Commonsense
See what is there.Awareness, environment, observation and practical security.
The original book
Powers of theSixth
Sense
How to Remain Safe
in a Hostile World
The original book exploring awareness, intuition and the signals that may warn us before conscious reasoning catches up.
First published in 2007, Powers of the Sixth Sense brought together real-world experience, case material and practical observations to examine a deceptively simple question:
What if the warning comes before the evidence?
Important questions.
A safer tomorrow.
The architecture of the original book
Awareness before interpretation.
The book does not begin with psychic development. It begins with the practical work of noticing what is present, understanding what may follow and deciding what deserves attention.
Risk
Recognize what could happen.Threat appraisal, personal protection and danger recognition.
Intuition
Pay attention to what you cannot yet explain.Intuitive experience, dreams, anomalous perception and inner knowing.
Accounts described in the book
The sixth sense
in the real world.
The original edition draws from personal experience, training exercises and accounts supplied by others. They are presented as material for inquiry—not as interchangeable forms of scientific evidence.
The meeting that never happened
Before a planned meeting during an undercover operation, a sequence of disruptions was accompanied by a powerful sense of unease. The book asks what such moments mean when caution proves consequential.
The twelve-women exercise
An awareness exercise involving concealed participants tested whether perceived threat could be noticed without ordinary visual confirmation. It is described as an experience, not controlled proof.
A warning on the road
Accounts from William Bloom consider intuitive impressions arising during motorcycle travel—and the consequences of responding to them before their meaning was clear.
Why I wrote the book
Two worlds had always been part of my life.
One was practical: security, martial arts, threat, awareness and survival.
The other was more difficult to define: those moments when we seem to know something before we can explain how we know it.
I called much of that the sixth sense. I have spent the years since asking harder questions about what is actually happening in those moments.
“This is a book you must read.”
William Bloom
Author of Soulution
“Superbly written from the heart of a true warrior.”
Dr. John C. Enger
Law enforcement officer
“A good reference text and an easy read.”
David Moyle
New Connexion Magazine
Original edition
Powers of the Sixth Sense
How to Remain Safe in a Hostile World
- Author
- Jock Brocas
- First published
- O Books, 2007
- ISBN
- 978-1-84694-075-0
Powers of the
Sixth SenseNew edition
in development
Sixth SenseNew edition
in development
The inquiry never ended.
A new edition is coming.
Nearly two decades have passed since the original book appeared. During that time my understanding of intuition, consciousness, anomalous experience, psychology and the way we interpret information has changed considerably.
I have also changed.
I am returning to Powers of the Sixth Sense with questions I could not have asked when I first wrote it.
This time, I intend to write the book I originally wanted to write.Follow the New Edition
Updates will be published through Compass & Signal.