Clairvoyance
As he hung on the cross, Jesus is reported to have exhorted God to forgive his tormentors for they did not know what they were doing.
In a film on the life of Meera , the condemned Rajput princess absolves her prosecutors of the sin of her murder because they are ignorant of her reality.
Today, the very fact that a debate and discussion has been initiated on the topic of clairvoyance and all its attendant offshoots like hypnosis, alternative or pranic healing and parapsychology shows that we have moved into a golden age in the ongoing evolution of man. I think we are finally ready to acknowledge that there is more to man than just the mind and body and that he is in fact a trinity comprising mind, body and spirit. We are ready finally to admit that there is much in the realm of the spirit which we haven’t been able to rationalize or measure with our mind’s intelligence but whose effects we have seen and felt at a much deeper level of our consciousness.
No one in the East especially in India can deny that science, education, wealth, status and social recognition are no prerequisites in the search for everlasting truths or spiritual evolution. Meera, a princess born and wed into untold wealth and prestige leaves her home and family and pays homage to Sant Raidas, a low caste tanner, for raising her consciousness to a higher level. Kabir, Surdas, Sai Baba, Jesus were all ordinary men yet extraordinary in their insights and with an amazing ability to heal those who came to them with trust and faith. Gautam Buddha as Prince Siddharth had all that a man can desire in his wordly life, yet it was only after his renunciation of all attachments and deep meditation that he was transformed into the godhead whom the world reveres.
Science may not have answers for the world of the spirit but it exists as a form of energy much higher than that of the energy of the mind. I believe that while some people may have retained their links with a higher consciousness by birth, there are others who have striven hard to evolve to that level through meditation, ritual cleansing of the mind and body, extensive spriritual study and practice.
In the course of these last few years, I have come across astrologers who use numerical calculations, palm top computers and other modern gadgets to give credence to their ability to leap across time to predict the future. I have met people who are so sensitive that they sense the aura of the people who walk into a room and can tell them things that will transpire with them. At the same time I have also been privileged to interact with intelligent, and gifted doctors who practice what our scientific community would refer to as alternative medicine but which seems to me to be a more natural way of healing as it comprises regulating the energy flow of the body and removing obstructions in the energy field around the patient. For effective treatment one has to lay bare one’s heart and mind and body to the healer and I think therein lies the answer to man’s resistance to these phenomenon.
Society has entrapped us with so many taboos and restrictions that the thought of exposing our conscience and soul before another is a difficult and frightening thought. Furthermore once we acknowledges that there are some people who are gifted and sensitive and have some unique ability then we also have to accept that many of us haven’t reached the same levels of super consciousness and this hurts our ego and sense of self importance. It is easier to denigrate something that we do not understand rather than admitting that we have failed to reach the same state.
However, the very fact that we are acknowledging that there is something unexplained and yet felt which has been experienced by many of us is a form of giving it credence. Maybe scientists will one day find answers to many of these manifestations and then we can say that man has truly evolved and that will be the advent of the Satyug which Indian philosophy tells us about.
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