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Latent Occult Powers Are Being Recognised and Acknowledged · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Our attitude to the development of what many call psychic powers
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  is ambivalent at best. Our popular culture is awash
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  with movies, books, television programs, and any number of
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  healers, psychics and occult practitioners plying their trade
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  in our society. At the same time, while these
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  themes and services are extremely popular, we tend to
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  try to dismiss them as being something less than real because
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  of the impalpable nature of some of these powers, as well as due
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  to the amount of deception and outright fraud that has been
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  committed under the sign of some of these powers by those who
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  want to take advantage of the gullible.
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  Who cannot distinguish the true from the false in a field that
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  is just emerging in our lives in a serious way?
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  Those who have real experiences sometimes are afraid to speak
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  about them through fear that they will be ridiculed or even
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  ostracized. The actress Shirley MacLaine
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  broke ground by describing some of her experiences, and in
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  particular an astral projection experience she lived through in
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  her book and the film made from the book Out on a Limb.
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  It is clear that a large number of people have at some time in
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  their lives extraordinary experiences that they cannot
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  explain away with the normal justifications and which they
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  understand intuitively relate to a deeper reality and purpose
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  than they recognize in their outer consciousness.
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  There are documented cases of people experiencing a sense of a
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  beloved relative at the moment of death on a battlefield.
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  On the other side of the world, there are numerous instances of
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  remote viewing, and elite military units in Russia and the
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  USA have in fact worked on developing powers of this type
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  as military weapons. Energetic healing modalities
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  have gained enormous popularity due to their effectiveness both
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  in their own right and as an adjunctive therapy to allopathic
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  treatments to help mitigate side effects and pain and speed
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  healing. Hypnotism has been used in lieu
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  of anesthetic, in some cases quite successfully.
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  The connection between mind and body has been validated, and the
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  ability of the mind to aid in the healing process is no longer
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  seriously contested. Another sign that occult powers
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  can influence things in the external world, Doctor de Lal
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  notes quote When people think of latent powers, especially in the
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  East, they often think of occult powers mentioned a little
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  earlier. There are different attitudes
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  both in the West and the East towards such powers.
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  In the West, where such powers are generally called psychic
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  abilities, the majority of people look upon them with
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  skepticism, attributing belief in them to credulity and
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  gullibility. However, a growing number of
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  Westerners do believe in the veracity of abilities claimed by
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  the psychics, such as the ability to obtain information
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  through extracentratory perception, to affect objects
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  and persons from a distance, to heal by invisible means, and the
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  like. Despite their erratic nature,
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  such abilities have been sporadically employed in
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  numerous fields, including medicine and dentistry,
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  psychotherapy and counseling, police work, agriculture,
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  archaeology, and many others. End Quote.
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  Reference. Srioro Bindu and the Mother
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  Powers within introduction pages.
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  Roman 10:50.