Something very
important here. The effort to produce
the desired effect stresses the mind.
This allows a trigger event to open the door to the subconscious to
exercise the desired effect itself. It
must be operated by the subconscious independent of the controlling conscious
mind whose task is to produce the potential itself. This is very subtle.
Conscious or even
subconscious rejection makes it very difficult.
Thus it is more than reasonable that the mind that is mostly faith
driven must do better. This explains why
a clear physical phenomena remains poorly investigated although that is
changing.
You really do have to believe
it exist in order for it to properly manifest itself.
Developing
Your Unseen Powers: A Practical Guide
March
17, 2014
Brendan D. Murphy,
Repeated ignorant or
stubborn denial of the existence of certain powers does not keep them from
existing – except for us!
~ Harold
M. Sherman, psychic
Everyone has some level of innate intuitive
capability, as has been demonstrated repeatedly over several decades of
experiments by the parapsychological community through tens of thousands of
trials utilising thousands of regular people with no known or presupposed
psychic gifts. (That is to say nothing, of course, of those many successful
experiments carried out with people having well established reputations for
performing “paranormal” feats.)
While some people are born with obvious psychic talents,
most of us have to invest time and effort over the long-term in order to
develop them from their latent state. In this article we will look at some
guidelines and relevant principles for unblocking and developing your innate
intuitive abilities.
Open Your Mind &
Eliminate Closed Ones
Have you ever noticed how closed-minded
sceptics (CMS) rarely if ever have any experiences with thesiddhis (psychic faculties) or
“the paranormal” in general? Soviet research into psychokinesis involving Nina
Kulagina demonstrated qualitatively that a sceptic’s mere presence has an
effect on a psychic’s ability to function properly. Hence, with a CMS (or
several) in the room or otherwise involved in the experiment, a psychic is more
likely to “fail,” thus “proving” the CMS right (at least in his own narrow
reality tunnel). It is merely a case of self-fulfilling prophecy. Thus,
regarding your own psi abilities what you believe is true, to a large extent –
and unfortunately the presence of non-believers nearby or within the
experimental setup can be detrimental.
Dr. Valerie Hunt’s research in Infinite Mind showed
a correlation between electromagnetic auric frequencies and the “level” of
consciousness occupied by the individual. Healers, mediums and mystics show
higher frequencies in their electromagnetic fields than others not of those
categories, illustrating that those possessed of “higher” consciousness are, in
some sense, literally “on a higher frequency.” Those fixated on or believing
solely in “material reality” exhibited lower dominant frequencies and were
bereft of the higher.
In fact, gamma
frequencies in the brain of 40-100 Hertz
– the highest of the better known bands of brainwave frequencies (the higher
band being Lambda, reaching up to about 200 Hz1) – have been linked to the ability to manifest intention
in the world. Gamma states represent the brain in
hyperdrive, working at its most intensity. “This oscillation is conducive
to creating links across many
parts of the brain,”2 facilitating
an integrated whole-brain state. Paradoxically, the extreme high and low ends
of the brainwave spectrum have the same states of consciousness associated with
them, and different oscillations can be present at once in different parts of
the same brain.3
To illustrate, Russian psychokinetic (PK) psi
star Nina Kulagina (1926–1990) – who, under controlled experimental conditions,
could (among other things) separate an egg yoke from the white from a distance
of 6 feet while it floated in a saline solution using only her intention –
exhibited low frequency theta brainwaves of 4 Hz – normally associated with a
deeply relaxed trance – whilst simultaneously showing extreme physiological
agitation/arousal, including a pulse rate of 240 bpm. These strenuous efforts
left her absolutely exhausted, and temporarily blind on that particular
occasion.4
Perhaps all of the above explains why
Kulagina’s PK abilities “worked better in an atmosphere of friendly mutual
trust and belief” – PK, as we know, generally requires intense states of physiological
arousal and higher frequency brainwave activity, all of which drains large
reserves of bioenergy. PK is a higher brain function. Kulagina experienced less
stress when working alone and it was said that her PK ability was
mood-dependent (both her own mood and that of the observers) and expended more
energy in a hostile or sceptical atmosphere5 (where the local consciousness fields would have
been less coherent). Hostile sceptics have something of an innate psi- or
consciousness-damping effect; they literally operate at a lower frequency,
their mind fields interfering with those of the test subject (and even the
target). The fact that separate minds interact via measurable electromagnetic
fields (and some not-so-measurable fields) has been proven by Hunt and others,
and I detail much of this research in The Grand Illusion (TGI).
Negativity causes chaos and/or
entropy in the personal and local ambient energy fields, whereas positivity,
gratitude, or love – heart-based emotions – cause coherence, beauty and order
– just look at the instances of saints and yogis whose dead bodies have
remained impervious to decay for weeks, months, and even years!6 This is worth
considering before any psi endeavour where you intend to act as a receiver of
information. Firstly, open-mindedness is a bare minimum requirement (confidence
and trust in the process is even better). Additionally, being in a state of
peaceful heart-based coherence is likely to enhance receptive abilities. In
combination with deliberate intention, this has been shown to also be enough to
wind and unwind DNA samples at will in laboratory conditions, with powerful
implications for self-healing possibilities (see TGI).
In 1942 psychologist and parapsychologist
Gertrude Schmeidler initiated her infamous “sheep-goat” experiments, designed
to test whether belief and open-mindedness would enhance psi function in
contrast to scepticism. Two groups, “sheep” who believed in or were simply open
to psi, and “goats” who did not believe it could happen for them under test
conditions (but were not hostile to the possibility of it happening to or for
other people), were put through identical standard controlled Extrasensory
Perception (ESP) tests. The outcome indicated that believers in the possibility
of ESP scored better than those who did not: the disbelievers scored lower,
ergo belief is a legitimate variable mediating psi functions.7 “A meta-analysis by
[psychologist Tony Lawrence], covering 73 experiments by 37 different researchers,
clearly confirms that subjects who believe in psi obtain, on the average,
higher results than those who do not believe in it.”8
American psychic and author Harold Sherman
(1898–1987) had noted in the early 1940s that while it is possible to receive
thought impressions from a sceptic, it is extremely difficult for someone of
that mindset to act as receiver.9 Sherman,
who was ahead of his time, explained that telling yourself with certitude
there is no such thing as psi is tantamount to instructing your subconscious
mind to shut down the psi faculties so they do not operate for you.10 In a dream-like reality
such as ours, it pays to be open-minded – especially if you want to be more intuitive.
Meaning, Emotion,
Need, Novelty & Other Factors in Psi
Need, novelty, and emotion have long been
known to play a part in psi phenomena. Carl Jung (1875–1961)
– the originator of the theory of psychological archetypes – noted with
interest that the English medium Eileen Garrett fared poorly in
parapsychologist J.B. Rhine’s card-guessing experiments because she was unable
to conjure any feelings for Rhine’s “soulless” test-cards.11 Much experimentation
has also shown that psi effects have a tendency to start out higher in the
initial stages of testing and then drop off as the participants lose interest
and boredom sets in (the “decline effect”).
Charles Tart actually went so far as stating
that card-guessing experiments are, ironically, “a technique for extinguishing
[psi] in the laboratory,” that is, they bore the subjects into a decline
effect.12 Rhetorically,
Sherman asked how he could possibly be expected to get excited over five
abstract symbols that had nothing to do with his emotional system or that of
the sender (they lacked meaning/personal
significance or relevance).13
Biologist and author Lyall Watson notes
in Supernature that
the most effective telepathic messages generally are bound up in trauma and
crisis – and we see plenty of evidence to that effect in The Grand Illusion Vol. 1. He
continues to explain that it makes sense biologically, since states of
well-being and pleasure produce no sense of urgency – such information can be
leisurely conveyed by the “normal” channels. However, for alarm signals to be
of real use, they have to travel the fastest way possible.14 That “way” is
superluminally/nonlocally. Much as Cleve Backster’s plants could detect the
death of bacteria and brine shrimp nearby, our human telepathic connections
must – even if only subliminally – serve a biological imperative, helping us
survive and propagate as a species by sensing and avoiding danger.
The limbic system, which includes the amygdala
and hippocampus, is considered today to be the emotional centre in the brain,
as well as the seat of our survival instinct. We might therefore suppose that
life-threatening events, usually being highly emotionally charged, might ignite
the temporal lobe and related structures in the brain into downloading nonlocal
psi information from the vacuum/aether. Dr. Melvin Morse believes humans have a
sixth sensory ability located
“within” the right temporal lobe, hippocampus, and related limbic structures.
According to him, this region “interprets information obtained through
communication with an interactive universe,” and allows for telepathic
communication with other people through their right temporal lobes. “It
involves perception of other realities.” He states that we perceive the
operation of the right temporal lobe as “intuition.”15
In 1889 a committee of psychical researchers
began a five-year project of compiling what they named a Report on the Census
of Hallucinations – the first major research effort of the English Society for
Psychical Research, featuring 410 data collectors. The committee included Henry
and Eleanor Sidgwick, Alice Johnson, arch-sceptic Frank Podmore, and the
esteemed Frederick Myers. Out of the 17,000 responses, 2,273 people reported
having had “hallucinations” (psi experiences). Tellingly, most occurred in a
crisis, usually a death crisis, signifying the importance of emotion, need, and
above all, meaning in
paranormal events.16 These
were some of the earliest scientific results illustrating nonlocal correlations
between well-acquainted (meaningfully connected) people.
Aside from raw emotion, biological threats to
loved ones (or oneself), and so on, another factor conducive to psi is simply
novelty. Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff in their scientific remote viewing
research in the 1970s found that the more difficult and challenging a remote
viewing (RV) task they devised for test subjects, the more likely the results
were to be good. They, too, observed a need-serving theme in their RV research
at Stanford (see Chapter 12 of TGI). As a result of consistently challenging
and interesting tests and protocols (with the added benefits of feedback and
encouragement), they found that their subjects actually improved their psi performance
over time, in contrast to Rhine’s and others’ results with card-guessing and
other repetitious and dull forms of testing, where decline effects were often
observed.
In Sherman’s view, the absence of a strong or
even an ordinary emotional factor is the greatest handicap in any psychic
endeavour. Since his pioneering long-distance telepathy experiment with Sir
Hubert Wilkins decades ago (detailed in New Dawn 136 and Chapter 11 of TGI), much data has
accumulated indicating there is a great deal of truth in this. The stronger the
emotional charge, the greater the likelihood that psi data will penetrate from
the “subconscious” to the conscious mind.
It is well known by occultists that
emotionally charged events are more likely to impress themselves, inadvertently
or otherwise, on the mind of another than are events with little emotional
content. In occult terms, this interaction beyond the standard space-time realm
is occurring via the astral plane/octave – the home of emotion. The more
strongly the plasma-like astral body/field (or mind-field) can be made to
vibrate in response to emotional content, the more likely the relevant data
penetrates through from the subconscious to the conscious level of awareness.
When sleep is involved, the conditions seem to be even more conducive to
accidental telepathic contact, as it is an altered state of consciousness
(theta and delta brainwave states) that opens us up to the frequencies of the
astral or even mental planes while simultaneously eliminating most data/noise
from the physical senses.
Undoubtedly, much “paranormal
phenomena” (including poltergeist phenomena, PK, and
telepathy) can be linked to strong emotional content. There are indications
that what we experience as presentiment or precognition may be, in some sense,
the strong emotional content of a probable “future” event (which is actually
occurring in a parallel universe in present time, along with all our “past” and
“future” lives) then filtering “back” through time into our subconscious or
even conscious awareness. (See Chapter 12 of TGI.)
Hypnosis
Hypnosis can aid our ability to peer into
these “future” events and timelines. The young actress Irene Muza was in a
hypnotic trance when she was asked if she could see what awaited her in her
future. She wrote that her career would be short and her death would be
“terrible,” though she dared not specify how she would die. The experimenters
erased what Muza had written before bringing her out of the trance so she would
not see it. She therefore had no conscious knowledge of what she had written.
Some months later, however, in 1909, her prediction of a short career and
terrible death was unexpectedly fulfilled when her hairdresser allowed some
drops of an antiseptic lotion made of mineral essences to fall on a lighted
stove, instantly enveloping Muza in flames. Her hair and clothing set alight,
she was severely burned and tragically died in hospital a few hours later.17
Hypnosis has been successfully employed for
psychokinetic purposes as well. Take American Ted Serios, the “thoughtographer”
born in 1918 who could create colour pictures on unexposed film simply through
sheer will and intention while he stared into the lens of a Polaroid camera.
His talent grew out of a DIY hypnosis experiment with a friend (a fellow
bellhop at the Chicago Conrad Hilton Hotel) who instructed Serios under
hypnosis that he could take photos of the contents of his mind. And thereafter,
so he could – somewhat erratically, mind you. (Serios was tested extensively
under controlled conditions.)
Interestingly, Serios had to work himself
virtually into a state of rage to be effective during these experiments.
Notably, Israeli “paranormalist” Uri Geller has been able to achieve similar
feats, taking photos of himself on high-speed black and white film through a
solid black lens cap. Dr. Chris Humphrey explains this is due to quantum tunnelling:
if the quantum de Broglie probability wave exists on both sides of a barrier,
then its particle (photons in this case) can sometimes be on one side, and
sometimes on the other, without ever passing through the barrier.18
PK: Set Your Intent,
Let Go & “Let God”
During his first stay at the Stanford Research
Institute (SRI – now Stanford Research Institute International), Ingo Swann
worked on experiments with physicist Hal Puthoff, who was making forays into
researching psi ability. This example demonstrates that we can and do interact
with matter via our minds, whether we intend to consciously or not (and even
under pressure and in the presence of sceptics in this case).
On the evening of the 6th of
June 1972, Swann was asked to try to influence a magnetometer located in the
basement, which he was duly escorted down to, with one catch: the magnetometer
– inside a quark detector, in actual fact – was buried under five feet of
concrete underneath his feet, and thus invisible to him. What was visible to the extremely
chagrined Swann (who was not forewarned by Puthoff of the nature of the
experiment) was a chart recorder with its pen slowly tracing out a graceful
wavy line. It was “monitoring the magnetic stability of the magnetometer and
had been doing so for some weeks without any change in the rhythmic
fluctuations,” Swann recalls. “The whole of this contraption was encased in an
aluminium container and insulating copper canister. As well, it was in a
supercooled, hence superconducting shield.” The Josephson junction inside the
detector would detect any variation of magnetic flux in the supercooled
equipment and the effect would show up as a change in the steady sine wave
recording on the chart which they could all see.
Swann started “probing” mentally to see if he
could identify the expensive underground device, and when he sensed some
“metallic differences” he tried to affect them, stating so as he went along.
With all eyes glued on the sine wave, Swann attempted several times to perturb
the well-shielded system, but to no avail. Insisting that he could see something, Swann proposed that
sketching it out might assist the process. When no paper could be found to draw
on, Puthoff suggested he draw directly onto the chart paper. “So I sketched a
this, and then a that: ‘Is this the Josephson junction?’ I asked. ‘If so, I
think I can see it quite well’.”
With that comment, the ink pen gave a tiny
jerk, and then stopped momentarily.
Then it lifted up above its previous pattern, and “somewhat above this it wobbled
along for no less than about TEN SECONDS – long enough for two wavy line
intervals to have occurred.”19
The point here is that when the distortion in
the sine wave took place Swann was not trying
to affect the equipment – he was simply trying to sketch what he could see with
his mind’s eye. In those moments where his volitional mind was distracted and
his goal momentarily suspended, the desired outcome occurred effortlessly. In
laboratory tests with PK in ordinary people (Swann is known to be a gifted psychic,
though more in the realm of remote viewing than PK), effects often fail to
appear until the subject has
their attention diverted.20 This
is something that astral traveller Sylvan Muldoon wrote of some 80 years ago,
explaining that charging the mind with desire or intent creates “stress” for
which the mind seeks an outlet or release via a part of the subconscious he
called the cryptoconscious Will: “Then [it] gets a chance to work on the
‘stress,’ and that which you had given up trying to attain ‘materialises’!”21
Tips for Development
·
Open your mind to the possibility that psi can
work for you
·
Believe in yourself
·
Operate in a peaceful state of heart-based
coherence for receptive psi (such as receiving a telepathic signal)
·
Remove yourself from distractions and hostile
or sceptical parties whose chaotic energy fields may negatively influence your
own
·
Meditate for psi development (the more the
better). If you can participate in a group of people with a mutual interest in
their perceptual development, then all the better. I used to attend a trance
mediumship group – not necessarily because I wanted to “channel,” but it did
accelerate my clairvoyant development. The coherent group energy will heighten
and refine your own through a “quantum additive” effect, accelerating your
development. When I stopped attending the group my nascent clairvoyant
faculties unfortunately regressed back to square one.
·
For PK, a less passive, more aroused state of
heightened emotion may be desirable. If you want to bend spoons or change the
weather it might help to get fired up!
·
Eliminate psi-negative
beliefs at the conscious level by being well
informed on the reality of the psi faculties (reading my book TGI 1 will definitely achieve
that goal).
·
Eliminate subconscious negative (psi-blocking) beliefs through
techniques such as Psyche-K and perhaps also EFT.
·
Try letting go and “getting out of the way.”
Sometimes your intention has a way of manifesting when you direct your
attention on to something else, or, as some have put it, when you “let go and
let God.” Try setting your intention, letting the thought go, and trusting that
the deed will be done.
·
A slightly different tactic: be grateful in
advance that your attempt has already been
successful. “All great masters know in advance that the deed has been done.”
The aether/vacuum doesn’t “do” linear time. It only “knows” the present moment.
Thus, what is true for you in the present is what will continually present
itself to you until that truth changes.
·
If you want to design experiments or tests for
receptive/perceptual psi, find ways to make it novel, interesting, and
meaningful to you personally. Avoid boredom at all costs!
·
Practise some form of pranayama (yogic breathing)
on a daily basis for maximal development of your health and psychic faculties.
·
You can read
more about this subject matter in Brendan Murphy’s new book The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis Of
Science And Spirituality – Book 1, available for purchase at www.brendandmurphy.net.
·
Footnotes:
·
3. Extraordinary
States.
·
4. L. Watson, Supernature,
Coronet Books, Hodder Paperbacks Ltd, 1974, 139-40.
·
5. J.D. LaMoth & L.F. Maire III (Defence Intelligence
Agency), Soviet and
Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research, 1975.
·
6. See B.D. Murphy, The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science & Spirituality Vol. 1,
Balboa Press, 2013.
·
7. I. Swann, Dr.
Gertrude Schmeidler,
·
10. Thoughts
Through Space, xxi.
·
13. Thoughts
Through Space, 129.
·
14. Supernature,
260.
·
19. I. Swann, The
Varian Hall of Physics,
·
20. Supernature,
op. cit., 151-2.
·
About the Author
·
BRENDAN D. MURPHY is the author of the critically
acclaimed epic The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, Vol. 1, and a contributing writer for several popular
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