Where the understanding circuit group is about sharing a pattern, the sensing circuit group is about sharing an experience. The first is logical, the second is abstract. The understanding circuit group is centered around the instincts of the spleen and thus is about finding patterns that continue our survival (think science). The sensing circuit, however, is centered around the solar plexus, our emotional center, so it is about continuing our emotional growth through experience.

This circuit group is where you share your feelings. It is where you share your experiences. And this can get very messy. What is shared is not logical, so it does not have to make sense, but it does need to be something that can be shared with another person (think anthropology or literature). It is in this circuit that we collect and share the experience of being alive.

The Sensing Circuit is actually the force of evolution itself. Without the abstract process we would not evolve as human beings in the way that we have. It is our journey through all the possibilities of life, and therefore it is the most human of all circuitry.

The fact that it is so human also means that it is the frailest process. In this circuit there is no true awareness that we can rely on. The solar plexus is never aware in the now. Only upon reflection and after some time can some level of clarity be reached. But even then the clarity is not 100%. So there is neither stability nor security here. There is only the endless progression of possibilities to be explored. And yet it is through this experiential way that we discover the validity of our past. This is the circuit that gives birth to what we call history.

Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever. ~ Source Unknown ~

It is a great art to be able to condense the past in such as way that it can be shared in the now and illuminate the future. It is one of the most special things about being human. It’s not as though every child that is born has to begin from scratch when it enters the world. We all benefit from whatever human history we have access to, which greatly speeds up our learning process.

These days, the collective human experience is moving faster and faster because we have a far greater capacity to store information. We now have this capacity to be able to store enormous amounts of history and to be able to pass it on. All of this is the result of the circuitry of the Sensing Circuit. It is deeply impersonal. It is simply about the collective experiential way.