Introduction
It’s great to see that science is now tentatively studying so-called ‘psychic phenomena’. Although the steps taken might not producing hugely informative results as yet, in terms of explaining psychic abilities and phenomena, it’s a great start.
A worthy mention must be given to Sigmund Freud, for noticing that people possess psychic abilities that we are not usually aware of, and that this is actually part of our personal make up, in some primitive sense. This has been pretty much forgotten due to our focus on the outer part of us; the material evolution. Psychiatric studies have always shown this psychic potential that we have, but our scientific tools cannot help us to understand it, thus we ignore it.
It is quite important to emphasise that I have always believed in psychic ability, although it is really hard to have a descent conversation about this subject, as it almost always ends up in misunderstanding or derision. This is not helped by those who profit from other people’s weaknesses and lack of understanding and knowledge, such as the magazine psychics and horoscope writers (only £1.50/min…) or the psychics portrayed on ghost hunting TV shows.
Still, this subject is truly intriguing and plenty of exciting conversations happen on a daily basis, throughout the world, about psychic phenomena. Just sitting down with your friends, chatting about a ghost someone has seen, having a feeling something specific is going to happen, or recalling coincidental situations - these lead us to wonder… do we then posses psychic abilities and, if so, why can’t science prove or properly investigate these things? As long as science doesn’t have the tools or correct solid base to properly conduct research, we end up losing faith in what we’ve experienced. As no explanation is available, we come to believe that it is all probably some trick of nature or just our imagination.
The Mind
With the evolution of physics we get much deeper into the so-called rabbit hole. We discover that a vacuum is actually energy, we become familiar with antimatter, and we start the quest to explore dark matter. Even more important is our depth of studies into the subatomic world.
We may be able to only observe things based on the scale that our eyes mainly operate, but by quantizing those things we come to realise that they are energy, and actually a whole new world of what I call the ‘subatomic universe’, lies ahead of us.
Particles of all kinds – quarks – etc, comprise what we call reality, but this is not the reality we can observe with naked eye, this is the ‘’invisible’’ reality within the one that we perceive. These things were pretty much invisible and unknown to us before we developed the right technological tools in order to study and understand them.
In the distant past, scientific knowledge came though observing the visibly material world, the solar system and matter itself. Later on, with much more improved tools, we came to finally discover the subatomic world. That’s a great evolution, but we haven’t finished yet. In fact, we’ve really only just got started! Imagine now, how much more tricky it would be to observe energies that are invisible to us, especially when we have no tools, or indeed, any idea of what these energies may be, or how they work. I’m talking about our thoughts and specifically the power of our minds.
Neurology, archaeology, quantum physics, psychology, and many more scientific branches came together to slowly help us start digging for information about us; not just in terms of the universe and the world around us, but our mind vs the world, our perception vs quantum mechanics.
As I explained in a previous blog post, classical physics is based more on our perception - pretty much the way we observe and understand this world with our own minds. Quantum mechanics is based on the world before we observe it and affect it with our minds. The world in its true form. As I mentioned previously, consciousness comes into play, as it is the main link between classical and quantum worlds. Consciousness is a very important factor in understanding and realising our psyche. You’ve got to be open to a little bit of everything – the classical way of thinking makes for a great observer, while the quantum way of thinking leads to being open minded, having a multi-sided point of view, with space for improvement.
How many people can do that? How many of us can let our mind free, without forcing it to operate under our self-developed mould; a model that we consciously create in order to filter information that doesn’t suit us at the present moment, only allowing specific information to be reached within our conscious mind.
Our brain has the ability to accept a huge amount of information, but we only pay attention to a very small percentage of it. Yet, all this huge amount of information must lay somewhere in our heads… somewhere that we may call the subconscious mind.Because we don’t use or pay attention to all the information entering our brain, it doesn’t mean that it magically disappears from our head. It simply means that we have filtered it out, only consciously working with the information that is more suitable to us.
This shows us something about our ego - a quite important part of our personality and way of being. Our ego is the most dominant part of our consciousness, and so becomes our consciousness itself. The reason that it becomes so dominant is because, as I said earlier, it is our immediate link between the quantum and the classical world. It is what we are and what define us - it is extremely important to us. We obviously quantize our own self, separating it from the unified system that we live in, by saying I AM.
In the past, we could only observe and understand the visible world, and as such could not see that everything is actually connected on a micro scale, that defines our subatomic nature. The quantization of the whole, that leads us to a new concept of unity and sameness.
Science has made a huge jump in just a few years, changing what we know about our existence and the universe. Suddenly we are all made of the same building blocks/particles, and the more scientific tools evolve, the deeper we can look into this micro scale that define the universe and us within it.
Ego doesn’t belong to this new age of scientific evolution. It is left over from the pre-technological age; a quality that we are quite unsure of how to get rid of or perhaps are not even willing to. However, without our ego been so dominant, we can open our minds and see that we are all nearly one; connected; unified.
No matter how much more science is going to evolve, it will take a great astonishing step for it to shake the sociological superstitions that we live with. Those ancient models given to us by the first tribes that ever existed – the fabric of society itself and this day to day need for survival and material accomplishment, including our emotional needs that we are very much addicted and dependant to.
It might take many generations, for us to fully perceive that our emotions are nothing more than a chemical function. That we are nothing more than a system of particles; our unseen subatomic nature and many more things that hold us back and let us live in superstition.
While we have entered an age of technological advancement and unlimited information at our fingertips, our consciousness remains medieval in comparison to our technological progress. While technology is evolving day by day, at the same time it take us whole generations for our perception to change and for our minds to progress into a next level of understanding and thus free ourselves from superstition and even more, our strong ego.
So, what about the person that tries to balance their ego with all the conscious parts of their mind? How do they perceive information? Well, if the average person can only consciously perceive a small amount of information, a psychic person can, simply put, perceive far more. The reason why is simple. Psychics are not as judgemental as an average person can be. They filter far less information than an average person and, as such, let more information enter their conscious mind - like leaving the doors open, if you will. Even if they don’t fully agree or understand all this information that enters their brain, they still don’t dismiss it, but rather just keep it there, to be used when the right time comes. This way they set the basics for self progress and thus look forward into the future.
While the average person may let information related to their 5 senses access their conscious, and mainly keep their mind busy thinking about specific information, others allow more multiple views to be accessed by their mind, in the form of energies; thoughts, feelings and visions. Some call it the 6th sense. I’ll simply call it an internal brain function.
Our brain is just able to receive far more information than we can consciously perceive. This is scientifically proven. We end up using only a small percentage of our brain, while the rest is pretty much not ‘’usable’’, because we simply do not try to access it, we don’t want or don’t know how to make use of it. This is the self-developed mould that I mentioned earlier.
A person with less ego and a more quantum way of approaching things, will lower/suspend their objection and judgement, so they can let energy/information pass through to their consciousness. They will simply stop for a moment being the so-called ME, but instead enter another state of mind where they look inside themselves to see what is happening there. They look into their minds.
Amazing things are happening. It is like visualising your own self, or looking at yourself from another perspective - observing yourself in a quantum way. In that sense, it is not just You, but is You, watching You. Sounds strange eh? As I said, not many of us will ever reach this level of consciousness. We are far too stuck in our stereotypical way of being.
Slowly by observing your own mind, you start finding out so many new things! Information that you cannot prove or understand how it even got inside your mind. Information that the average person will simply dismiss in an instant. If we let this information enter our conscious mind, maybe even analyse it, or hold it and wait to see when it might become useful; this is where you start seeing into the future and deeper into the present. Perhaps noticing the reasons behind things may not be as they seem to be, that your past has a purpose and is fully linked to you.
Sounds like Philosophy - what a wonderful subject. Somehow it seems that science and philosophy are somehow merging with each other. Deep thinking and creativity seems to be a greatly needed component for scientific progress, together with experimental and educational applications.
As you keep living your day to day life, you come across situations where you confirm the information that you didn’t dismiss in the past – that information where you couldn’t understand its origin, or you couldn’t prove its relevance at that point in time.
You start realising by experience that your brain knows so much more! If you look into your mind, all the answers may be there and all the information may be accessed. You’ve become comfortable with it. It becomes a part of yourself and your way of thinking - a part that lives in much more harmony with your ego.You, thus your ego and your mind - all this amazing amount of information that your brain receives, becomes friends. Hey, you just became friends with yourself!
But there is long way to go, because you still live in this superstitious world where archetypes and limited way of thinking holds you and everyone else back.
At least in these moments that you feel alone and confused, in a world of ignorance, you have a good friend to talk to - your own self.
It definitely gives you faith and makes you feel more determined to continue on this hard quest towards your so-called enlightenment. It is the internal process of self discovery, where science will always set the limit, as it holds the proofs that can be accessed at that specific point of time and stereotypes will be the force that slows you down.
Those of us that possess psychic powers, have a greater understanding of the information that flows into our brains, and thus a more sharp 6th sense, or more vivid way of manipulating the energies that appear as thoughts, visions and so on. These people have a deep internal understanding of the connection of everything in the world. Before science came to talk about unification and superposition, or even entanglement; before science was used to explain the subatomic world, these people had their own realisation that their mind produces some form of energy that seems to affect things around them. That space and time doesn’t really matter on these occasions, or indeed, even natural laws of physics, because these phenomena seems to operate on a different level to what classical physics can explain.These people are aware that there are energies that enter their brain which they cannot consciously observe the logic behind, but apparently they accept that their brain simply can access an amazing amount of information. These people are scientists of their own self.
Science will simply come to verify what psychics have understood just by experience. And even though the reason behind science might be totally far from intending to explain the psyche, still it slowly builds a solid base for us to understand more about it.
Random number generators have proved the power of our intention e.g. telekinesis. Experiments with water have proved the power of our thoughts and quantum physics have proved this underlying connection between everything. Not forgetting entanglement - a magical subject! Things being connected whatever the space and time.
Experiments with brain monitoring have come to prove that we actually can affect something when we focus on it, and psychology provides a deeper understanding of consciousness and ego. Neurology comes to explain the way our brain functions and all of these together give us a solid base from which to understand what we may call psychic abilities - that is, nothing more than a natural function of our brain and a natural function of the universe itself, the world and all within it.
I will continue with posts in the future, where we can look closer into scientific relationships vs our psychic.
