Siddhis, spiritual powers, gifts of the spirit, charismata, genius
Divinely conferred power or talent Marinus Jan Marijs
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Siddhis are spiritual, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of spiritual advancement through sadhana (spiritual practices), such as meditation and yoga. There is a related Buddhist term, “Iddhi“, that translates as “psychic powers”, and is often used interchangeably. People who have attained one or more Siddhis are formally known as siddhas. The attainment of Siddhis are typically independent of one another, although it is not uncommon for many Siddhis to arise simultaneously out of the proper conducive state of consciousness.
Etymology
Siddhi is a Sanskrit noun which can be translated as “perfection”, “accomplishment”, “attainment”, or “success”. In Tamil the word Siddhar/Chitthar refers to someone who has attained the Siddhic powers & knowledge. Chitta is pure consciousness/knowledge in Sanskrit also.
Origins
The earliest appearance in Indian history of the idea that magical powers (Pāli iddhi) are generated by spiritual practices, (Pāli jhāna) is the account that appears in the Buddhist canon, in the [Sāmaññaphalasutta] of the [Dīghanikāya].
The Yoga Sutras, of which Patanjali compiled around 400 BCE from many older traditions, goes into great depth about how to obtain the various Siddhis through a scientific-yogic approach.
The term siddhi is later found in the Mahabharata. As a term in the Manusmriti, the Laws of Manu, it refers to the settlement of a debt.
Usage in Hinduism
In the Pancatantra, a siddhi may be the term for any unusual skill or faculty or capability. (Wikipedia)
Concerning Spiritual Gifts
A similar concept is to be found in the bible by St. Paul:
1 Corinthians 12 New International Version (NIV):
12 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
……. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues[d]? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
Spiritual gifts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
For the gifts listed in Isaiah 11:2-3.
In Christianity, spiritual gifts (or charismata) are endowments which may be given by the Holy Spirit. These are the supernatural graces which individual Christians need (or did in the days of the Apostles need) to fulfill the mission of the church. They are described in the New Testament, primarily in 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4. 1 Peter 4 also touches on the spiritual gifts. The gifts are related to both seemingly “natural” abilities and seemingly more “miraculous” abilities, empowered by the Holy Spirit. The two major opposing theological positions on their nature is that they ceased long ago or that they continue (Cessationism versus Continuationism).
Spiritual gifts are distinguished from other graces of the Holy Spirit, such as the fruit of the Spirit and the Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, in that the charismata are to be used for the benefit of others while the fruit of the Spirit and other gifts result in personal sanctification.
Biblical and theological overview
The New Testament contains several lists of spiritual gifts, most authored by St. Paul. While each list is unique, there is overlap.
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Christians believe that the charismata were foretold by the Prophet Joel (2:28) and promised by Christ (Gospel of Mark 16:17,18). This promise was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost and elsewhere as the church spread. In order to correct abuses concerning the spiritual gifts at Corinth, Paul devoted much attention to spiritual gifts in his First Epistle to the Corinthians (chapters 12-14).
In 1 Corinthians 12, two Greek terms are translated as “spiritual gifts”. In verse 1, the word pneumatika (“spirituals” or “things of the Spirit”) is used. In verse 4, charisma is used. This word is derived from the word charis, which means “grace“. In verses 5 and 6, the words diakonia (translated “administrations”, “ministries”, or “service”) and energemata (“operations” or “inworkings”) are used in describing the nature of the spiritual gifts. In verse 7, the term “manifestation (phanerosis) of the Spirit” is used.
From these scriptural passages, Christians understand the spiritual gifts to be enablements or capacities that are divinely bestowed upon individuals. Because they are freely given by God, these cannot be earned or merited. Though worked through individuals, these are operations or manifestations of the Holy Spirit—not of the gifted person. They are to be used for the benefit of others, and in a sense they are granted to the church as a whole more than they are given to individuals. There is diversity in their distribution—an individual will not possess all of the gifts. The purpose of the spiritual gifts is to edify (build up), exhort (encourage), and comfort the church.
It is generally acknowledged that Paul did not list all of the gifts of the Spirit, and many believe that there are as many gifts as there are needs in the body of Christ. The gifts have at times been organized into distinct categories based on their similarities and differences to other gifts. Some divide them into three categories using Old Testament offices. “Prophetic” gifts include any gift involving teaching, encouraging, or rebuking others. “Priestly” gifts include showing mercy and care for the needy or involve intercession before God. “Kingly” gifts are those involving church administration or government. Others categorize them into “gifts of knowledge” (word of wisdom, word of knowledge, distinguishing between spirits), “gifts of speech” (tongues, interpretation, prophecy), and “gifts of power” (faith, healing, miracles).
The gifts have also been categorized as those that promote the inner growth of the church (apostle, prophecy, distinguishing between spirits, teaching, word of wisdom/knowledge, helps, and administration) and those that promote the church’s outer development (faith, miracles, healing, tongues, interpretation of tongues).Proponents of cessationism distinguish between the “extraordinary”, “miraculous”, or “sign” gifts (such as prophecy, tongues, and healing) and the other gifts. Cessationism is held by some Protestants, especially from the Calvinist tradition, who believe that miraculous gifts and their operations were limited to early Christianity and “ceased” afterward. Other Protestants, mainly Pentecostals and charismatics, adhere to the continuationist position, believing that all the spiritual gifts are distributed among Christians by the Holy Spirit and that they are normative in contemporary Christianity. In addition, Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy also continue to believe in and make use of all of the spiritual gifts.
Other spiritual gifts are found in the Old Testament such as:
- Craftsmanship (such as the special abilities given to artisans who constructed the Tabernacle in Exodus 35:30-33)
- Interpretation of dreams (e.g. Joseph and Daniel)
- Composing spiritual music, poetry, and prose
Within Roman Catholic theology there are the four principal qualities (‘Dotes’):
(“Dotes sivc gratiae Spiritus: The gifts of the sublime Spirit ”):
(a) Incorruptibilitas: Incorruptibility and immortality.
(b) Claritas: Brightness, glory.
(c) Agility: The power of moving from place to place, so as to be immediately anywhere that we wish.
(d) Subtilitas: Subtlety or penetrability, that is, being able to pass through material objects.
These qualities are encountered in an Out of the Body Experience.
In Sunni Islam, karamat refers to supernatural wonders performed by Muslim saints. In the technical vocabulary of Islamic religious sciences, the singular form karama has a sense similar to charism, a favor or spiritual gift freely bestowed by God. The marvels ascribed to Muslim saints have included supernatural physical actions, predictions of the future, and “interpretation of the secrets of hearts”. (Wikipedia)
That spiritual powers develop with contact with a transcendent force has been claimed by some of the greatest philosophers, the great Hebrew prophets, Spiritual geniuses like Socrates, Plato, Christ,
St. Paul……
One could ask the question what is the supporting evidence for the existence of these powers? In many cases there are only anecdotal stories and phenomenological descriptions, which do not deliver proof.
Cross-cultural data goes one step further, but are only a starting point.
However for some of this spiritual powers there is more supporting evidence
15 or more of the greatest classical composers, claimed that their compositions where inspired by a transcendent source.
The reality of Out of the body experiences is supported by academic research,
That reincarnation exist is supported by professor Ian Stevenson’s research of more than 2500 cases.
Retro causality has been proven within theoretical physics.
Precognition is instrumentally detectable, see: precognition
The existence of telepathy has by the standards of any other area of science now been proven by meta-analyses.
Teleology finds it support in the fine-tuning in: cosmology, stellar nucleosynthesis, chemistry, biology… and so on.
And synchronicities with multiple independent discoveries.
Clairvoyance is supported by scientific research into the ganzfeld effect and remote viewing.
A list of 500+ spiritual powers, and forms of genius:
The following list has been compiled from the mystical literature, (auto) biographies of mystics and highly gifted persons from many cultures, academic (parapsychological) research and personal experiences of the author (MJM).
{The levels refer to the 12 ontological levels}.
Visions: Visions and levels, the ability to perceive on succeeding ontological levels of existence:
(A vision is something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially a supernatural appearance that conveys a revelation. Visions generally have more clarity than dreams, but traditionally fewer psychological connotations. Visions are known to emerge from spiritual traditions and could provide a lens into human nature and reality. Prophecy is often associated with visions.) (Wikipedia)
Level 1 Perception of etheric energies;
Level 2 Premonition: impressions, not visual. Direct perception of feelings
. and moods of others;
Level 3 Mostly two-dimensional images, 25-35° field of vision,
. symbolic/allegorical. Although pre-logical, it can express trans-
. logical insights. But can be understood only by symbolic
. interpretation;
Level 4 Two or three-dimensional images, 25-35° field of vision, realistic,
. the content of the image is not symbolic;
Level 5 Three-dimensional image (including depth) 180° field of vision,
. realistic. Image fills the entire field of vision;
Level 6 Three-dimensional image, panoramic field of vision, realistic.
Image fills the entire field of vision;
Level 7 Three-dimensional image, shifting panoramic field of vision,
. realistic. Image fills the entire field of vision. Deep and clear
. perception of situations;
Level 8 Wavelike patterns, spiral like patterns of subtle energies
Level 9 Archetypes, sphere-like structures of subtle energies;
Level 10 Light experiences, illuminations, visual perception of Deva’s,
. Seraphim, wheel-like structures of subtle energies;
Level 11 Visual perception this level, not form-aspect but energy-aspect;
Level 12 Harmonic light-, colour- and sound-patterns.
Time perception – (normal: linear time progress to the future in one direction)
Ability to simultaneously perceiving the present and the future
Ability to simultaneously perceiving the present and the past
Ability to simultaneously perceiving the present and the past and the future
Ability for the perception of teleological principles, forces
Ability for the perception of fractal patterns in time (1/4 process)
Ability for the perception of synchronicities (axial period….)
Ability for the perception of retro causal working attractors
Ability for the perception of destiny, providence
Ability for the perception of cyclical patterns (425 year pattern)
Ability for the perception of archetypical influences
Ability for the perception of seriality (425 year pattern)
Ability for the perception of a sequential chain of happenings in a split second
Movement perception:
Ability for the perception of energy currents through chakras, nadis, auras and surrounding fields.
Ability for the feeling of absolute motionless and at the same time
incredible acceleration (Mira Alfassa)
Non-physical Movement:
Ability for the generating an Out of Body Experience
Ability for the step by step movement during OBE
Ability for the floating during OBE
Ability to go through a tunnel during OBE
Ability for the Non local, direct translocation during OBE
Ability for the translocation through a portal – in space
Ability for the translocation through a portal – in time
Ability for the translocation through a portal – in space and time
Ability for the translocation through a portal – to another ontological level
Sense of direction –very strong capacity for spatial orientation, by which one
can feel in which direction a person or a place is, by recognizing an identity signal.
Intuitive navigation, ability to track people/locations/objects with one’s mind
–To feel a magnetic pull towards the direction to the
target.
–ability to create mental maps of an area.
Ability for non-local resonance:
Ability for emotional resonance – feeling the mood of others
Ability for telepathy – transfer of information by non-sensory means
Ability for mental resonance – feeling of impressions, information, mood
and awareness of others by non-sensory means
Ability for mental communion -Unitive mental connection with other person(s)
Ability for mental communication with humanity – mental connection
with (total) humanity
Ability for union with humanity – trans sensory union with the whole of
humanity
Ability for world process union – being a part of the immanent trans-physical
processes that penetrate the world
Ability for low subtle realm union – communication with subtle light
energies
Ability for high subtle realm union – communication and union with subtle
energy concentrations. Teleological forces
Ability for low causal union – union, oneness with Kosmic forces
Ability for high causal union/identity – Divine union, oneness
Supreme identity
Ability to perceive non-physical beings, Devas, Angels:
(Isiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Socrates his Guiding spirit, Teresa van Avila, Geoffrey Hodson),
St. Paul’s distinguishing between spirits :(St. Paul distinguished 9 categories,
who correspond to 9 different ontological levels):
Level 2 -To Feel the presence of Angels
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Angels
-To be in union with Angels
Level 3 -To Feel the presence of Archangels
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Archangels
-To be in union with Archangels
Level 4 -To Feel the presence of Virtues
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Virtues
-To be in union with Virtues
Level 5 -To Feel the presence of Powers
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Powers
-To be in union with Powers
Level 6 -To Feel the presence of Principalities
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Principalities
-To be in union with Principalities
Level 7 -To Feel the presence of Dominions
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Dominions
-To be in union with Dominions
Level 8 -To Feel the presence of Thrones
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Thrones
-To be in union with Thrones
Level 9 -To Feel the presence of Cherubim
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Cherubim
-To be in union with Cherubim
Level10 -To Feel the presence of Seraphim
-To see the colours, shape, movement patterns of the Seraphim
-To be in union with Seraphim
Non-physical perception:
Ability for Cold perception – feeling of non-physical energetic currents
Ability for Warmth perception – highly energetic subtle energy concentration is
. perceived as warmth (aura energy of people, ecstatic glow)
. – feeling glowing radiation
. – feeling liquid light
Taste perception – non-physical taste perception of high level subtle energies
. (nectar-like)
– multiple, 5 different kinds of nectar-like subtle energies
Pressure perception –is different from physical pressure perception
(more like feeling fields)
Equilibrium perception – especially during OBE floating, weightlessness
Ability for visual perception at a distance
Ability to visually perceive with birds eye view, (vision).
Ability to visually perceive with birds eye view, (OBE).
Ability to perceive form creating structures – archetypes, prototypes
Ability to perceive on another scale than 1 : 1
Ability to perceive on a microscopic level – for example the mitochondria
Ability to perceive on an atomic level – for example the atomic raster
Ability to perceive on a subatomic level – for example the superstring
Ability to perceive on a Mondial/planetary scale (Joe McMoneagle)
Ability to perceive on an extra-planetary scale (solar system) (Ingo Swann)
Ability to perceive on a cosmic scale – for example the milky way
Ability to perceive structures which have more than 3 spatial dimensions
Ability to perceive with a 360° field of vision
Ability to perceive the evolutionary divine force
Ability to perceive the ground of existence
Ability to perceive the unity of existence
Ability to perceive the world process energy
Ability to perceive immanent energies
Ability to perceive transformational energies – transformations
. of energy levels
Ability to perceive subtle non-physical energies:
colour perception of three dimensional subtle energies,
. (auras, thought forms, orbs, waves of subtle energies)
Ability to perceive etheric energies on level 1
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 2
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 3
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 4
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 5
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 6
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 7
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 8
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 9
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 10
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 11
Ability to perceive subtle energies on level 12
Ability to perceive non-physical form structures:
colour perception of three dimensional form structures,
(persons, buildings, landscapes)
Ability to perceive form structures on etheric level 1
Ability to perceive form structures on level 2
Ability to perceive form structures on level 3
Ability to perceive form structures on level 4
Ability to perceive form structures on level 5
Ability to perceive form structures on level 6
Ability to perceive form structures on level 7
Ability to perceive form structures on level 8
Ability to perceive form structures on level 9
Ability to perceive form structures on level 10
Ability to perceive form structures on level 11
Ability to perceive form structures on level 12
The experience of high levels of mystical ecstasy:
Experiencing of feeling low subtle energy concentration – ecstatic glow
Experiencing of feeling high subtle energy concentration – flame like ecstasy
Experiencing of feeling low causal energy concentration – nectar like ecstasy
Experiencing of feeling high causal energy concentration – ecstatic radiation
Experiencing of seeing low subtle energy concentration – ecstatic glow
Experiencing of seeing high subtle energy concentration – flame like ecstasy
Experiencing of seeing low causal energy concentration – nectar like ecstasy
Experiencing of seeing high causal energy concentration – ecstatic radiation
Experiencing low subtle Bhava samadhi
Experiencing high subtle Bhava samadhi
Experiencing low causal Bhava samadhi
Experiencing high causal Bhava samadhi
Perception of the psychic atmosphere of places, surroundings:
(Atmosphere: definition: the mood, character, quality, tone, ambiance, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu)
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 2
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 3
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 4
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 5
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 6
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 7
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 8
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 9
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 10
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 11
Ability to perceive the atmosphere on level 12
Higher cognitive development:
The ability for paradigmatic shifts
The ability for cross-paradigmatic shifts
The ability for cross-paradigmatic shifts in multiple domains
Perception of intuitions – direct insight in underlying patterns (Poincare)
Perception of inspirations – a stream of multiple insights (composers)
Perception of revelations – a stream of multiple inspirations (mystics)
Knowledge by union
Knowledge by supreme identity
Reincarnation:
Remembering previous lives (professor Ian Stevenson’s research)
The ability to scan previous lives of others
The ability to “read” the Akasha chronicles, knowledge of kosmic records
. representing the accumulated knowledge of humankind
. (book of Ervin Laszlo)
Higher mystical development:
The ability to be in a contemplative state
The ability to be in a meditative state
The ability to be in nirvana
The ability to be in parinirvana
The ability to be in mahaparinirvana
The ability to be in turiya
The ability to be in turiyatita
The ability to have turiyatita vision (Leadbeater’s perception of meta-neon)
Kundalini activation:
Kundalini activation low subtle level
Kundalini activation high subtle level
Kundalini activation low causal level
Kundalini activation high causal level
Permanent kundalini activation and a structural reorganization of the physical
. body at cellular level; Krishnamurti, Gopi Krishna, Mira Alfassa
Paranormal healing:
The ability to paranormal diagnose diseases
Medical intuition, the ability to diagnose in an intuitively nonlinear manner
The ability to for healing – increase the vitality energy of others
. – to strengthen etheric structures of others
Flow: {Nakamura and Csíkszentmihályi identify the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow. Intense and focused concentration on the present moment
- Merging of action and awareness
- A loss of reflective self-consciousness
- A sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity
- A distortion of temporal experience, one’s subjective experience of time is altered
- Experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience .(Wikipedia)}
The ability to generate flow
The ability to generate permanent flow
The ability to generate permanent flow in multiple domains.
1. Flow on a physical level – the athlete/ dancer (in the zone) Complex highly
efficient physical coordination
2. Flow on an emotional level – the actor, outstanding ability to express a broad
range of emotions
3. Flow on a representational level – the painter, capable of producing visual
images/representational paintings of a very high quality
4. Flow on a concrete operational level – play writer, capable of producing
complex coherent linguistic structures
5. Flow on a formal operational level – scientist, deep insight into the structure
of reality
6. Flow on an existential level – existentialist, capacity for paradigmatic shifts
7. Flow on an integral level – integral philosopher, complex pattern recognition
in multiple multi-layered perspectives
8. Flow on a holistic level – translogical intuition, the capacity of knowing or
understanding through direct insight, without rational analysis or deductive
thinking.
9. Flow on a low subtle level – inspiration, a burst of creativity in an artistic
endeavour.
10. Flow on a high subtle level – revelation, in the sense that something suddenly,
with unspeakable certainty and subtlety, becomes visible
11. Flow on a low causal level – mystical union, a state of oneness
12. Flow on a high causal level – supreme identity with the Kosmos
Shaktipat: The ability to transmit spiritual energy of the power of illumined existence to others who are sufficiently receptive or ready in their personal growth:
The ability to generate Shaktipat
The ability to generate strong Shaktipat (Adi Da)
The ability to generate very strong Shaktipat (includes the ability to activate
. paranormal abilities/siddhis, in others)
The ability to have a transformative effect on others
The ability to have a transformative effect on humanity (Moses, Buddha, Christ,
. Mahavira, Mohammed, St Paul).
Integrated functioning:
Integrated functioning up to and including the integral level
Integrated functioning up to and including the holistic level
Integrated functioning up to and including the low subtle level
Integrated functioning up to and including the high subtle level
Integrated functioning up to and including the low causal level
Integrated functioning up to and including the high causal level
Genius:
One or more forms of genius; (Newton)
More forms of genius; (Da Vinci, Michelangelo)
Multiple forms of genius; (Hildegard Von Bingen, Maimonides,
. Martin Luther King)
Telekinesis:
Micro telekinesis (mind – brain interaction)
Macro telekinesis (Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung)
Levitation (Theresa of Avila, St. Francis of Assisi, Joseph of Cupertino,
. Daniel Dunglas Home)
Materializations (Florence Cook, Scole experiment)
Supramentalisation:
Generating of 5X5 subtle energy particles
Generating of cellular consciousness- Krishnamurti, Gopi Krishna, Mira Alfassa
Generating of Supramentalisation (Aurobindo)
Generating of Divanisation
Generating of a multidimensional cathedral subtle energy field
Generating of peacock feather rings of subtle energy structures
Generating of a bindu (the blue pearl) coupling
Participating in planetary evolution in tune with the super-conscient Being
Activation of an Avatar point
Exceptional capacity of energetic tuning
Dreaming:
Lucid dreaming (Book of Celia Green)
The power of interpreting dreams (e.g. Joseph and Daniel, Freud, Jung)
Superb craftsmanship (such as the special abilities given to artisans)
Composing spiritual music (Händel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms,
Strauss, Puccini, Wagner, Sibelius, Grieg, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Schubert
and Liszt Arthur M. Abell: “Talks with great composers”, Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
G.E.Schroeder Verlag, 1964; …..Ennio Morricone
Composing poetry, (Shakespeare, Dante, Rumi, Blake, Whitman, Pushkin,
. Chuang Tzu, Tagore)
Composing prose, mastery of the art of narrative, with deep psychological insight (Balzac, Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Insight:
Insight into multi ontological cross connections (Octagon)
Insight into the Supramentalisation process
Insight into the unity of consciousness
Insight that Atman = Brahman (Erwin Schrodinger)
Insight into why there are levels of consciousness
Insight into how transformations of consciousness do occur
Insight into the difference between complexity development and . ontological development
Insight into the ultimate meaning of life
Insight into karmic processes
Insight into the aim of creation, the teleology
Insight into the nature of a transcendent force (usually identified as God)
Insight into kosmological processes (why there is something instead of
. nothing)
Insight into the ¼ process (exponential development in time)
Insight into the ontological singularity: the Omega point. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
Insight into the working mechanism of Supramentalisation (Aurobindo)
Insight into the working mechanism of the kosmic feedback loops
Insight into the working mechanism of the Ultimate Divinisation
Insight into the processes after the omega point (Twelve phase Time scale)
Kosmic perception:
The perception that Kosmos is alive and conscious.
To perceive the energetic groups behind the five major domains of reality
To become aware of extraordinary mental spaces
The ability to see the origin of the secondary qualities
Contact with transcendent dimensions
The experience that everything is interconnected and has a single source
To be aware of an ‘ultimate reality’
To have direct perceptions of trans-personal realities
Aura:
The ability to see the movement patterns in the aura fields
The ability to see the pulsating of substructures in the aura fields that have
a time constant (4,7 seconds)
Life after death:
The ability to describe life after death based upon many hundreds of OBE’s
Ability for the generating an Out of Body Experience in others while being in an Out of
Body state.
The ability to see why there is a difference in the quality of life after death.
Communication with deceased humans (Swedenborg)
The ability to appear to people after death
The ability for post-mortem communication
The ability for post-mortem healing
The ability to consciously generate or alter form structures in the higher
worlds.
The ability to consciously generate or alter movement patterns in the higher
worlds.
Autoprecognition, the ability to foresee what will happen in one’s own life while
in a disembodied state before birth.
Non-dual awareness:
Non-dual realisation
The ability to have constant awareness. (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
Ability to see the bindu(the blue pearl); the atman point / the monad
The ability to connect with other minds who are engaged in similar mental . activities (multiples)
Knowledge of the origin of things
Knowledge of the origin of the true self
The ability to scan a person at a far distance:
– meaning that one’s own bodily feeling changes into that of the person
that is scanned at a far distance
– meaning that one’s own mood, feelings, attitude, mental functioning and
so on changes into that of the person that is scanned at a far distance
– meaning that one’s own visual perception of the surroundings changes
into that of the person that is scanned at a far distance
The ability to scan a person trans temporal:
– meaning that one’s own bodily feeling changes into that of the person
that is scanned in another time period
– meaning that one’s own mood, feelings, attitude, mental functioning and
so on changes into that of the person that is scanned in another time period
– meaning that one’s own visual perception of the surroundings changes
into that of the person that is scanned in another time period
Integrated, balanced 5 groups field:
On ontological Level 2
On ontological Level 3
On ontological Level 4
On ontological Level 5
On ontological Level 6
On ontological Level 7
On ontological Level 8
On ontological Level 9
On ontological Level 10
On ontological Level 11
On ontological Level 12
Enhanced Intelligence, the ability to increase one or more forms of intelligences, the capability to heightened and enhanced intelligence and other mental abilities/skills. Such an individual can often come up with unique and original ideas that elevates the thinking of humanity to new levels:
Enhanced cognitive intelligence –Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato
Enhanced organising capacity – Mohammed
Enhanced moral intelligence – Christ, Gandhi, Thoreau, Albert Schweitzer,
. Mahavira….
Enhanced social intelligence -Martin Luther King, Harriet Beecher Stowe, . Annie Besant, Desmond Tutu.…
Enhanced technical intelligence -Tesla, Edison, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs
Enhanced scientific intelligence – (Pascal, Einstein, Schrödinger, Heisenberg).
Enhanced linguistic intelligence – (Shakespeare, Balzac, Dante, Rumi,
. Whitman, Tolstoy, Chuang Tzu)
Enhanced aesthetic intelligence – Rembrandt,
Enhanced spiritual intelligence, deep spiritual insight – Christ, Buddha
The ability to function on a ontological higher level:
The ability to function on nature mysticism (Srotapatti)level
The ability to function on low subtle (Sakridagamin)level
The ability to function on high subtle (Anagamin)level
The ability to function on low causal (Arhat)level
The ability to function on high causal (Buddha)level
Exceptional artistic ability:
Spiritual painting (Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Piazetta, ….
Visionary painting (Dore, Dali, Frazetta,….
Exceptional craftsmanship The ability to craft statues, sculpture etc.
. flawlessly.(Michelangelo, Bernini)
Exceptional craftsmanship The ability to craft artifacts, jewellery etc.
. flawlessly.(Tiffany)
Exceptional Song writing that transforms cultural development: (Bob Dylan,
. John Lennon, Paul McCartney,…
Exceptional mental capacities:
Photographic (visual) memory (Stephen Wiltshire) ↓ (drawing from memory)
Photographic memory for written text by conceptual mapping, (absolute recall)
(Gauss, Ampere, A. C. Aitken, John von Neumann, Noam Chomsky)
Photographic memory for written text by perceptual chaining (Shereshevsky)
(in HUNTER, I. M. L. (1977), An exceptional memory. British Journal of Psychology, 68: 155–164. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1977.tb01571.x
An account is given of the exceptional memory of the late Professor A. C. Aitken who was also a distinguished mathematician and mental calculator. Examples are given of his performance in memory-span tasks and his recall of artificial materials learnt under experimental conditions 27 years earlier. His memory is stronger than average in all respects but normal in mode of functioning. It relates to his comprehending materials in terms of rich patterns of multiple, often recondite, properties. Compared with Shereshevsky, another man with exceptional memory, he shows the scholar’s reliance on conceptual mapping rather than the mnemonist’s reliance on perceptual
chaining.)
Exceptional auditory memory for music (Mozart)
Exceptional overall memory (Solomon Shereshevsky)
Exceptional mathematical capacity (Archimedes,Euler, Gauss, Riemann, Descartes,
Newton, Leibniz, Ramanujan, Hilbert, and Turing)
Exceptional mental calculation capacity (A. C. Aitken)
Exceptional verbal communication skills (Martin Luther King)
Exceptional acting skills (Marlon Brando, Meryl Streep)
Exceptional leadership skills (Gandhi, Martin Luther King)
Exceptional intra personal skills (Carl Jung)
Exceptional capacity of athletes to be “In the Zone” (book of Michael Murphy: In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports (non-fiction, update to The Psychic Side of Sports,
co-written with Rhea White) (1995))
Exceptional overall communicative competence
Exceptional multiple perspective taking (Michail Gorbatsjov)
Exceptional capacity for non-sequitur thinking (humour) (Robin Williams)
Exceptional capacity for architectural designing (Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright)
Exceptional musical performance skills (Paganini, Jimi Hendrix)
Exceptional eidetic visual capacity (Nikola Tesla)
Exceptional capacity for theatre
Exceptional capacity for opera
Exceptional capacity musicals
Exceptional capacity for cinema (Ridley Scott , James Cameron)
Exceptional entrepreneurial capacities (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates)
Exceptional capacity to expand one’s worldview (Einstein)
Exceptional insight in economic dynamics (John Maynard Keynes)
Exceptional capacity for cognitive structuring / logic (Aristoteles, Gödel)
Exceptional capacity for philosophy (Plato)
Exceptional capacity for theology (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Exceptional capacity for story telling (Tolkien)
Exceptional capacity for performance art (Kseniya Simonova)
Exceptional capacity for dance (Rudolph Nureyev)
Exceptional linguistic writing skills (James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Samuel
. Beckett)
The ability to see subtle energy fields, chakras and nadis:
The ability to see auras.
The ability to see the nadis
The ability to understand the meaning of the aura colours.
The ability to see the prânas.
The ability to see the chakras (Alaoddawleh Semnani, Hesychastic tradition,
. Hindu and Buddhist mystics in India, Jakob Boehme, Johann Georg Gichtel,
. Hopi Indians in Arizona, Taoists in China, C.W. Leadbeater)
Higher knowledge:
Knowledge, perception of other (ontological) plains of existence
The ability to feel the location of ley lines, alignments of land forms, (the
. Chinese concept of feng shui).
Experience of normally invisible processes of nature
Knowledge of ultimate reality (Being) as the primordial energy or
. matrix of the world.
Knowledge of the ultimate as the eternal Now.
Immediate and intuitive awareness of the ultimate as indescribable and
. unfathomable bliss.
The ability to transcend space and time.
Experiencing multiple Epiphanies.
Experiencing multiple Theophany’s.
Perceiving the whole kosmos within one’s own Self.
Prakamya: if a soul is not resurrected, that is, it is caught somewhere in the
. astral worlds, it is visible to you, and one can use that prakamya
. power to send that soul to a higher dimension. Or if someone is
. asking for help in conquering the prarabdha karma, the
. incurable karma, and one is able to cure that karma and see
. that the person is healed, and lifted from any fall and raised to a
higher height.
Bodhisattva, dedicating oneself, even after the attainment of full
. enlightenment, toward the collective liberation of all.
Knowledge of ultimate reality as non-different from pure consciousness.
Numiniousness, a deeply felt intuition of the rightness of a particular
. situation, and of a world that suddenly makes sense.(F. David Peat)
Insight in the ultimate nature of reality.
Being connected with the ultimate meaning of life.
Dharma Jnana. Knowledge of the cosmic law which controls all operations
. of Nature and guides destinies of human history and civilization.
. It is the law that sustains the cosmic whole as an energy-
. conserving, balance-maintaining, self-adjusting, self-
. recuperative, creative-destructive, evolving-devolving system of
. energy. (fine-tuning)
Exceptional wisdom, a deep understanding about the human condition
. (Lao Tze, Buddha, Plato, Christ)
Traditional signs of sainthood:
Gift of prophesy- Predicting future events
– Predicting future events, beyond ones physical life-span
. – Seeing deeply hidden social and kosmic processes
Luminous irradiance (generating higher aura fields)
Incendium: burning fire of love
Fragrances (odour of sanctity)
Inedia
Incorruption (absence of decay)
Discernment of spirits
Rapid wound healing (Rafai Sufism / fakir)
Invisibility (in an out of the body state)
Exceptional charisma
Ability to hibernate
Mastery of the elements (the 5 subtle energy groups)
Odour of sanctity (Teresa of Ávila, Maravillas of Jesus, Thérèse de Lisieux)
Xenoglossy – ability to speak a language he or she could not have acquired
. by natural means (Dr. Ian Stevenson’s Unlearned Language:
New Studies in Xenoglossy).
. – ability to interpret xenoglossy
Tummo (the ability to generate inner heat) Wim Hof
Transubstantiation
Devas and matrices
The ability for communication with devas: concepts
The ability for communication with devas: non verbal
The ability for communication with devas: energetic processes
Perception of devanic subtle-energy tuning
Perception of devanic time-shift scanning
Perception of devanic fine-tuning of physical structures
Perception of devanic fusion
Ability to see the subtle energy matrices
The ability to generate subtle energy matrices
The activation of subtle energy matrices (20+ X)
Insight into devanic technology. (matrices, resonating subtle energy fields….)
Paranormal abilities:
The ability for clairsentience
The ability for clairaudience
The ability for clairvoyance
The ability for clairknowing
The ability to find hidden objects
Paranormal time perception (the ability for awaking from sleep at a
. predetermined time)
The ability to do automatic drawing (Matthew Manning)
The ability to do automatic painting (Luiz Gasparetto)
The ability to do automatic speaking (Pearl Curran)
The ability to do automatic writing (Mrs. Piper)
The ability to produce automatic deep mathematic insights (Henri Poincare)
The ability to do automatic composing (Rosemary Brown)
The capacity for lucid dreaming (Frederick van Eeden)
The capacity for remote viewing (Joe McMoneagle)
The ability to “tune in” to a specific individual and view a specific remote locality
through that individual’s eyes.
Psychometry: the ability to see the history of an object, where it was , what
. happened to it. (George McMullen)
Post-cognition / retro cognition
Death warnings (Socrates)
Remote influence
To feel when somebody attention is focused on you
Higher forms of paranormal abilities:
The ability to change timelines by precognitive scanning of the future and acting
upon that
The ability to change timelines by retro-causal acting
The ability to create powerful ‘Kosmic habits’
The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident (serendipity)
The ability to see the Dharmakaya fields
The ability to predict the exact day on which something specific happens
The ability to appear to humans at a distant location in dreams
The ability to appear to humans at a distant location in a physical form
The ability to control the energy streams in the nadis
The ability to scan the live review of others (The past)
The ability to scan the live preview of others (The future)
Retro causal acting
Writing in by the author unknown languages (Gopi Krishna)
Clairaudience on mystical levels (composers)
The ability to scan ontological sublevels, Granthi, Nadis
Mental (non-sensory) Synaesthesia
Teleportation (Scole experiment)
Bi-location –mental
Bi-location –physical
(The concept of bilocation has appeared in early Greek philosophy, shamanism, paganism,
folklore, occultism, magic, the paranormal, Hinduism (as one of the siddhis). spiritualism
Theosophy, the New Age and mysticism in general, as well as Christian mysticism and
Jewish mysticism) (Wikipedia)
The ability to attract mentally a certain (social) situation
The ability to see through solid matter. (Dora van Gelder Kunz)
The ability to generate a spiritual link with another person
The ability to erase mental patterns from the subconsciousness
Ability to integrate the activation of the chakras on different ontological levels
Doppelgänger (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The ability to activate Shakti fever.
The ability to activate Shakti fever in others.
The ability to activate Siddhis in others.
The ability to create a new order of civilization, a new era of cultural
. development, a new life style, a new system of values:
. (Moses, Mahavira, Buddha, Christ, St Paul, Mohammed
The ability to influence the mind-set and behaviour patterns of other people
. by non-sensory projecting powerful suggestions in their mind.
Translogical insight in the symbolic/allegorical meaning of stories.
To perceive auditory, visually and feel the music of the spheres.
To produce the music of the spheres.
Ability to enter the dreams of others, guide them and alter their perceptions
Bi-location in time
The ability to “read” information from subtle energy balls (Robert Monroe)
The ability to generate subtle energy information balls
The ability to connect with the collective development / the subtle energy fields
in the far future, and by trans temporal resonance create a feedback loop
in time
Non-linear time experience
Highly superior autobiographical memory, hyperthymesia, near-total recall. (Jill Price)
A memory of the future
The ability for Chi manipulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F3ovb2kZ9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZM3t9JpGjw
The capacity to bring all one’s subtle energy fields on different levels in line, the
same five energy groups on the same location on all ontological levels.
Exceptional capacity for spiritual transformation:
To have direct perceptions of trans-personal realities
The ability to shifts one’s focal point of consciousness to higher ontological
levels at will
The ability to consciously participate in the kosmic evolutionary processes.
Ability to activate the kundalini in others
The ability for Self Transcendence, to exceed one’s own limitations.
The ability to gain a new state of development, a higher consciousness.
To attain spiritual enlightenment.
Mastery over one’s own instinctual drives and urges, passions and
. motivations.
The elimination of mental disturbances, sensory distraction,
. emotional agitation or fluctuation.
The transcending of Ego-consciousness.
To be engaged in revolutionary action for the ultimate good of humanity in
. utter indifference to personal, communal, racial, or parochial
. vested interest.
Exceptional mental balance
The ability to increase one’s intelligence by eliminating the monologue interior
The ability to accelerate the transformations on different developmental lines
The ability to greatly increase the neuroplasticity of the brain
The ability to perceive multi ontological spaces
Exceptional capacity for Inhibition: the ability to withstand distraction, and
. internal urges.
The ability to generate higher states of meditation
The ability to shift from self-interest to ultimate concern
The ability to be totally aware in the present moment
Samadhi’s:
The ability to be in savitarka samadhi (a state of contemplation)
The ability to be in khanika samadhi (meditative state of ± 5 minutes)
The ability to be in upacara samadhi (meditative state of ± 20 minutes)
The ability to be in appana samadhi (meditative state of ± 2 hours)
The ability to be in savikalpa samadhi (nirvana)
The ability to be in permanent savikalpa samadhi (parinirvana)
The ability to be in nirvikalpa samadhi (Temporarily non-dual state)
The ability to be in sahaja samadhi (permanent non-dual state)
The ability to be in bhava samadhi (the light body)
(Bhava Samadhi: Superconscious state attained by intense divine emotions.)
Exceptional capacity:
Exceptional capacity for computer programming, the capacity to create,
structure and organize data (Alan Turing)
Exceptional capacity to instantaneously perform extremely complex mental
. operations (John von Neumann)
Exceptional capacity for invention (Tesla, Edison)
Exceptional capacity for an integrated vision, heightened capacity to recognize
diverse relationships and integrate ideas across disciplines; reasons things
out, comprehends meanings, and make logical associations (Ervin Laszlo)
Exceptional capacity for compassion, with an unusual intensity and depth of
feeling (book: “The nature of sympathy”; Max Scheler)
Exceptional capacity for sequencing: the ability to break down complex actions . into manageable units and prioritize them in the right order.
Exceptional capacity for Inhibition: the ability to withstand distraction, and . internal urges.
Exceptional capacity for pain control (Jack Schwartz, Wim Hof)
Exceptional capacity to deal with complexity, with a rapid and thorough
comprehension of the whole ideas or concepts
Exceptional capacity for scientific innovation (Newton)
Exceptional capacity for technological innovation
Exceptional capacity for communication with a great depth and intensity of
emotional life
Exceptional capacity to guide the process of community development
Exceptional capacity for pattern recognition / perception
Exceptional capacity for problem solving by: Analytical Ability, Lateral
Thinking, Initiative, Logical Reasoning, Persistence
The ability to greatly enhance the neuroplasticity of the brain.
Ability to apport objects.
Ability to create a Tulpu, an externalized form of consciousness with the apparent
autonomy of the figure (Alexandra David-Néel, Carl Jung’s Philemon.)
Shamanistic Weather Control: Yoruba, Ted Owens (Book: The P.K. man By
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD)
Supernormal functioning among athletes, book: The Psychic Side of Sports.
Auteurs: Rhea A White, Michael Murphy
Exceptional capacity for self-reflection:
Enhanced ability to get access to subliminal data, which is normally outside
(inaccessible to) one’s awareness
The ability to remove (Jungian) complexes from the unconsciousness
Exceptional insight in psychological structures (Carl Jung, Daniel Goleman)
Enhanced psychological development:
The ability to place psychological and collective developments, level specific
Enhanced learning ability and a higher level of energy and capacity for sustained
effort
Accelerated development (Mozart, child prodigy)
The ability to interpret symbolic / allegoric images, stories….
The power of inner stability that is independent of outward circumstances
Exceptional capacity to deal with very complex knowledge:
Encyclopaedic knowledge based on a deep cognitive grasp of multiple and
diverse fields of inquiry (Plato, Aristotle, Hildegard von Bingen,
Leonardo da Vinci, Immanuel Kant, and G.W.F. Hegel)
Exceptional numerical memory: Daniel Tammet
The ability for numerical precision using complex mathematical operations
The ability for numerical precision using intuition (Intuition, a phenomenon of
the mind, describes the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or
the use of reason)
Outstanding mental ability for strategic planning
Transfer of contexts and understanding of the complexities and interrelatedness
of affairs
The ability to process complex information very quickly, and to be able to
comprehend subject matter at highly advanced levels
The capacity to find a deeply hidden meaning of life:
To understand why the physical world was created.
Insight in the fine-tuning of the conditions that allow life in the Universe
(Data collected by Hugh Ross)
The ability to conceptualise and prove the existence of non-local extra sensory
perceptions and communications and transcend the conventional paradigm
(parapsychologists)
The ability to find totally new and meaningful patterns in complex data.
The ability to find new significant correspondences
The capacity to find totally new innovative theories and solutions:
An intuitive feeling for the combinatorial superstructure of new theories.
(John von Neumann)
The capacity to access valuable information from the platonic realm
The ability to see cross connections between multiple different domains
The ability to see integral social interconnections (Noam Chomsky)
The ability to see holistic interconnections (David Bohm)
The ability to find new forms of methodology (algebra, mathematics) (David Hilbert)
The capacity to develop a totally new philosophical system (Ken Wilber)
The ability to generate original ideas and solutions, to be highly creative;
offering unusual, unique answers; originality, independent thinking
Exceptional moral capacity:
To be engaged in revolutionary action for the ultimate good of humanity in
. utter indifference to personal, communal, racial, or parochial
vested interest.
Exceptional social capacity:
Enhanced empathic ability, unusual sensitivity to the feelings and expectations
of others; sensitive
Exceptional statesmanship (Lincoln, Mandela)
High level of tolerance (The capacity for a fair, objective and permissive
attitude toward those who differ from one’s own viewpoint or background)
Exceptional creative capacity:
The ability to activate the creative process at will
A heightened capacity to enlarge one’s perspective of interest
Exceptional aesthetic capacity:
Enhanced sensitivity to beauty, aesthetic perception
Exceptional scientific capacity:
The ability to generate a total new, ontological higher mental frameworks for
comprehending the universe (Newton and Einstein).
The ability to integrate multiple perspectives, the ability to perceive essential
elements and underlying structures and patterns in relationships and ideas
Deep insight into the structure of matter and the interactions between the
fundamental constitutions of the observable universe. (Einstein)
Ability to change one’s views about the nature of time (The way in which the
sequence of events are perceived or interpreted according to ontological
reference points) (Kant, Gödel)
Trans-temporal abilities:
Ability to simultaneously to be mentally in the present, the past and the future
Ability to see one´s life-panorama, the meaning and the aim behind one’s life
Ecstatic states:
Experiencing of feeling and seeing the five supramental ecstatic energy groups
radiation (feeling subtle energy colours) (564X)
{This list contains some overlap of the same capacities, but which are differently described}.
There is an academic study into the siddhis by Dean Radin called “Supernatural”
Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Book: ‘Supernormal’ (2013)
Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities investigates the nature of psi phenomena in the context of yoga and the yogic tradition of siddhis (psychic powers). In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the siddhis are presented as neither magical or divine, but as the natural outcome of intense meditation practice. Radin points out that some can be investigated in the laboratory in controlled tests. Individual chapters focus on the evidence to date for precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance and mind-matter interactions, including experiments carried out with experienced meditators.
As with Radin’s earlier books, Supernormal includes extensive critiques of skeptical views and responses. It concludes by discussing how a greater understanding of psi phenomena achieved by means of experimental research might contribute to the development of a new idea of reality in Western thought.
In an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMYDk6fYFw0 5.28-8.28
Radin points to the fact that Siddhis aren’t uncommon, or sporadic:
“…when people say how do I get better at this, my first suggestion is meditation because that’s what it’s all about, about attention training and historically we know especially from the yoga literature that if you’re a diligent meditator, you will begin to encounter all kinds of interesting mental phenomena, the ancients would have called them siddhis, in Sanskrit meaning special power, in English we call it psychic phenomena.
… we did a survey recently…. In the survey we asked people within the United States in the general population and also a subset of scientists and engineers, how often were ever did they have certain kinds of experiences that were not described as psychic but the description would require a psychic experience.
So for example we might have one of the experiences might be that you felt that you were in communication at a distance you knew their thoughts or their feelings so we can label that telepathy but we didn’t use that word we just said did you have an experience of these type?
|So we had 25 of these different experiences that people commonly report, they have various labels which we call psychic and so we asked two questions, one was of these 25 which of these have you personally experienced? And then from that we were able to tell whether they had at least one such experience, one of the 25. So among the general population 94% of the people responded that they had at least one of the 25 different kind of experiences so this is extremely common in terms of experience. But you get when you ask questions about believe, especially believe we use the labels that are psychic labels like do you believe in telepathy you get very different answers because some people are thinking well then you know I don’t know if I know exactly what telepathy is and they give another answer. So we were specifically then asking about what have you experienced 94% of the general population so then we looked at the subset of scientists and engineers who answered this question and we expected, well most scientists and engineers are either not interested in these things or at least not taught about them or even taught about that they don’t exist, so we thought that we would get a much lower percentage. But in fact we got 93%.
93% of scientists and engineers who do that as a profession have more or less the same percentage of experiences that we would call psychic as the general population.
So is this common? Yeah it is extremely common.”
