While I don’t know how or why you discovered this book, I suspect you experienced something extraordinary. If this is correct, then it is a dream come true for me as an author and fellow seeker. I began a similar journey to understand the unexplainable and found little in the way of science back then. What could be labeled as supernatural, I knew on a deeper level, was an innate part of the human condition. Now I consider it an honor to have a title in the canon of books published on topics like intuition and empathy. I didn’t know at the start of my own search that it would transform into a lifelong odyssey. The upshot of realizing you are just one minor character in a much longer story, one that may seem more like an Homeric epic, are the colorful people you encounter, their place in your journey, and how they move you along the path of destiny.

If you find a piece of your own story within these pages, arm yourself with knowledge and recognize that all great mysteries have maddening and unsolvable elements. The phenomena written about in this book have serious real-world implications. Sensitivity and its powerful effects have caused divorce and driven obsessions. Even so, some elusive elements of sensitivity have a tendency to create an unwavering curiosity as you find new clues and breakthroughs along the way. Inevitably, as you draw closer to what you feel is an answer, a thousand different questions spring up in its place like a hydra. While this book could be considered a recitation on the origins of the gifts of sensory intelligence (empathy, intuition, vision, and expression) it is also a bridge into the future. Science fiction morphs into science fact before your eyes.