This is a fascinating book. Albert Soesman is an anthroposophical
doctor in Holland who offers workshops o­n the senses. His lively
approach leaves the reader little choice but to become fired with
enthusiasm for learning to understand the work of the twelve sense.
A note here: Most of us are much more familiar with the concept
of the "five senses," but few of us know that it is o­nly very recently
that it was more or less codified that five was the "correct" number
of human senses. In the earlier parts of this century, scientists
concerned with such things wrote wonderful discourses about the
existence of five, seven, nine, and eleven senses, depending upon
their viewpoint. Steiner's own initial viewpoint was that there were
ten physical senses plus three supersensible o­nes. Because this
discussion was not yet frozen in codified convention, he was able
to further refine his observations and ultimately arrived at twelve
senses as most accurately descriptive of human perceptive
capacity. We hope you enjoy learning about them as much
as we have.