THE SIDDHIS                                                    SIDDHILN.TXT
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THE WORD SIDDHI IN SANSKRIT MEANS POWER, AS IS SPIRITUAL OR PSYCHIC POWER.

MANY ARE INTERESTED IN PSYCHIC POWERS, USUALLY THE INTEREST IS IN DEVELOPING
THE INTENSIC DORMANT POWERS THAT THE EASTERN TEACHERS STATE ALL HUMANS HAVE.

FEW PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO DEVELOP THESE "SKILLS".
SOME OF THE REASONS THEY DO NOT ARE THAT MOST HUMANS:

1. HAVE LITTLE OR NO CONTROL OVER THEIR MINDS.

2. TEND TO BE LAZY.

3. LACK SELF-DISIPLINE.

4. HAVE A BELIEF SYSTEM THAT SAYS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
THE POWERS ARE NOT REAL-THAT IS, DO NOT EXIST, ARE EVIL, CAN ONLY BE
DEVELOPED BY CERTAIN PEOPLE.

THIS IS AN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT PROBLEM AS MOST PEOPLE HAVE NOT ONE SET OF
BELIEFS BUT TWO. THE CONSCIOUS BELIEFS AND THE BELIEFS THAT EXIST BELOW
THEIR CONSCIOUS AWARENESS (SOMETIMES CALLED THE SUB-CONSCIOUS).
THE LATTER ARE USUALLY PROGRAMED INTO A PERSON BEFORE AGE SEVEN BY PARENTS,
PEER GROUP, RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND CULTURE.

5. HAVE LITTLE OR NO UNDERSTANDING OF WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE AND OFTEN HAVE
LOW SELF ESTEEM.

6. WANT TO DEVELOP POWERS FOR INAPPROPRIATE USE.
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WHEN THE MASTERS ARE ASKED ABOUT THE SIDDHIS, THEY OFTEN SAY:
"THE SIDDHIS DO EXIST. MOST HUMANS CAN DEVELOP THEM. THEY CAN BE A TRAP."

WITHOUT A STRONG WILL, PRE-TRAINING, STRONG SELF-DISPLINE AND MUCH PRACTICE,
A PERSON IS NOT LIKELY TO DEVELOP SIDDHIS !

MANY METHODS FOR DEVELOPING POWERS DEPEND ON VISUALIZATION. SOME DO NOT.

IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT A PERSON WHO PRACTICES MEDITATION ONE TO
THREE TIMES A DAY, EACH AND EVERY DAY BEGIN DEVELOPING POWERS WITHOUT
ANY CONSCIOUS EFFORT ON THEIR PART TO DO SO.

THE SIDDHIS OFTEN TEND TO BE SPERATIC UNTIL ONE IS "HIGHLY DEVELOPED".
THAT IS SOMETIMES A PERSON CAN MANIFEST AND USE A POWER AND OTHER TIMES
THEY CAN NOT.

THE SKILLS OFTEN NEEDED TO DEVELOP THE SIDDHIS ARE, BEING ABLE TO:
MAKE THE MIND ONE-POINTED, STOP ALL THOUGHTS FROM OCCURING IN THE MIND, 
CONTROL THE BREATHING, GAZE AT AN OBJECT FOR LONG TIME PERIODS WITHOUT
THE EYES BLINKING OR TEARING, INTONE CERTAIN SOUNDS
(IN THE SANSKRIT LANGUAGE, WHICH IS THE LANGUAGE OF POWER) AND
VISUALIZING IN GREAT DETAIL.

USUALLY THE PRELIMARY TRAINING CONSISTS OF MEDITATION AND BREATHING EXERZIES.
ONCE ONE CAN MOVE INTO A DEEP MEDITATIVE STATE AT WILL AND INDUCE SOLAR
BREATING, OR LUNAR BREATHING AND COMBINE THE TWO TYPES OF BREATING SO BOTH CAN
OCCUR AT THE SAME TIME EQUALLY, AT WILL, THEN ONE MOVES ON TO EXPERMINTING WITH
VISUALIZATIONS.

THE TWO MOST SUCCESFUL TRAINING METHODS FOR DEVELOPING SIDDHIS  WHICH REMAINS
SEPARATE FROM "SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS" IS ARE:
1. THE SILVA MIND CONTROL METHODS.
(HEAVY ON VISUALIZATION)

2. SELF-HYPNOSIS METHODS
(THE SKILLS ARE LEARNED IN TRANCE, USED OUTSIDE OF TRANCE.)

3.THE TIBETIAN ADEPTS ARE OFTEN TAUGHT TO BECOME LUCID IN THEIR DREAMS AND
THEN LEARN TO MANIFEST AND USE SIDDHIS IN THE DREAM UNIVERSE.
AND AFTER THEY HAVE DONE THIS, THESE SKILLS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE WAKING STATE.

SOME TIBETIAN TEXTS STATE:

THAT PRACTICE AND OR A PRACTICE, LIKE MEDITATION, PERFORMED IN A LUCID DREAM
STATE IS NINE TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE.
THAT SINCE IN THE DREAM STATE, ONE HAS MORE ACCESS TO PSYCHIC ENERGY AND MANY
OF THE BELIEFS HELD BY A PERSON THAT INHIBIT THE PERSON FROM MANIFESTING
SIDDHIS ARE "SUSPENDED", SO IT IS EASIER TO MANIFEST AND LEARN TO USE PSYCHIC
POWERS.

MANY RESPECTED TEXTS OLD, NEW, AND SCRIPTURAL STATE THAT ANYTHING YOU PRACTICE
AND LEARN IN THE DREAM STATE IS LEARNED JUST AS WELL AS IF YOU LEARNED IT
IN THE WAKING STATE. I.E. IF YOU PLAY GUITAR A LITTLE AND PRACTICE PLAYING
EVERY NIGHT IN YOUR DREAMS, YOUR PLAYING IN THE WAKING STATE IMPROVES AT LEAST
AS MUCH AS IF YOU HAD DONE ALL THE PRACTICE WHEN YOU WERE AWAKE.

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