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The human race stands at the threshold of remarkable change. Our technology is growing so fast that our planet, our bodies and even our minds are being reshaped by it. Unfortunately, our technology is changing so quickly that our ability to control how, when and where this reshaping takes place is diminishing. We are less the leaders of the future and more its slaves every day. We need to reassert ourselves as leaders and innovators - but that's easier blogged than done these days. How do we accomplish this? We've relied so much on outdated models of science and reality - models that no longer serve to wisely guide the course of our race - that it is hard to sort out what is fact and what is fiction any more. Take the existence of so-called psychic powers and abilities. Search the web and you'll find thousands of websites claiming to have evidence of psychic powers, and others that give you the means to unlock these powers within you. At the same time, you'll find many others that claim to debunk the whole existence of psychic powers to the realm of myth, fantasy and charlatans. Now I'm not a 'weigh the evidence and you decide' kind of guy. Science, much to the chagrin of many creationists out there, is NOT a democracy. Yes, there is resistance from the scientific community to study psychic phenomenon, but this is mostly due to the sheer number of times that charlatans claiming to have extreme manifestations of psychic ability have been proven to be false. At the same time, there is a sheer lack of common language used in hard science as compared to disciplines that cultivate these abilities. Take the word "energy". Science has a very specific definition of what energy is - it manifests as light, heat, sound or motion - but psychics use this word with a far more liberal meaning. Makes for a difficult time to communicate, and makes it even more difficult to sort out the fact from the fiction. So let's get right down to it then: scientists and psychics will both agree that there is a great deal of potential that we have yet to tap into. The big difference is that when we step into this strange realm, the scientist and the psychic will have a very different response. The scientist will downplay what has happened and will declare that the results were 'indeterminate'. The psychic, on the other hand, will build up the events, describing miracles of mythic proportions. The event or ability is no different, but the way it is perceived is very different. But exist they do: from Tibetan monks able to survive sub-freezing temperatures without protective clothing to miracles of healing, I'm happy to report that the unknown still exists. Try this: go to your favourite search engine and search for "project stargate". Ignore any sites pertaining to the movie or TV show (for now, we're working, neh?). What's left is a variety of websites talking about the now declassified projects that were run by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate the reality and potential military and espionage applications of psychic
phenomena. Go to BOTH a proponent website and a sceptic website - if the authors have been honest, they will both have a similar statistic: 13%. 13% is the reported statistical accuracy of the 'remote viewers' (clairvoyants that honed their skill to remotely view other locations of particular military significance). The proponent websites will exclaim how this is FAR greater than what one would expect from random guessing, while the sceptic websites will say exactly the opposite (that it was far LOWER than what one would expect by random guessing). So who is right? If we were hiding an apple or an orange in a box and asking people to 'remotely view' what was in the box (revealing the choices were an apple or an orange), then the statistical chance of guessing right would be 50%. By this comparison, 13% definitely sucks. However, if there is NO information of what could be found at a location, and there are thousands of possibilities of what could be found there, then 13% doesn't sound all that bad. Not what I would call a level of 'actionable intelligence', but one that certainly has potential. 13% says to me that our psychic or 'inner' technology shows promise, but is in a very infantile state. With time, and as our understanding of this science and the universe around us grows, so too will our psychic potential. As Arthur C Clarke predicted, "Any sufficiently advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic." Now I have not forgotten that this is a "how to" article, but I need to establish a common theoretical ground before I get into any mechanics. Try this: make a small pendulum using a piece of string and something small, like an eraser. Hold the pendulum over a piece of paper where you have drawn a straight line. Stare intently at the line on the paper as you hold the pendulum above it and you should find that shortly the pendulum will begin to swing along the line. Just to test, turn the page so that the line is at a different angle and repeat the test. Try the same test with a circle. In each case, you should find that the pendulum begins to swing or rotate in alignment with the line or circle you've drawn on the page. No, you have not discovered telekinesis (sorry, this ISN'T the 'how to' portion yet), you are experimenting with a psychological phenomena called the ideomotor reflex. Ideo (or 'idea') motor (movement) is a phenomena where the mind will create subtle unconscious changes in the body. Ironically, ideo-motor reflex is a phenomenon that fake psychics have exploited for centuries to create bogus displays of psychic power. But in the case of the pendulum, the focused intent on the line created subtle changes in your nervous and muscular system that in turn got the pendulum swinging in alignment with the line or circle. But here's the interesting part - try the pendulum experiment again, but instead of focusing on the line, try to swing the pendulum in alignment on purpose (without moving your hand). A bit harder isn't it? If you are successful (most aren't, so don't feel bad if you don't), you'll agree that accomplishing this was much harder, and took a lot more effort than simply focusing on the line. Martial Artists have used this principle for centuries to cultivate incredible power, momentum and leverage. In breaking boards or blocks for example, the martial artist looks NOT at the hard object in front of him, but imagines the force of his strike moving through the object - as if his hand or foot held a kind of 'energy' (there's that word again) that breaks the object. When throwing a larger
opponent, a martial artist looks not at the size of the opponent (which would paralyse his attempt), but imagines an invisible 'connection' that allows him to effortlessly toss his opponent as if he or she were weightless. The point is not to argue whether the energy or invisible connection exists or not, but to acknowledge that using these ideas allows us to do things that we otherwise could not do - or if we did, we would do so with far more effort. The whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. In the same way, we can learn how to develop psychic power. At the same time, we can avoid the trap of becoming so converted into 'psychic thinking' that we forget to apply a bit of logic and healthy scepticism - which is necessary to properly develop this technology. The first gate to developing psychic power that you will find in just about every system or teacher out there is through meditation. Meditation is the most basic and common form of inner cultivation and awareness. Contrary to popular belief, it is not something reserved for ancient Eastern temples or self-help seminars. Meditation is natural and simple, yet is one of the most difficult skills to master. Still, mastery is not necessary to begin reaping the benefits of meditation. In fact, two minutes of simple meditation can increase your efficiency and effectiveness by as much as 33% bringing into harmonious alignment the mind, body and breath. The current catch phrase of this 'harmonious alignment' is called the 'mind/body connection' in the healthy lifestyle media. As odd as this may sound, it is really just about resetting things to a more natural state; erasing the illusionary boundaries, as it were, between the mind and the body. At the truly psychic level, this is also about erasing the illusionary boundaries between the body and the world around us... but that's a far deeper topic that's beyond the scope of a simple 'how to' article. About 2500 years ago, Greek philosophers set the foundation of modern thinking (and thereby modern perception) of, well just about everything Western. One of these was in placing a border between the mind and the body, as if these things were naturally separate. I believe that this is why a lot of the Eastern Teaching seems strange and enigmatic - even hokey - to modern readers (from wherever they were born, Western scientific thought has pretty much permeated across the globe). Eastern Philosophers never MADE this separation. To them, the mind was the body and the body was the mind, and never-you-mind where one ends and the other begins. It's why even something so simple as breathing in Eastern texts takes on a strange and metaphysical demeanour: they are NOT just talking about the physical act of drawing oxygen from the air and taking into the blood stream from the air. They are describing something that is as much imaginative as it is biological, as much mind as it is body, without any attempt to separate one from the other. Research has also found that the mind, like the muscles of our body, can be conditioned and trained. The skill of meditation practice, that is the skill at bringing our mind into the immediate time and place, gets easier the more you practice. It will allow you to more fully access your capabilities and to be able to do so effortlessly. That's very important -there isn't any special state or magic enlightenment place you are waiting to attain. So there is no need to struggle or endure. You just need to do it, and enjoy the process. Even if you're doing this 100% right, and are a seasoned practitioner of meditation, you may be surprised to know that on average this perfect state of mind/body synergy lasts for only about
seven seconds on average. The difference between a seasoned and skilled meditator and a novice is that the master becomes distracted only for a second, then returns to this state, while the novice get stuck with thoughts like "hey, I was doing it... I was MEDITATING! Oh shoot! Now I'm not! I'm not supposed to be thinking about this, I'm just supposed to be present! Darn it, I'm still thinking about this!!..." And so on. The novice meditator is kind of like a kid on Christmas eve trying to go to sleep before Santa Claus arrives. There are THREE Principles of Meditation. They are: 1.Posture: You don't need to sit in a full (or even half) lotus position... or on your head, or any other way that is uncomfortable. While there are schools of meditation that teach a form where the meditator is lying down; I don't recommend it. It's too easy to get SO relaxed that you fall asleep... and then you're not really mediating anymore. Just sit comfortably, maintaining a relaxed yet upright posture. Good posture is important because as you are sitting, you don't want to have the need to shift around to stay comfortable. That just becomes another distraction from what we are trying to do. Your eyes should be closed (again to remove distractions) but not too tightly. It's even OK if you can see a sliver of light or colour at the bottom of your eye-lids. 2.Breathing: we will discuss breathing in more detail below in the Basic Meditation techniques, but meditative breathing should be slow, relaxed and deep. Breathe as though each breath were a sip of fine wine that you want to savour for as long as possible, yet don't be so greedy that the process becomes uncomfortable. 3.Control: "Thoughts are like children," my teacher said, "ignore them, and they will get louder." Accept that there will be errant thoughts and natural waves of the mind - don't try to FORCE them out, just acknowledge them and allow them to naturally drift away. This is control. Don't be discouraged by having to do this over and over again - it's the process of doing exactly that that meditation practice is all about. You become more focused and powerful with each return from distraction. These basic principles are common to all forms of meditation. Almost every culture in the world has some form of meditation - some requiring nothing but an open mind, others utilizing everything from bells and incense, mantras, poems, or riddles... even waterfalls. There are even more exotic forms that contain very esoteric religious significance, but the basic root of what they are doing is as described above. If you want to cultivate your inner resources, becoming more intuitive, creative, energized and even psychic, this is the place to start. As simple as this is, it's not. It takes practice, and it takes patience. However, that doesn't mean you should start meditating for hours at a time to achieve these things sooner. At the beginning, I don't recommend meditating for more than five minutes at a time (or if you're really 'in the zone' no more than 15). Why? Because too much is not a good thing. It's like walking into a gym the first day and trying to bench press 300 lbs. Not only will you likely hurt yourself, your injury will mean it's going to take LONGER to get to that illustrious goal. Now you can't literally hurt yourself with meditating, but meditating for long periods when you're not used to it is only going to put you in a state where your mind is board and easily distracted. Worse, you may become so jaded at the long practices that you will forgo shorter practices when
long periods of time are not available, and avoid the long practices because they are so boring and distracting. But it is this constant practice that will cultivate your psychic power and awareness. From here, there are a lot of great resources both on and offline that will help (there is no possible way that a full accounting of harvesting psychic power can be included in a single article). But as you explore them, don't forget about the basics, keep an open mind and a dose of healthy scepticism.
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