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Flehmen & Your Possible 6th Sense by Mark Hatmaker


[The below is a brief sample from the The Suakhet'u Program —Our Indigenous Based Warrior Awareness Program.

The Program provides in-depth description of the practices, their use in cultural context, and how it was originally trained.

We demonstrate each practice/exercise with a step-by-step series that enables you to bring a bit of this lost wisdom into your own lives. 

Some practices border on the edges of “just beyond.” That is, when originally encountered by Western minds or confronted with little information the skills have been chalked up to something supernatural.

Some things are not so much supernatural as outside current context or simply misunderstood. To de-bunk the “supernatural” factor each practice will also provide the current state of research regarding how such “beyond” practices may in fact be not so much supernatural as highly trainable.

The below offering is a highly condensed version of the approach.

Where the “Training Hack” at the end of the offering is a mere two-sentences in the program itself it falls into a syncretic series where each drill/practice that precedes aids and bolsters the next and so on for reach step in the series.

Take nothing on hearsay.

I have been endlessly fascinated with this aspect of the Warrior tradition, there is something viscerally satisfying about working with some bit of old tradition and then one day realize that you can effortlessly determine direction by a simple glance at a rain puddle.

I look forward to sharing the material with other like-minded Warrior-Explorers.]

·        Flehmen-The word is the specific name for the odd sneer or grimace we sometimes see cats make when they stop, open their mouths, sniff the air and the eyes seem to go vacant or even close. What is occurring is they have been caught by a scent that they find particularly succulent—usually the urine marker of a cat of interest. Flehmen does not occur with unpleasant scents [in cat tastes, that is] despite to our human reference the facial expression reading as a “sneer.”

·        While in flehmen mode the cat’s tongue often arches to the roof of its mouth and may be even seen to lick the roof of the mouth to better “take in” what they are experiencing. The reason for the lick is the vomero-nasal or Jacobsen’s organ. It is about an inch-long tubal opening in the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth—it allows for a more intense combination of taste-smell.

·        It is so significantly different in use it is called a 6th sensory organ in the species that possess it. Humans have trace Jacobsen’s organs but as we moved more heavily into visual mode in our evolutionary history its activation atrophied. It is surmised some of the tracking/identification ability of some indigenous peoples are uses of the remnant Jacobsen’s organ that have not been ignored or stultified by disuse, ignorance of presence, or indifference.

·        Jacobsen’s Organ Hack-One can attempt to “awaken” their own Jacobsen’s Organ by sniffing the air, then tasting the air but in the tasting take an inhalation that uses the tongue to direct the air flow slowly over the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth. Use of strong-tasting foods or beverages [garlic, coffee, minted chewing gums, for example] and smoking will mask the efficacy of these re-awakening attempts. For complete details on how to awaken this response see here.
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