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Everybody Practices Occultism, Whether They Realize It or Not · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  People proudly deny occultism with a laugh and a smirk about
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  how unreal it is and how people are taken in by the occult
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  sciences. They state their dependence on
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  what is real and solid and palpable to their senses.
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  Seeing is believing, they say. They frequently pound on the
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  table to prove how real what they believe in happens to be.
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  Yet when given the opportunity to objectify what they do in
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  their lives, they reveal that they too are practitioners of
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  occult arts, things that are not so palpable or solid as they
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  profess. In their attempt to minimize the
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  value of occultism, they are asked how they decide to do
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  something, and they indicate they think about it.
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  Thought of course, is not something external, real and
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  palpable. It is something inward, unseen,
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  a cult if you will. They are asked how they succeed
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  in their careers or anything they do, be it sports, hobbies
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  or development of their family life and they respond that it is
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  through the use of their strong willpower.
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  When asked how they came up with some invention or creative
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  solution, they will talk about how they possess the power of
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  imagination or they saw something in their mind's eye.
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  Another not so solid, palpable or visible occult power.
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  Many of these same people wind up having a meaningful dream
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  which they describe in great detail and explain how it
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  impacted their lives. Or they wind up having a near
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  death experience or having a feeling of Deja Vu in certain
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  circumstances. Sometimes they play the lottery
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  and if they win, they explain how they suddenly felt like they
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  knew what numbers to choose. Or they had a dream they meet
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  someone and it turns into a lifetime love with their soul
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  mate. People utilize the power of
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  prayer to aid them in their lives.
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  Some people come back from a military engagement and indicate
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  that their friend was killed or injured, but somehow they were
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  at that very moment called away survivors of an unavoidable
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  death, and they felt like some higher power protected them.
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  Occasionally they may feel like they even have some kind of
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  guardian Angel watching over and protecting them, or else that
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  God is managing to do that so that he can save their souls.
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  They would, of course, deny that any of this has anything to do
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  with occultism. We get the picture.
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  Those who openly acknowledge, at least to themselves, that they
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  utilize occult powers that lie within each of us have the best
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  opportunity to consciously develop, train, and practice the
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  use of these powers to optimize them, to explore other
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  underutilized or unrecognized powers and truly realize their
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  potential within the realm of their human capacities.
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  Not to speak of further evolutionary opportunities that
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  open to them once they have become receptive to the occult
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  forces that operate within and around them.
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  The Mother notes quote everybody practices occultism without
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  knowing that he does. Everybody has this power
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  spontaneously but doesn't know he has it.
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  It may be a very slight one, like a pinhead.
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  It may be as vast as the earth or even the universe.
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  But you cannot live without practicing occultism, only you
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  don't know it when you think I have explained this to you, I
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  don't know how many times. When you think you are
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  practicing occultism only, you don't know it.
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  When you are thinking of someone, some part of you is
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  automatically in contact with this person, and if to your
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  thought is added a will that this person may be like this or
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  like that, or understand this or that, whatever it may be, well,
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  you are practicing occultism, only you don't know it.
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  There are people who do this with power, and when they have a
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  strong thought, it manifests and is realized.
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  There are people in whom it is very feeble and they do not
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  obtain many results. It depends on the power of your
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  thought and also on your power of concentration.
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  But this kind of occultism everybody practices without even
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  knowing it. So the difference from someone
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  who really practices occultism is that he knows he is doing it
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  and perhaps how he does it. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Orobindo and the Mother Powers within Chapter 2.
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  Power of Thought, pages 17 to 18.