We have the ability of a ‘gut instinct’ or precognitive reaction to a energy stimulus/event. Like with all other senses it is a matter of allowing them to act or refine the receptors for a higher sense perception.

Though the organ is the ear, the wave patterns are translated in the brain - a recent program (The Nature of Things) devoted to this, mentions two particular areas one for speech another for music. There are now instruments for the blind that allow them to see sound wave patterns of particular objects. This is quite fascinating as the wave pattern is transmitted to the brain where it is translated as sight, a combining of different areas of the brain.Taking this example, the ‘intuitive’ sense can also be refined and we can become aware of this action. Calming the mind to allow this ‘extra’ sense, though it cannot be extra as it is always there in as much as we sense another’s emotional state. That energy is being ‘felt’ in some manner as much as the energy of sound is being translated to that of sight - a true second sight which is another term for precognition. It may be a simple (and complex) as training or quieting the mind to allow this input to be translated to a conscious state.

Meditation as an exercise in focus on concentration is perhaps the first step; allowing the mind chatter to gradually be calmed with attention to the breath or other single point depending on the process which is most comfortable for the practitioner, being the first hurdle.

 

The mind in its function is to think so allowing this process to be quieted is the first and perhaps greatest obstacle in proceeding to deeper levels of meditation. Non-judgement of the ‘clocked’ time is again a rite of passage, perhaps at the beginning only a few moments will pass before the engine that is the mind begins to chug in other directions, acknowledge these thoughts and allow them to float away like a cloud across the sky or a bird flying into the distance and bring the attention back to the single point or action. There is no right or wrong only the path that the individual takes to get to their destination.

 

As we develop control and release so too does our practice improve and the journey to the One continues and can increase the faculty of intuition or precognition. The now, then and when all exist within the One.

With my daily meditations (whether guided, self directed or a fold in time & space) come insights and clarity, strength and energy, love and harmony – the mind is calmed and perception is heightened. A day without turns the physical self lethargic, dull, sleep deprived and frustrated. Thus the mind is otherwise occupied with the ‘self’ and perception is skewed with the rabble associated with these energies.

How can we ‘see’ if the mind is in this state? Only by returning to calm can we follow a path to light.

© T.S. (Tim) White