To hear the silent thoughts of others
“We are addicted to our
thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
-
Santosh Kalwar, journalist and author of Nepali origin living in
Finland.
Free flow of thoughts may be the only way to discover the truth; but
have you ever wondered what it would be like to hear the silent thoughts
of others and know the truth: about yourself? The truth does not have to
be liked. It needs, only be spoken.
The truth may hurt, but it will set you free. The truth does not ask
for belief, it just exists. How sad it is that, notwithstanding the fact
that sometimes we know the truth; we fear to speak it. All of us are
gods and there is a god in every single one of us, without exception.
When I say god, I mean possessing the qualities of godliness. Although
we have all heard the word, few of us can give a quick and easy
definition for godliness.
We read little about it - historically the concept has been, and is,
treated rather lightly in Christian literature - and we might conclude
that it is something we will experience and understand only as we go
much further down the road of moral living.
However, for me, godliness is the quality or state of being virtuous
and having ethics based values befitting a godly person. It becomes the
responsibility of every single one of us to discover the god within.
However, there is a corollary to this. Since life demands a balance
in everything - the masculine needing the feminine, energy requiring
mass, so on and so forth - it is true that as much as there is a god in
every one of us, there is evil in every single one of us.
The true battle between good and evil is, fought within each of us.
In fact, even though the cosmos has the force of goodness, there is in
it the force of evil as well: that perhaps is, the “dark matter” about
which we know so little.
In fact, we hardly get to know about the dark matters that, goes on
in this resplendent land called Lanka; let alone the universe.
Unspoken
Setting issues of dark matters aside, to hear the unspoken thoughts
of others or to read their minds is not something as impossible as we
think.
We are aware that light helps us see. Some animals possess the
ability to see in the dark, purely because they have trained, from
birth, in the method to utilize lesser amount of light to see that which
we see only if larger amount of light is available. Just like light,
which helps us to view the world at large, there are radio waves to help
one hear.
While all humans can easily utilize the properties of light to see,
most do not know how to use radio waves to hear. Instead, we are
dependent on sound waves to hear. Sound waves travel much slower through
the atmosphere and for much shorter distances. Radio waves travel far
and fast, just like light waves. It is by the ability to use radio
waves, that the science of telepathy was born. Telepathy is the ability
to, mentally control any function the brain controls, hearing other
people's thoughts, scanning the memory of other people and sending
thoughts directly to other people's minds, without the use of the five
known senses. Bats use Radar, which is a form of electromagnetic waves,
to see. Pigeons use magnetic waves to navigate and fly across lands.
They have a built in homing device that uses the magnetic waves to guide
their flight.
Thus, for humans, all one needs to listen in to the thoughts of
others is, to learn and train in the science behind it: a very simple
science indeed. Humans can train their brain to pick up radio waves,
acting like a receiver that tunes into selected frequencies.
We possess powerful transmitters in our forehead: our temples.
To tune in to someone whose thoughts you wish to hear, one needs to
focus the mind on the person concerned and tune your mind to the
wavelength of his mind. Meditation masters use this technique to
communicate with their disciples in distant lands and vise versa. One
should not confuse hearing the thoughts of others with hearing voices.
It is common for people to hear voices as if they are thoughts entering
their mind from somewhere outside themselves.
This is not the same as a suddenly inspired idea, which people
usually recognise as coming from themselves. These thoughts are not
their own and would seem to come from outside their own consciousness,
like telepathy. All of us have experienced it at sometime or the other
in our lives. Mental health professionals of course define hearing
voices as a symptom of medical illness.
However, research has shown that many people hear voices, and some
cope well with their voices, without psychiatric intervention or need to
seek help from mental health services.
Throughout history and even today, there are people who hear voices
who find their voices inspirational and comforting.
Many researchers, practitioners, and voice hearers believe it is a
mistake to regard voice hearing as a part of a psychopathic disease
syndrome. Rather, they consider it to be, more akin to a variation in
human experience - a special faculty or difference that definitely does
not need a cure.
Ignorance
For a people who consider ignorance - that night of the mind as the
right of the mind; for a people who have the unique ability to listen to
one story and assume or understand another; exploring telepathy would be
an incredible journey, and an enlightening one.
In fact, all of us have experienced telepathy. Sometimes we think of
someone we have not talked to in months and we suddenly get a call from
them; or when two people are together, they might say the same thing at
the same time. These are examples of spontaneous mind-to-mind
communications. Such communications can be, received by way of feelings,
emotions, thoughts, images, and desires. Some people can communicate
telepathically when dreaming. Our use of telepathy begins soon after we
are born. It is our parents, who begin teaching us how to use this
natural ability.
If we could remember our infancy, we would likely recall mom or dad
looking over us in our crib, talking to us and smiling, trying to get a
smile or some similar response. Parents of young children unconsciously
achieve the initial telepathic contact with the child by mimicking the
child's noises to elicit a physical response from the child.
This interaction gets the child's attention, and the child's
attention is on observing the thoughts and feelings projected by the
parents. It is during this early telepathic interaction that we first
utilize our telepathic ability to receive thoughts and feelings.
Telepathic
In fact, all of us are born with a telepathic gift. It is the effort
and hurdles in learning telepathy that prevents many people from being
able to communicate in this way.
Lack of awareness, skepticism and general societal views are often
big factors in people locking out this special intuitive ability. Some
cultures openly acknowledge communication in this way.
For example, the Japanese have a word to describe the special
relationship and oneness between lovers that is borne from telepathic
understanding. A telepathic relationship is borne from the concept that
all beings originate from the same source; some call this a spiritual
source, others a natural source, and others a universal force.
Whatever it may be, art of telepathy provides a more efficient means
of communicating.
It is environmentally friendly, free, not dependent on location of
either party, and is instantaneous. Maybe we should all start practicing
having thoughts that we would be happy for others to eavesdrop on.
See you this day next week. Until then, keep thinking; keep laughing.
Life is mostly about these two activities.
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