Chapter 3: Dangers in dabbling

When people try to open out psychically, for whatever reason, they usually try to attain altered states of consciousness. Since our unconscious provides access to every thought and feeling there has ever been, at any time, it would seem wiser to protect oneself and create some filters. In computer-speak, down-load a firewall program. The best firewall, the best protection, comes with the genuine effort to overcome our worst reactions; to know and overcome our failings; being prepared to change our attitude.
When a person opens out their mind seeking the ‘psychic’ it is like inviting all and sundry in, without discrimination. We may not like what we get! Since most of us react badly when we are under pressure, it is only to be expected that our worst reactions are intensified by giving outlet, not only to ourself but a whole host of other ‘like-minded people’, alive and dead. In other words we attract to us what we are. If we do not gain some self-control over our own worst reactions, how will we be able to control influences we cannot see, hear, touch or judge by any normal means.

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A Biological Foundation

My interest quickened over twenty years ago, when I first read Dr. Rupert Sheldrake’s book The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature. I was delighted to find a scientist who was taking such a down-to-earth approach. As a biologist, Dr. Sheldrake has advanced our understanding of how life develops.

His hypothesis of Formative Causation suggests that in addition to our genetic inheritance there are organising fields called morphogenetic fields (as in electrical fields, gravitational fields and magnetic fields). He suggests that morphogenetic fields are within and around the systems they organise, and each system draws on the appropriate memory of past systems using ‘morphic resonance’. For example, the morphogenetic field of an oak tree is in and around the tree, and the memory it draws on comes from past trees by morphic resonance. As such, habits in nature, built up over millennia, continue to affect and inform all new life, from conception onwards. For me, it was reassuring to read Dr. Sheldrake’s work. His approach to the science of life, viewing all of our sensory perceptions as being as natural to humans as they are to animals, appealed to me much more than the outdated concept of the supernatural.

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Chapter 18: Carl Jung and me.

Dreams and their meanings were at the core of Carl Jung’s research into the unconscious mind and the part it plays in human nature. His work has brought a deeper understanding to the purpose of dreams and to how, through a process he named ‘individuation’, we can bring our conscious and unconscious mind into closer union, and, in doing so, make our lives more fruitful and complete.

In the spring of 1959, the British Broadcasting Corporation showed an in-depth interview with Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, eminent psychiatrist and Founder of Analytical Psychology, on television. The series was called ‘Face to Face’. As a result, Dr. Jung received many letters from people whom he would not normally have had contact with but who were attracted by his personality and his ideas on life and human potential. His usual correspondence was with doctors and psychiatrists, so Jung was very pleased to receive letters from the general public and from people who had no medical or psychiatric training. Up until that time, he had no wish to popularise his work and his published works were considered too difficult for popular reading.
However, this was soon to change! Carl Jung considered the interpretation of dreams to be very important and influential in understanding the psychology of human beings. Indeed, understanding dreams was central to Jung’s analytical work. In the last years of his life, he dreamed he was standing in a public place addressing a multitude of people who were listening to him with keen interest. More importantly, they were also understanding what he said. This dream convinced him to write about his work in a way that could be understood by the general reader. To accomplish this, Jung asked a friend, John Freeman, to edit his work so that it could be more easily understood. Thus the book Man and his Symbols came into being and established my unlikely link to Carl Jung.

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Chapter 24: Consciousness

After thirty-five years of a personal observations and direct experience into human nature, the most significant issues I have examined are:

Human beings are affected by the thoughts and feelings of other people, both living and dead, and are more vulnerable to this influence when either unaware of it or denying it than when accepting it.
Life extends over two phases: a physical, mental and emotional life until physical death, and then a mental and emotional presence after death—one that finds expression through a close, sympathetic relative or friend.
Consciousness transcends death. It appears to be an all-encompassing ‘field’ that, free from the restrictions of the speed of light, allows information to pass from one source to another in many different ways, including via dreams, telepathy, and thought transference, but also through vibrations and physical associations. It must be a universal field that functions across planets and galaxies in our Universe.
We are not alone in the Universe. We are, and probably always have been, influenced by a more advanced species that resides or exists elsewhere—an indication that consciousness is not confined to our planet.
We are vulnerable to the influence of other personalities both seen and unseen, as well as a variety of fields such as electro-magnetic, gravitational, quantum, and morphic fields.
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake’s research points the way to a greater scientific understanding of human sensory faculties through the study of biology, and not simply psychology.
Precognition is a fact, but our understanding of space and time is still not complete enough to allow us to understand how or why it works.

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An Advanced Intelligence.

Throughout this book I have emphasised how vulnerable we are to the influence of other people’s thoughts, feelings and physical state. However, we can be equally influenced by an unseen presence. I have written about sensitivity and the use of our extra-sensory faculties in the receiving and transmitting of information. The ‘pick-up’ from another person it is usually very basic; a direct overlay of that person’s mental, emotional and/or physical states. Read on

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All Our Senses

We humans normally regard ourselves as having five senses, with possibly a ‘sixth’ sense. My own experience over the past thirty-four years has shown that for every one of those senses; sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch, there is a double. I call these additional senses ‘mind senses’ or mental senses because they are experienced as seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, within our mind. The first time I experienced mind-sight, was in 1977. I recall seeing, on what resembled a small TV screen out in front of me, an accident between a car and a motor bike. The whole scene was in brilliant colour. This minor accident happened the next day when a motor cyclist ran into the rear wing of my car. Fortunately, no-one was hurt and there was little damage. Read on

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Extra-sensory perception

A Complete Take-over.

I had a puzzling experience last year when I had surgery on my left shoulder. The anaesthetist administered a pain block which normally lasts for about thirty hours, doing away with the need morphine as a pain relief. Apparently, as I began to regain consciousness after surgery I must have been showing signs of considerable pain because the nurses taking care of me, were urgently seeking morphine to reduce the pain. I was barely aware of what was happening. The next day when my anaesthetist visited me, she told me that the pain block had been functioning perfectly during the surgery; it was only when I was in recovery that it became obvious I was in considerable pain. She could not explain this. I had been administered pain blocks in previous surgeries and they had always blocked pain for over twenty-four hours.

There is always a good reason for any event in my life, so I set my mind to reason out the purpose to that experience. Four months prior to my surgery a good friend of mine died. He had been fighting cancer and resisted taking morphine for pain relief because for him, that meant death and he was fighting to live. A few days before he died he finally accepted morphine and in doing so, he accepted his death.

He and I understood each other well and so strong was this connection that on his death his consciousness became embedded in me; he took over and lived his fears and feelings through me, as he adjusted to his life after death. Gradually I came to understand why the pain block had only worked while I was under the anaesthetic. As I slowly returned to consciousness after the surgery, his consciousness once again took over; his foremost thoughts were of pain and the need for morphine; these feelings and need were expressed through me. In this way he came to terms with that distressing time and was able to move on.

However the experience does highlight just how we can be affected by someone who has died and the experience was necessary so that I could understand the implications; we need to recognise our own reactions so as to differentiate one from another.

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Sensitivity.

As I mentioned earlier, sensitivity was not something I thought about, until some experiences brought it home to me. On one occasion, I was staying with some friends and one man was very quick witted; he would metaphorically speaking ‘pull the rug from under your feet’ in case you tried doing the same to him! I have never been quick-witted but due to his influence, I reflected his personality and so he got back as good as he gave! It was all good fun! However, my friend did not think so. He could not ‘take’ what he gave, withdrawing into his shell, miserable and hurt. After a while, I began to realise that while it felt good to ‘get one over’, it did not feel so good, when I then picked-up his feelings. I felt his hurt! This taught me about sensitivity and to what degree I could be influenced by another person. It also made me much more aware of how sensitive we all are.

Sensitivity is one of our most useful assets and yet it does cause us problems. Oversensitivity can mean that we react too fast to perceived taunts and threats; this is sensitivity at its most negative. A more positive use of sensitivity is an increased awareness of what is happening around us. It enables us to “pick-up” on other people’s personalities; a little fore-knowledge can be advantageous. However, to do this we have to first know our own reactions, before we can differentiate, one from the other.

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Carl G. Jung.

In 1985 I had a dream in which I saw an unlit lighthouse, built on a solid rock foundation. Above this somewhat sombre image, I saw the name ‘C. G. Jung’. At the time this name meant nothing to me! I had heard of Freud but not of Jung, so it was a pleasant surprise to find a book at my local library, written by C.G. Jung and of course it was ‘Man and his Symbols’. I was excited and anxious to read it; find out what connection there was, between C. G. Jung and me. However, I was puzzled as to why the dream imagery was so sombre; like a black and white etching.

To my amazement there was without doubt a very strong connection, not only with the dream but also, with the process of self-realisation that Carl Jung named, the process of Individuation. I recognised this process because I had been undergoing a similar development; one that I refer to as ‘self-realisation’, since 1976. However there were and are differences!

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A Friend in Need!

There seems to be a deep need to believe in some form of life after death, if only to give a sense of purpose to life here. This need may be merely an egotistical desire to survive. However, my feeling is that there is inherent, within the deep psyche of human beings, a sense of being linked to something ‘beyond’.

We live in times of change where the old standards have gone and we are searching for new ones. Perhaps there is a need to understand after-death states of consciousness, in order for us to establish a new way of viewing life and the best values to live by. Experiencing the mental, emotional and physical states of people alive and dead has shown me that life is; a coming into being, a flourishing to our optimum and then a gradual, physical deterioration until in death, we leave our physical body to decay back into the earth, while we continue to live as a conscious being. The big difference is that now our thoughts and feelings can only be expressed through another person’s physical system; usually someone close to us. Since thoughts and feelings represent the core of a human being; they are what we are. Ultimately, those thoughts and feelings will fade as the ties to our physical life become more tenuous. Into what state they fade; to what are they attracted, I don’t know

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Life after death.

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