Colin Wilson11 speaks of “a kind of mental eye,” and again of his “real ‘I ’ ” which he distinguishes from his self. Others have similarly recognized this lost sense: Theodore Reik’s “Third Ear,is a clear example. Alan Watts13 seems to be pointing toward a similar inward knowing in many of his writings. Erich Fromm14 traces the path by which we lose the acuity of our inner sense: