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Clairvoyance Accepted in Primitive Cultures Q: How do you develop clairvoyance? RK: There is a way. One of the things that we have as a useful tool
to get toward more clairvoyant ability is to uplift our
character. Much of the process of that is done through the Great Virtues which is a great technique of overcoming the bad
habits that we have picked up from our culture. There are many cultures in
the world, essentially what we consider primitive or
matriarchal type, certainly not highly technically evolved communities which
are generally in the patriarchal group. Anyway, these other people in these
primitive societies, in many cases, just grow naturally to a clairvoyant
ability. It seems like they were always aware of things going on in higher
planes of existence and communicate with people who are discarnate just as a
matter of course. But, it is part of their
philosophy: it is accepted. Their mothers and uncles and all the older people
in the community expect that of the children, talk about it constantly and
relate real situations relative to what is going on in the other planes as
well as this one in any given situation. So, it is accepted. In our culture, when young
children begin to report things that are going on in other planes, we
immediately tell them that they have an overactive imagination. We make it
unsafe for them to report things that they see going on in other planes and their
ability soon shuts down. It diminishes their sense of anxiety about things
and, actually, in any culture, sanity, or what is
considered sanity, is dependent upon a consensus of everybody around
you in that culture. If everybody says, “Yes,
indeed, I see what is happening—to a child—I see what you are describing on
the other plane and “Yes, I am confirming that is what they are doing and
that is what they are saying and you are perceiving it correctly.” Now, that
child is going to go ahead and just keep on having the clairvoyant ability. You can see what happens in
our culture, however. If anybody starts reporting those kinds of things,
usually some neighbor, somewhere along the line, suggests to the local
authorities that they bring him in and have his head examined. Eventually, he
ends up in an institution because he is operating outside of the context of
the society’s concurrence. That definitely suppresses the ability of people
who have emerging clairvoyant ability from pursuing them because they really
feel, “Gosh, anybody I talk to says that is crazy, so I must be crazy. I have
to straighten up and keep from losing my grip.” As a result
of that, any chances of getting to having awareness of past existences are
suppressed as well. So, one, as an individual, has to overcome all these
cultural prejudices toward clairvoyance and being aware of prior lifetimes. The
people who have written on such things are usually regarded as strictly crazy
or frauds or, indeed, sick, misguided individuals with overactive
imaginations. Therefore, you can see how we would suppress that emerging
influence. But, privately you can work on it. If you get yourself
to the point by following the Great Virtues, where you have a highly uplifted
character with obviously more refined vibratory signals that inherent to you
as an Ego, you begin to have a natural rapport and reception of both planes
and your Egoic—your natural Egoic ability to perceive individuals and have
mind-to-mind contact on the Astral—can then be functional while you are
physically incarnate, so that you can impress that same information on your
brain as you are receiving it Egoically. And, you
can do that at a distance: go away from your body and perceive things that
are happening, perhaps, on the other side of the earth, but maintain a
connection with your brain because you don’t go fully asleep. You are in a
twilight state. Some people call it a light trance state and are, under those
circumstances, able to send information back to your brain while you are
picking it up Egoically. Then, the very information that you are picking up is then being transferred into your brain’s memory-banks
for later review. That is what we call Astral Traveling. Maybe my use of terms is
really kind of far-out and crude. I am sorry to say that the English language
really does not have precise terminology for these phenomena because they do
not recognize it. For instance, the Hindu have all
the words necessary, but if you can start using Hindu words, nobody knows
what they mean in English. So, we stumble around
trying to create pictures in people’s minds with English words and it is not
the easiest thing to do for people to pick them up. So,
you are shaking your head trying to get clear what I am talking about. I can
understand that. If you play with the concept, though, in private for a while,
it does begin to clear up and you begin to see how the mechanism can, indeed, work. If it encourages you
to try it, all for the good because you may discover that, indeed, you have
that ability. (11-1981) |
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