really. I’ve been doing it all my life. It’s a matter of trust and surrender into something I think we all know. It’s like

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a muscle we don’t use much, as a species, I mean.”<h2 id="2045">Was I reading his mind or did I sense the direction?</h2>I would look at a map at the beginning of a trip and remember it as a big picture. When I was driving I’d look for visual cues that matched the map.Maybe he was wearing the picture of the road he wanted to be on outside his body, but I wasn’t looking at him to provide an answer because he was filled with mixed chaotic emotions. We had been on the road that he wanted to get to on another day. I knew the general direction of how to get there and I guessed or intuited it.I had been reading this piece <a href="https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/03/19/scientists-prove-that-humans-can-sense-earths-magnetic-field/">Scientists Prove That Humans Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field</a> when I remembered the adventure with my student in Seattle.Now there is a scientific basis for those of us who are keenly aware of spatial relations.©2021 F. K. Ontario</article></body>

Inner GPS

“Road-Map Eyes” and Connecting to Earth

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash

In April of 2008, a student invited me to come to see the Dali Lama in a five-day celebration in Seattle. We attended a few seminars and a dialog between the Dali Lama and Dave Matthews before thousands of people.

Lost and Found

My student drove me around in his BMW — we were taking a shortcut through a neighborhood where all the houses and streets looked the same. I hadn’t been paying close attention to where we were. I was idling gazing at the neighborhoods.

“We’re lost,” he said frustrated. I immediately looked at his GPS read-out.

“It’s not working,” he said irritated and embarrassed. “I guess we’re going to be late,” he said resigned to it all.

I shifted my position in the passenger’s seat and looked at the street.

“I think I can get you to where you want to go,” I said.

“Okay,” he was hesitant.

I gave him a series of directions, right, left, drive 300 yards to the end of this street, go left and take your first hard right. As soon as we were on the “main drag” I asked:

“Is this where you want to be?”

“Yeah. How did you do that?” He was flabbergasted.

“I don’t know. I’ve always had a good sense of direction. When I was in my 20s one of my housemates said I was ‘the Man with The Road-Map Eyes’.”

“But how did you know this is where I wanted to end up?”

“I don’t know. I sensed it, I guess.”

“Amazing.”

“Not really. I’ve been doing it all my life. It’s a matter of trust and surrender into something I think we all know. It’s like a muscle we don’t use much, as a species, I mean.”

Was I reading his mind or did I sense the direction?

I would look at a map at the beginning of a trip and remember it as a big picture. When I was driving I’d look for visual cues that matched the map.

Maybe he was wearing the picture of the road he wanted to be on outside his body, but I wasn’t looking at him to provide an answer because he was filled with mixed chaotic emotions. We had been on the road that he wanted to get to on another day. I knew the general direction of how to get there and I guessed or intuited it.

I had been reading this piece Scientists Prove That Humans Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field when I remembered the adventure with my student in Seattle.

Now there is a scientific basis for those of us who are keenly aware of spatial relations.