Expanding Perceptions and Powers

As we practice our chosen discipline, here in the physical, and extend our explorations in the astral, our experiences seem to sharpen our perceptions and increase the power of our intuitions, most often by clearing out the blockages built by doubt and self-consciousness, leaving us with a clarity that can sometimes be quite shocking.

Maybe we see, or at least glimpse, the dearly beloved grieved by our companion or random stranger, the one who hovers behind the shoulder, saddened and perhaps frustrated by the grief that fences them off. Perhaps ideas, sudden and unbidden, arrive to illustrate the root of someone’s issue or complaint, looking very much like a karmic cause delivering the package of effects unerringly through time and change of costumes. We often see them in a flash, easily forgotten in the stream of conversation and events that tally up the day, the shards of memory popping up hours later to poke and prod. And then we enter the territory of Do I dare disturb? and What if I am wrong? or Perhaps my help might be a hindrance? or Surely it’s none of my business?       

Such are the trials of the well meaning aspirant. We become more psychic and sensitive as the vanities and ego-traps fade into the background. We resist the pose of know-it-all, sensing how easy it would be in the land of the blind for the one eyed man to be the revered or mocked or tarnished. After two or three such stings we see how much more useful it is to blend into the background, where offering a hand can be seen as common courtesy.

After a span where spirits and guides seems to always know more we begin to feel that maybe we do too. Again a challenge to our self-esteem, as yet set on ‘low’ despite our advances. Yet it persists until it dawns that many spirits, even though functioning members of that ‘happy dead’ clan, are deficient in the knowledge that you are gaining though your conscious explorations. Higher Selves and Extraterrestrial Visitors are still myths to them, often heretical ones. Many, in fact, still adhere, often with a passion, to the legends and dogmas of their earthly religion, which still categorizes their thought and aspirations for them. That long distance race between faith and knowledge has merely reached a new stage.