Is it possible that these preconceived thoughts hinder our progress? We have already seen how skepticism about parapsychology has slowed down our understanding of its potential applications. Very few people like to admit that they are wrong. Although we sometimes jump to hasty conclusions,and although our preconceived ideas often lack a solid basis in fact, we become their most ardent defenders as soon as someone tries to convince us they may be false. In many cases it isn’t the ideas themselves we are defending, but our own love of self.
The same thing applies to negative opinions we hold about ourselves.For a long time I maintained a highly negative self image. Whenever I had trouble with my homework, for example, I would immediately conclude that ‘… I could never understand, I’d never succeed.’ Of course that would only make the work that much more difficult, and I’d often end up in tears, to the alarm of my parents.
Interestingly enough, drinking a cup of coffee just before an exam changed all that. It was like a revelation! I had never used any drugs or stimulants before, so the caffeine (or the idea I had formed about what caffeine could do) had an extraordinary effect on my mind: in a few seconds I came up with the solution to a difficult math problem. I completed the test in a third of the time allotted to us, and got a brilliant mark and the congratulations of my professor and parents.
From that day on, I began searching for natural ways to recreate that state of mental alertness that had enabled me to instinctively discover the solution to the exam problem. I have found quite a few over the years. What people call creativity, intuition, or extra sensory perception (ESP) are states that seem to me to be very closely linked. All are at the opposite end of the spectrum of what we generally label ‘ordinary experience.’
In modern society, most individuals are occupied with activities that could be categorized as practical. This is done out of ignorance, or because people are tricked into believing they must devote all their time to practical matters. Being weak minded, they submit to the influences of the environment in which they find themselves.
Some people, on the other hand, are aware that they are being manipulated by big business, politics, culture mongers, and so on.to-day responsibilities that we rarely have an opportunity to make full use ofour intelligence and / or imagination. We see young executives fresh out of university, brimming with new and exciting ideas, slowly fade as they are worn down by the rigid demands of the companies they work for. Their natural psychic abilities are soon extinguished by the grinding routine they have to put up with.
Trying to find ways to liberate these latent abilities, or at least those which seem useful and positive, is what this book is all about. I searched through libraries and bookstores for existing material, mostly in vain. Some works contained hints of a possible method. None were written in terms that could be easily understood by everyone – the obscure, highly pedagogical language that was used tended to lead the reader into an endless series of sterile conjecture. Most books seemed to be a blend of simplistic ideologies, useless beliefs and unsatisfactory explanations of various phenomena. None were balanced and objective: authors either doubted everything, or believed everything at face value.
We need a method in which our western way of thinking, that serves as a bridge between what is familiar and what appears to be strange and unusual. The subject matter would be a description of the methods of personal psychological and parapsychological development that has been discovered and practiced over the years.
One such method – Mental Dynamics – to gained insight into how the integration of intuition and other para-normal faculties in our day-to-day lives could provide the balance that our personalities seemed to lack.
Constantly suppressing parts of ourselves that cannot logically be explained creates tremendous tension on a subconscious level. The self-critical attitudes drilled into us by our rationalistic education system can be counter- balanced by an understanding of these special powers, adding a new dimension to our existence.
As such, developing our paranormal faculties can largely contribute to abolishing the traditional conditioning we have all been subjected to, concerning matters like time, space, language and thought, freeing our mind of its limitations, doubts and anxieties. In that sense, investigating your own paranormal abilities represents a great step towards attaining real freedom.
The voyage is about to begin. Why not come along and discover what lies on the other side of the ocean of your being, at the very heart of your inner self
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