Nine Senses of Magic

**Nine Senses of Magic**, also known as the **Nine Stages of Magick**, is a concept believed by many Eastern magicians.

It believes that one's perception of magic, reality, and everything that surrounds it takes place through nine stages of the living conscience, which can also be defined as "**The Nine Senses**".

## The Nine Senses

### Five Senses

Every living being has **Five Sensory Senses**: Touch, hearing, taste, sight, and smell. These senses are the most basic way of understanding magic in its simplest form. These are the senses that Magic will basically affect on a given enemy, like illusions; hypnotic songs and fragrances; potions physical attacks, etc... In other words, these senses only feel how Magic works in every living being, not allowing Magic to be controlled as in the case of almost all living beings in reality. To gain that control, something else is needed...

### Sixth Sense

The **Sixth Sense**, also named the "**Surface Awakening of Magic**", that is, the ability to manipulate Magic in a superficial way, being historically understood as "the ability to perform miracles". Due to its superficial character, the control of magic occurs only while keeping a magic channeler in hand, often a wand, a staff, or a Grimoire.

The Sixth Sense involves integrating the five senses through the power of the mind, also allowing the magician to utilize the five senses to perform spells, such as draining life-force through touch or disarming enemies with a glance. Many bloodlines and lineages have a natural predisposition to the sixth sense.

### Seventh Sense

The **Seventh Sense** is also named by many as the "**Essence of Magic**". Upon reaching this stage, the magician will develop full control of Magic, being able to perform magic without any magic channeler or arcane assistance, as well as developing a hypersensitivity of the sensory senses, such as seeing beyond the visible light spectrum, hearing previously inaudible frequencies...

### Eighth Sense

It's from the **Eighth Sense** that the understanding of Magic reaches levels far beyond ordinary ability. The Eighth Sense is theoretically the ability to travel between other Planes of Existence, not to be mistaken for other dimensions/realms. If awakened in life, either by external forces or by own merit, the magician would become able to travel through the Existential Planes that are only possible through the Unconsciousness, such as through Astral Projection, transition to the dream plane, visions of the past and the future, among others...

This sense doesn't depend on the previous awakening of the previous ones. In addition, things like to be aware you're dreaming, near death experiences, see hauntings, and others like that are not just unconscious scratching on its surface and have no correlation to awake and have control on this sense.

### Ninth Sense

The **Ninth Sense** is believed to be the final stage of Magic Control, where the magician becomes Magic itself, and therefore, one with reality. Theoretically, whoever awakens this sense would become the Primordial Force That Originated the Universe, reaching a state of Supreme Existence, or in layman's terms, a "God"...

## Trivia

* The concept is created based on, or at least heavily influenced by, the concept of the Nine Consciousness from Buddhism, specifically in Nichiren Buddhism.
* It's a principle upon which several Magic-worshiping neo-religions are based upon.