Origen taught that just as the body has five senses, the soul has five spiritual senses, by which it can see, hear, taste, smell and touch divine realities. The idea was taken up by Gregory of Nyssa, Bonaventure and Ignatius of Loyola, whose application of the senses in the Exercises draws on it.
Spiritual senses
The doctrine that the soul has inner senses, of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell, by which it perceives God.