How to Heal the Big Problems
“The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of human diversities, but from knowledge of men’s deepest unity – kinship with God.”
–Paramahansa Yogananda (Indian Spiritual Teacher and, in 1920, Founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, 1893-1952)
The “Paranormal” Is Normal
“Psychic phenomena are normal in the sense that they are common: for example, most people have made other people turn round by staring at them, or had seemingly telepathic experience with telephone calls . . .. But because these experiences do not fit in with the materialist mind-in-brain theory, they are classified as paranormal, literally meaning ‘beyond the normal’. In this sense, ‘normal’ is defined not by what actually happens, but by the assumptions of materialists… If psi phenomena exist, which I think they do, they are normal, not paranormal; natural, not supernatural. They are part of human nature and animal nature, and they can be investigated scientifically.”
–Rupert Sheldrake (English Biologist, Researcher and Author, 1942-)
“Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery” (Rupert Sheldrake)
Your Latent Powers
“Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York and Singapore and Lhasa and Stepney Green are all as real as the place I happen to be in at the moment. Yet my senses do not agree. They assure me that this place, here and now, is far more real than any other place or any other time. Only in certain moments of great inner intensity do I know this to be a lie. Faculty X is a sense of reality, the reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it — fragmentary and uncertain though it is — that distinguishes man from all other animals.”
–Colin Wilson (English Novelist and Writer on Philosophy, Sociology and the Occult, 1931-)
To Love Is To Know and To Act
“When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully, in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.”
–Eknath Easwaran (Indian-American Spiritual Teacher, Professor and Author, 1910-1999)
Life Transcending Logic
“. . . on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.”
–Robert Gordis (American Jewish Scholar, and, from 1940-1992, Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1908-1992)
The Value of the Intuitive Leap
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion – these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
–Jerome Bruner (American Psychologist, 1915-)
Ready To Respond to the Whispers of Intuition
“At any moment we can receive warnings, news or clarification from the invisible world.
So, pay attention, stay tuned in, so that you form a sort of photoelectric cell warning you when an entity, a current, is coming by. And straight away try to know its nature.
When you feel a current of light lightly touching you, remain still until it takes hold of you. Wait for it to pervade your soul, and then it will be with you throughout the day whatever you are doing. The more spiritual the current, the faster it goes by. Divine currents travel in space at lightning speed. And so you should try to keep your subtle centers in a fit state to react immediately.”
–Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (Bulgarian Spiritual Master, 1900-1986)
Inner Knowing
“Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do.”
–Marie-Louise von Franz (German-born Swiss Jungian Psychologist and Author, 1915-1998)
Higher Intuition
“Intuition is a comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is…a complete loss of the sense of separateness. At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love which has no relation to sentiment or to the affectional reaction but is, predominantly, in the nature of an identification with all beings.”
–Alice A. Bailey (English Writer, Spiritual Teacher and Founder of the Arcane School, 1880-1949)
Inner Communion
“There is a kind of inner communion with the psychic being which takes place when one willingly gives up desire, and because of this, one feels, a much greater joy than if he had satisfied his desire. Besides most usually, almost without exception, when one satisfies a desire it always leaves a kind of bitter taste some where.”
–The Mother of Pondicherry (a.k.a. Mirra Alfassa, French-born Indian Spiritual Teacher, 1878-1973)
