Human navigation and the sixth sense ( magnetic).

Abstract

Following a century of controversy and disbelief, the author demonstrates how humans may possess a magnetic sense of direction by conducting trials which subject groups of people to the same kind of experiments that had previously been used to identify a similar sense in other animals. The experiments are described in detail, the experiences of city dwellers as well as aborigines are cited, and the implications of the similarities in human and animal behaviour are discussed. The use of the navigational mechanisms by men and women seems to vary. The possibilities of a disturbed or damaged magnetic sense should be taken into account when assessing clinical disorders. -J.Sheail