What does the mind power actually mean????

[Carroll]

Hi everyone, there are many questions that commonly arise when we discuss mind power, having influence and possibly control over things amd the ability to simply “make things happen”. Maybe these are all conceptual thoughts, and may be not. I do think about these things and it still puzzles me. What are your opinions on this and how do you perceive the power of mind???

[Blake]

Welcome to the forum, Carroll!

Thanks for joining and for hopping right into the discussion here. You will find that it is a friendly and helpful place.

Now, to your question: Mind Power - what is it, how does it work, what are the potentials?

Well, that would be a great topic for a book I think. But I will try as quickly as I can to give a synopsis of how I see it:

First, the average person has no understanding of mind power at all. They operate from a place in which they are like a victim of their thoughts and emotions. When I think of mind power, I actually include in my understanding of this, control and focus of the emotions as well. Control the mind and you will control the emotions. The typical mental condition is one of thoughts rambling nearly aimlessly within the mind, running willy nilly here and there, and often repeating the same series of ramblings and obsessions over and over again each day.

The first step toward mind power is to focus the mind. This is the stage of concentration. We learn to achieve one-pointed concentration of the mind. This is best done through meditation, but actually many people in the world today are fairly adept at this through the focus of the mind in business applications, or in the creative arts such as writing, painting, dancing, sports, etc. These all provide a great focus of the mind, and these skilled people have developed a real power of concentration and will power.

Once you learn to achieve concentration, the next step is to lose yourself somewhat in the focus, the focus becomes so complete, that the normal mental chattering process will fall away, and you will experience moments or stretches of "in the flow" experience. This is written about quite a bit in sports psychology, but it occurs in all areas of endeavor. What we want to learn next is to achieve a state of relative stillness of the mind. The mind is to be our tool, it is like a focusing lens for manifestation from the higher causal planes. When you work in meditation to first concentrate the mind, then achieve stillness, through focusing the mind into these intutional planes of awareness we are then able to consciously focus this light through the lens of the mind. There is a science to all of this, related to meditation techniques.

The final step in mind power comes when you achieve relative purity of mind. This purity comes first through the concentrating and then the stilling processes. At some point you will begin to achieve a detachment of identification with the mental processes. You will realize how you have identified your sense of self with all of these thoughts, feelings and dramas. But you are not any of these things. When the ego begins to diminish its hold on the mind, your mind is beginning to become pure. The pure mind is the egoless mind. If there is no ego attaching to the thoughts that come into the mind, there is no impurity. From this state of pure mind, concentrated, then directed into the causal and intuitional planes, you truly gain "mind power", which is the ability to rapidly manifest your thoughts.

As far as the potential of this - at the full flowering of mind power, the manifestations will become so rapid that it defies understanding. Miraculous happenings of synchronicity will begin to string together from moment to moment.

There is so much more that could be said on this, but I hope that this gives you some idea of where I am coming from.

Best wishes,

Blake

[Cameron]

I too have been reading about this stuff lately and there is a growing amount of interest and information out there now. It appears first you must understand your inherent power, believe in your ability to harness and utilize it and you will almost automatically begin to “make things happen”. Anything that you do and the things that subsequently take place in this “reality” are just a matter of the unified quantum field expressing itself. I was totally unaware of this and then I came across the concept of practical quantum reality (subscribe to the newsletter and you’ll receive tonnes of valuable info), it allowed me to begin to understand this mostly un–discovered principle/law of the nature of things and the actual meaning of everyone’s potential mind power. The first step is to gather information and dig into it; best of luck to you on this interesting and powerful journey.

[Steve]

2 Cents-

I just want to say that Blakes explanation of the meditative process is EXACTLY on target. I would only add that one should then move from 'the cushion' to daily life; that is, to keep focus on the pure "I Am" or manifested Being that is discovered when the egoic self disappears during meditation.

The curious (or maybe not so curious) feature is that when this non-egoic state gets a little stable, then there is little disire for siddis or to manifest objects. Getting parking spaces is pretty cool, but the fun is to see just what presents the universe gives on its own.

While intellectual knowledge of metaphysics, or actually physics as it moves into metaphysics, is pleasurable for the mind, IMHO it can be a distraction from the real 'work' of Self realization -the processes of which Blake has so clearly described.

Much Peace,

[Blake]

The curious (or maybe not so curious) feature is that when this non-egoic state gets a little stable, then there is little disire for siddis or to manifest objects. Getting parking spaces is pretty cool, but the fun is to see just what presents the universe gives on its own.

Thanks for your "2 cents", Steve, though I have to say that I find that your input is mostly more valuable than that.

Regarding siddhi powers and manifestations; I think you are right on in regard to the effect of "non-ego" consciousness on the individual desires. For me, the worked out along the path of practicing / learning unconditional love. I read a very good book by Cyril Scott, "The Greater Awareness", and he mentions some things in there regarding the practice of feeling unconditional love that really took root in me. After some time practicing this - maybe a month, I came to the realization that all emotions were derived from this unconditional love energy. I found that the lower emotions were simply conditional distortions of this primary energy. This being the case, I decided that unconditional love would suffice in every situation and this really spurred me on to continue my practice. This practice eventually had the effect of opening me up to the whole field of energy, which is really unconditional love, in which all people share their emotional natures, resting like molecules of emotion within this greater Sea of Love.

Yet these individual molecules of love are for the most part unaware of the sea of energies around them and are unaware of the free flow of energy throughout that whole. The individual magnetic force of the little self pulls this energy in upon itself and creates the individual emotional life. It is simply the blockage of the flow of this energy outward into the whole of the field that creates the lower emotions - the great energy of Unconditional Love then become hate, which is simply love within a smaller circumscribed field. You love your family and those you know, but field hatred for those who are other. You love your country but hate those other countries. The worst form of hatred being self hatred, because this denies the energy of love to the individual field altogether.

In the end, this practice helped me to see that I didn't really need an individual emotional, or that the individual emotional nature was an illusion, a distortion within this greater field of Unconditional Love. This made it easier and easier to detach from the lower emotions, and then when they were needed to consciously sculpt them for the need of the moment, but never from the standpoint of attachment and identification with those emotions.

Now to how this relates to the manifestation of siddhi powers. While there may not be personal desire for them to manifest, I have found that they seem to be stimulated by the need of the moment. They seem to be drawn out by the need of those I seek to help. As one expands the field of service, and learns to get the little self, the ego, out of the way, such things can manifest spontaneously as needed. They truly aren't meant to be sought after as ends in themselves, for selfish purposes. The truest paths of personal development are that of Love and Service to Humanity.

Love and Blessings to you all,

Blake

[Steve]

Very interesting. I can see where the degrading of love could form more baser energies. When I can again sit down and read a book comfortably I may try to find this book. Of course Metta practice (loving-kindness) can never be anything but good. This whole thing is a bit beyound my limited scope, but clarity without a loving emotional counterpart is a very dry thing, and I feel I am lacking here as well. That in itself is strange given what was found in the spiritual experiences of the past. There is quick discernment of the emotional states, and equally quick corrective actions on the negative ones that sometimes pop up.

An aside: Thich Hanh described the best pratice for dealiing with anger I have come across. He says to imagine your anger as a baby and to hold it and rock it in your arms. This dissipates the anger very quickly.

Now where was I? Yes, bliss is present but the depth of love seems shallow. A constipated chakra? I undoubtedly need to work more with energies. Sometimes the kriya moves on its own, but I haven't tried to do much. Guess I'll start.

Great Peace

Steve

[alexandra]

i guess this question is more directed for what is mind power used for instead of the above heading but I really like to tap into its power. I was hoping to overcome a mental block with mind power. I was just doing some research and came across this site. I have previously been interested in lucid dreaming and I friend suggested lucid dreaming to overcome my mental block to bring together my sub conscience with conscience. is this possible how can i go about this process of defeating a mental block with either mind power or lucid dreaming. any suggestions??
thank you