[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.]
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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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