Commentary to this:
Sry for English not being my native language, but
I also think some psychic powers are real, but I think that author of this article has not been in touch with most writings about psychic powers. I try to fill the gap.
First - most psychic powers are tightly connected with our subconscious minds and larger networks of consciousness; effects of psychic powers are not the kinds of things you can produce at any given moment with 100% certainty, but they rather occur seemingly randomly - even to psychic herself.
This has a strong support from literature:
- In Christianity, visions are thought to be given by God - you can be a saint, a person with opened eyes, however we could call it, but it's basically a God's decision, when to give some hint to you. Hints, anyway, can be very direct and without doubt. It's simple to see, after reading some literature, that both Buddhist and Christian events are the same - just, Buddhists wont talk about God, but they say that it's indescribable, what one would see after enlightenment.
- In Buddhism like zen-buddhism it's well known that you can meditate as much as you will, but both satoris and enlightenments occur at random time, being not under your control. Common form is satoris, which mostly reveal some hidden things about nature, your life or anything, which you can then use. The life as such enlightened person is not a kind of life, where you use your powers randomly at will - rather the situations of synchronicity happen in their own logic (or illogic) and you can gather some data from those.
This is clear that some psychic powers become relatively consistent over time - just to disappear whenever you do the wrong move. An area of mind, which is responsible for psychic powers, is not having the same everyday logic with our conscious ego - it's leading our powers with it's own logic and only way to "control" it for ego is to get in tune with it; this means rather following. Notably, this higher self can not be seduced with money or even strong pain to carrier - psychic feels it's as working in good of her and others, but it's still not at all willing to give psychic anything she might want; even not the millions discussed in this article.
The system itself, which is able to use a service from psychics, must be spiritual and non-rational (open and not sticking to human rules) enough to be able to cooperate with such powers. It's thankfully where business of today is heading - more openness, more openness to new and different ideas etc. Spiritual powers are having so completely out-of-box manner of logic that whenever some human being is using her ego in repressive ways [repressive to that part of mind] it simply wont work; whenever she is forced to act so, she can simply loose that power. Those powers, basically, are non-human enough to just make some potential criminal to change mind.
Article here is kind of materialistic spiritualism - that okay, lets guess that it exists, but then it must exist in the same way as any other thing, like creating bread. Anyway, it's rather working like an inspiration - inspiration will come and give you some new data at random moments, not at will, even if it can be trained very much and indeed differs in amounts for different people. Inspiration is even very similar to phenomena of psychic seeing; it might be in middle point between rational thinking and psychic seeing. It often involves getting a bit more data than you would hope from just a random creative fantasy, which utilizes known facts.
I personally have had many periods of mind-reading as one would call it. I have been able to understand very deep thoughts of people with no words - much more than 95% of people can do. Anyway, that does not make it clear that I would instantly recognize all non-terrorists from some crowd of people; it rather means that in case of deep and spiritual importance of some variable of some people for me, I am able to clearly see the value of that variable. For example if I have not only will and motive, but also some kind of spiritual mission [coming from nowhere - say, God or subconscious or some kind of human instinct] about some specific thing, I can have a lot of information not consciously collected with my senses, which is surprisingly exact. And that's all - this is not a case, where some company would buy some random clairvoyance service from me and I could be able to have better results than a randomly-chosen empathic person.
We must accept, as sensitives or creative people, that art and magic is not under human control, but it comes from parts of us we neither know or control much. As more powerful the magic as less it's coming from human ego-will ..even tarot cards, which we clearly not control at all, could be an obvious example if they work - the chance or force, which makes correct card appear for person using them, would make incorrect cards appear as well, very easily. And, especially, person in trance is totally out of her everyday order - be that wish, will, motive for riches or any other thing, events in trance are totally uncontrollable. Also, some people have those visions in dreams - yes, you can read things out from scenarios of dreams, but even all the world's money could not make you decide, about what you will dream tomorrow. Most of those sensitives will tell you about a few things they happen to see about you, if they are not charlatans - and this, again, is uncontrolled. I personally sometimes see some things about people - say, few times per year -, but with such powers I clearly would not qualify me to have a full-time work in some government agency, it rather allows me to sometimes tell people about some sign or danger I see.
So, the article here is totally childish - it's funny how it could be published in scientific newspaper if it does not take trivial facts known from ages-old traditions into account, but rather sees sensitiveness as something, which must work exactly like all those things, which can be easily proven by science. Clairvoyance is not science and probably will never be one. It's a different realm with it's own rules of game and unless you accept those rules you have wasted all money spent to trying to make it usable. The intelligence, which obviously must be behind such events - and it's not located inside one human, also obviously - simply must be clever enough to find it's own ways and not care about some trivial human logic and social system ..it's simply more intelligent network of living mind than any kind of rationalized system could ever be. It's collective unconsciousness of humankind - and even deeper -, thus an utilization of it must engage the diplomacy of such kind, which would guarantee harmonious activity with that power itself. We might not call it God - which I personally won't do for several reasons -, but inside hypothesis of it's intelligence we can't deny that it must be ultimately intelligent, all-considering force, which is not located in brain of one human being. Churches and shamanic rituals in their bestare examples of what that organization able to hire sensitives would actually look like - it's, as a whole organization, mutually cooperating with all kinds of underlying sources of psychic powers, so that it would integrate it and into it, not merely buy some partial service and trying to use it as a gearwheel of some system designed by materialistic philosophy. Spiritual and religious realms of information are intelligent in themselves and must be regarded as such. And this, clearly, also shows that this article with it's thesis and conclusion, is a junk. In case you want to regard to some tradition of spirituality, you must clearly target it's whole picture and not do the common mistake - materialists somehow feel that this non-controllability of psychic forces is just meant as a tool of seduction, therefore deliberately ignoring this aspect of literature and trying to create some simplified picture and seek for impossible kind of psychics, who are not bound to basic laws of spirituality - saying that only this would be a real proof and the real theory is not falsifiable. If a hypothesis is not (easily?) falsifiable, you still can not replace it with some other hypothesis, which is, and direct all your critics to this imaginable hypothesis - in name of an original hypothesis.
Thus, I would expect an author of such an article to actually understand both topics involved - homeland security and ages-old traditions, which have descriptions of some psychic powers as components of their theories about life. And, indeed, I expect reviewers to check it's accuracy against some traditions of ESP, religion or trans-personal psychology and then clearly say, which ones are meant. Afaik this article does not actually touch any strong and long-lived theory about such phenomena.
No comments:
Post a Comment