Para-Normal Phenomena

A mother has a sudden, terrifying vision that her son is dying - and two hours later, receives a phone call that he was killed in a fatal car accident. In a mental telepathy experiment in Czechoslovakia, the " sender" imagines being buried alive, and the "receiver" thousands of miles without difficulty, even through lead and        iron capsules that block all electromagnetic waves and radiation. Nothing can "block" these perceptions because they are not crude waves like electricity; they are psychic attunements to higher levels of consciousness, beyond the limitations of space and time.

The experience of such psychic phenomena as extrasensory perception (ESP), telepathy or clairvoyance may occur spontaneously only eight to ten times in the life of an average person, when the lower layers of the mind are sufficiently stilled through relaxed tranquility or intense concentration to allow the subtle perceptions from the super-conscious realm to penetrate into consciousness. Thus, these phenomena are not all "supernatural" they are quite natural, but rare.

Only those who have brought their conscious and subconscious minds under control and regularly attune them to higher levels of awareness through meditation may experience these realizations regularly - like the forebodings of the ancient Hebrew prophets, or the visions of Christian saints. Through meditation and Yogic disciplines, Soviet researchers were able to train people to develop extra-sensory perception within three months!  Already scientists are imagining the beneficial uses to which our latent psychic abilities will be put: in communications, to overcome language barriers and defects of speech, hearing and sight; in psychotherapy, medicine, education and rehabilitation; and even in space exploration and communication with beings from outer space!

Medium and Soothsayers: Blurred Vision

But many people who have developed some psychic powers often knowingly or unknowingly misuse them to dominate, or confuse others. Those charlatans who try to hoodwink the public by feigning trances, in which they are "possessed" by gods or demons and divinely endowed with supernatural powers, are no doubt impostors; but even those who sincerely invoke the gods or spirits with humble devotion may mislead other by their false prophecies.

Some power of visualizing past and future, or distant events may be developed even in average people by practices such as crystal-gazing: the intense concentration on a bright object, such as a crystal ball, stills the conscious and subconscious functioning and temporarily expands the awareness to the super-conscious state. But the predications of crystal-gazers, hypnotized mediums and fortune-tellers - from oracles to Ouija boards - are almost never completely correct. Even when there is some clairvoyant inspiration from the super-conscious mind, it may become distorted by the jumbled images of their subconscious minds, like the dream of the Indian farmer, or the incoherent mutterings of some mediums, or the muddled prophecies of the Delphic oracles. Thus, it is unwise to place complete faith in psychics or soothsayers because, indeed, they are not always telling the truth.