As I said in Chapter 1, we each emit a subtle etheric feeling. It has a precise identity, like a thumbprint, patterned in a complex web of energy. People perceive your consolidated power subliminally, and they respond accordingly.
The subliminal feeling you exude is the real you. Life responds precisely and exactly to the subliminal feeling you emit. That’s why sometimes your mind expects one thing, and life gives you something else.
There is a subtle metaphysical definition of feeling that is slightly different from the one you might be used to. If you tap the back of your hand with your knuckles, the impulse of that touch goes to the brain—and we call that “feeling.” However, the impulse of that tap is really a sensation, not a feeling.
When tackling a problem, the intellect might say, “I feel we should do this or that.” But the mind doesn’t mean “I feel.” What it means is “I think.” Most of what the mind says it feels is not really feeling at all—it’s opinion.
We refer to our emotions as feelings. But that’s not a precise definition either. Our emotions are, in effect, reactions, which are generated by the positive or negative responses of the ego/personality. The personality establishes rules. When life complements those rules or ideas, the personality is happy (positive emotion). When the personality is contradicted by circumstances, it’s unhappy (negative emotion). If your personality doesn’t like you getting cold and wet and you fall in the river, that generates an emotional response. Emotions are the reactions of the personality, presented on a grand stage and scripted in the theater of the mind. Free tickets at the front desk for all basket cases!
Emotions are the outcropping of opinions and preferences. If you had no opinions or preferences, life could not contradict you, and you could not experience negative emotion. Of course, the key to serenity is not necessarily in satisfying your ego’s preferences. Rather, it’s in reducing your preferences and absolutes.
Real feelings, secret feelings, originate in the etheric and develop as you control the mind. They reach through the quiet mind to the infinite knowing that resonates in the eternal coexistence of all things. There, you find the telltale imprint that each human mind leaves behind. In there is the metaphysical explanation for all human action.
The memory bank of this Greater Knowing records the history of our human emotions—individual and collective—at the deepest level of spiritual evolution. The total record of you is in there. People consider such intimate knowledge about others to be forbidden information. They find it scary, due to its seemingly magical and extrasensory nature. In fact, it’s a natural part of our greater memory—our divine memory—to which you are connected via the God-force.
You cannot be denied access to anything you wish to know, about anyone you care to observe. Providing, of course, that the information is contained in that greater memory, you can retrieve it. So, you can’t discover a scientific formula that has never been invented, but you can see how people feel, at any one precise moment, even if they’re at a distance. The process may seem occult and extrasensory, but, in fact, it’s an inner-sensory perception. It’s available to all, and comes from metaphysical sophistication, consolidation, quietude, and control.
The global memory, to which we all belong, resonates its own precise collective feeling, so we evolve inside a group feeling. Everything exudes the God-force, even inanimate objects. In addition, everything that comes into contact with human beings is imbued with the subtle imprint that our thoughts, emotions, and etheric mark upon the object.
Nothing much is lost, but sometimes it changes. If you play a CD, the music given off imprints on the walls of the room. Each sound wave is layered one upon the other. Eventually, we might be able to scrape off the sounds and replay conversations from hundreds of years ago. The mental/emotional imprint a human being makes in the greater memory of humanity is thousands of times easier to access than a sound wave on a wall. You can access anyone’s imprint and know the most intimate details about him or her. By looking inside the infinite mind, you will know. But most can’t see it—because they don’t know the imprint is there, and because they’re too obsessed with self, too cluttered.
Imagine a human with a 90-piece brass band playing on her head. The “Oompah, Oompah” is so loud that she can’t concentrate on anything else; she’s living in the center of a mental tornado. Her ego is strong, her personality dominant—all subtle feelings are swamped. The personality prefers to hear, see, and feel things that please it, or endorse it. The mind focuses on what is congruent with its desires, and eliminates everything else. Perception is thus narrowed by selection.
If you want to access the mysterious global memory and expand your silent power, here’s what you need to do:
First, close down the chatter of the mind—with meditation, discipline, and mental control. Fasting is good; the mind goes quiet when you don’t eat. You might also try a “talking fast” for 24 hours, during which you don’t allow yourself to talk. Silence; time on your own; physical exercise; and a light, low-protein, low-volume diet all help in the general raising of your energy. Discipline gives you confidence, serenity, and power.
Next, start to exercise your perception by commanding your mind to notice everything, even the most inconsequential of details. It’s part of the discipline of going from asleep to awake. Train your mind to reclaim the subtlety of perception that, over the years, you’ve programmed it to disregard. Our ancient, atavistic abilities were lost when life became too cozy and the intellect so dominant. Stake your claim to the subtle power.
Try this: Go to a shopping mall, find a bench, and sit. Make a mental note of every minute detail of your surroundings. By telling the mind that you want to notice and remember things, you force it to concentrate on life outside, rather than on itself. The “sixth sense” of inner knowing comes, initially, from a heightened sensitivity and sense of awareness of the usual five senses.
Watch everything at the mall. So if I were to ask you an hour later, “What color is the trash bin outside the ice-cream parlor?” you’d know—and you’d remember if it was full or empty. And you’d say to me, “Stu, I also remember the little tag on the bin that says, ‘Acme Trash Bins of Minnesota,’ and there was a Snickers wrapper stuck on the north side of the bin, held by pink gum three inches from the top—next to the scratch marks that say, ‘Work sucks.’”
“Good,” I’d say, “and how many light fittings are there in that part of the mall?” And you’d respond, “17,” because you’d counted them—and then you’d remember that 3 bulbs were blown out.
Now, turn your attention to the passersby. Watch them carefully. Don’t judge them, just observe. Before we get into how the people feel from an emotional, metaphysical stance, let’s really notice how they look, and what that means.
How people look is often the same as how they feel. Over the years, your face changes to reflect your predominant emotions. So, scared people have scared eyes. Meanness shows up as an unusually thin upper lip and narrow eyes. Arrogance is in the upward tilt of the chin, and between the underside of the nose and the upper lip.
Anger is at the top of the nose. See if the bridge of the nose is pulled up—notice if the gap between the eyebrows is furrowed. Look, also, for restriction and pain in the lines around the side of the eyes. You’ll also see anger in the shoulders. Angry people are curved around themselves as they try to protect their angry hearts—partly because they know subliminally that their negative emotions are likely to stop their hearts real soon, and partly to protect themselves from the pain they experience there.
Overt sexuality leans back in the upper body because the hips are tilted back. It can thus offer or show the pelvic area by thrusting it ever-so-slightly forward. When sexual look-at-me types walk, they must rotate over the top of each hip bone—first left, then right—to compensate for the forward-thrusting pelvis. The motion is ducklike and comical to watch. I know they mean no harm by it all, and watching the pelvic waddle of sexual seekers offers endless fun and entertainment—a real pantomime.
The other thing that will amuse you is the fact that humans don’t think anyone is watching or noticing—obsessed as they are with themselves—and are therefore unaware. They don’t imagine that you can see right through them. In the whirl of mental activity, the personality is blinded and imagines that nobody else can see either; it feels safe.
People make all sorts of tiny, surreptitious movements—movements that they are either unaware of, or that they believe are private to them. Their subconscious urges and needs, and the mental activity such urges create, show up in the muscles as minute body movements. It gives people away.
Your walk, your posture, and the expression and shape of your face provide an external blueprint of your inner self. People who are weak and insecure have a defensive upper-body posture, their eyes shift left and right, up and down, more rapidly and more often than a solid person. If you meet any true sages in the mall, you’ll notice that their eyes move slowly, casting back and forth, or they will look straight ahead. Information situated to their immediate left and right will be picked up via their peripheral vision, which will have become powerful over the years.
To develop perception, you only have to ask yourself for information that you don’t normally seek—visual and auditory information, and, of course, we can learn a lot by how people smell. We don’t usually think of smelling others unless a person has terrible BO. But as you exercise that sense, you become more and more sensitive to odor, and you’ll notice that each person’s is quite distinct. It tells you things.
As you heighten your perception by watching, you learn very quickly—and now you’re ready to heighten your subtle feelings.
Come, let’s look at the extrasensory part of your silent power that dwells inside your nature-self.