In this Space Age, the deeper powers of the mind, which have remained virtually dormant in earlier eras, are now coming alive more generally in mankind. The scientific world describes these deeper powers of the mind as telepathy, clairvoyance, general extrasensory perception, precognitio and psychokinesis. Let us consider these special powers of the not only from a scientific standpoint, but also for prosperity’s sake.
Telepathy Is an Ancient Art
Telepathy is awareness of the mental activities of other persons, without that awareness being transmitted by sight, hearing, touch or any of the other known senses. In other words, when the mind communicates with other minds, without requiring the use of the physical senses or mechanical devices, such transfer of thought between minds is described as mental telepathy.
There should be nothing spectacular about telepathy. It was practiced by the native Hawaiians for centuries before the white man appeared on the scene to “civilize” the natives there. In Tahiti there has been widespread use of telepathy for some years. In Africa, news of political decisions has been known to be received telepathically hours and sometimes days before it was officially announced. The holy men and masters of the Far East also practiced telepathy as a common mental exercise for centuries. In modern times, Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University has done much to make telepathy scientifically plausible.
With additional attention to the subject and practice thereof, you can develop more than haphazard telepathic abilities.
Telepathy can help you to experience prosperous, successful living much faster, if you rightly develop it. However, this special power is only a phase of your prosperity powers. Don’t become so fascinated with telepathy that you “go off the deep end,” by concentrating on it to the exclusion of your other prosperity powers.
How to Develop Telepathy
Perhaps one reason the general public has not taken these special powers too seriously in the past is that they have observed what I have often observed: People who had telepathy or clairvoyant abilities often seem unbalanced and impractical. But your special powers of the mind can and should be developed for quite the opposite reason: top make your life more balanced, prosperous and successful. You can benefit by using your special powers if you follow closely the suggestions contained in this chapter. For this purpose affirm: Divine Telepathy is now revealing t me all truth about my special powers of prosperity.
When you wish to make contact with others for your mutual good and perhaps direct outer contact is not convenient, you can reach them telepathically by affirming: Divine Telepathy is now revealing to you, to me, to us, all truth about this situation.
Recently I wished to make contact with a childhood friend whom I had not heard from for several years. I heard that she had married and had made a number of changes since our last meeting, and I had no idea where she was. Perhaps with some time and effort I could have traced her, but my need was not that great. Nevertheless, I did wish to hear from her again. Several times when the thoughts of her came into my thinking, I mused: Divine Telepathy will have to make this contact for me, since I do not know where she is. About ten days later, I was startled to find a letter in the mail from her, answering all the questions about herself that were in my mind, and also giving me her new address.
Often in the midst of a busy day, needs arise that you do not have time to immediately handle. If you think of others involved and bless them with the thought that Divine Telepathy is revealing to them whatever they need to know, then they will begin to telepathically receive your thoughts and respond with appropriate actions.
Telepathy Is a Harmonizing Power
Development of your telepathic power keeps down needless conversations, telephone calls, letters, or fatiguing activity that can be so time consuming. Development of your telepathic ability helps you to maintain poise, and to accomplish essential tasks more easily.
A businesswoman had a deadline to meet in completion of a piece of work. The evening before the work was due, she found herself in dire need of some technical help in the matter. The name of a friend who could give that help kept popping into her mind; however, she did not know where to locate that person during the evening, and her residence telephone did not answer. This businesswoman hesitated to trace the friend since she felt it might seem an imposition to ask the friend to spend extra time working so late in the day. Finally; the businesswoman dismissed the idea of trying to reach her friend, casually thinking, “If she is supposed to help me, Divine Telepathy will reveal it to her. Otherwise, I give thanks for the divine solution to this situation now.”
Within fifteen minutes the telephone rang, and her friend said to her, “I am having dinner in a downtown restaurant. I have a feeling you need my help tonight. If so, I am available, and will be happy to work with you.” In half an hour they were busily working together to complete the project.
A minister was in great need, and he wished to talk with a trusted friend who had moved to a distant state. The minister kept thinking, “If only I could talk with my friend about this situation, I’d feel so much better. He could help me to get my perspective about this”.
Early the next morning, his faraway friend awakened with his minister friend on his mind. After a while he thought, “I’d like to have a chat with him,” and so he telephoned his friend, who explained to him, “This is uncanny. I must make a decision today, and I kept thinking that a talk with you would help me to resolve everything. I hesitated to call or write because I’ve called on you so often in the past.” They then discussed the problem, and arrived at a happy solution.
Everyone Has Telepathic Powers
We all have telepathic abilities. It is a matter of realizing this fact, and then developing our abilities along constructive lines. Of course, as with any power, you must never use your telepathic abilities to coerce or induce others into your way of thought and action. To do so is destructive, and will bring destructive experiences to you.
I recently learned of a person who had become so fascinated with these deeper powers of the mind that he made concentrated efforts to develop them. He then began using them selfishly, to compel other people to do that which pleased him. In several instances, he caused others to become emotionally upset and mentally disturbed before he was exposed.
When you use your mental powers selfishly and destructively, they will diminish. Not only will you lose them, but you will also personally get a negative reaction from trying to abuse or misuse them on others. In this man’s case, his own personal affairs became quite confused, and his health was affected. By affirming that Divine Telepathy is revealing what is needed for the highest good of all concerned, mental destructiveness is avoided.
Along with affirmation, a practical way to develop your telepathic abilities is by thinking of any situation, person, or condition that you have some question about. Then write down that person’s name, along with your question concerning him. Thereafter, sit quietly every day for a while and look at the person’s name, think about him, asking your question mentally; get still and listen for ideas to come into your mind, which will reveal the answer. If the answer does not come just then, it may flash into your thinking at an idle moment later. If not, keep up the practice every day, and you will be telepathically shown what you need to know. It simply takes practice, and it is a much simpler, less strenuous, and faster method for gaining true information than that obtained through ordinary channels. You can discover a person’s real attitudes and motives through this method, when they may have previously hidden them from you.
Your Second Special Power
Clairvoyance is your second special power for prosperity. It literally means “clear-seeing,” and it is an awareness of external facts or events without having such knowledge transmitted to you by the five senses. It can include awareness of past, present, or future events. However, scientists have described one phase of clairvoyance as “precognition,” or foreknowledge of future events.
Members of the clergy in all ages have been trained to develop their clairvoyant abilities. People in ancient civilizations in China, Egypt, Mexico, even the early American Indians, sought to develop their awareness of events which were happening at a distance.
The key to the development of clairvoyance is in knowing that you want to heighten your awareness of external facts and events only through the help of your divine nature. You do not want to become sensitive to the human mental strata of thought, in which float negative ideas about war, crime, disease, and other destructive beliefs.
I once knew a woman who developed her clairvoyant abilities along such negative lines. Tuning in on such negative ideas and conditions was destructive and unbalancing to her. Finally, her husband left her, her children were taken from her, her health failed, and her emotions were utterly shattered.
You want to develop your clairvoyant awareness for good only. By affirming the development of your divinely clairvoyant powers, you will grow spiritually, and be led to contribute to the well-being of others.
A number of reports have recently described clairvoyant people who became aware of negative events. No wonder the general public has shunned the idea of clairvoyance, because they do not care to become involved in the world’s troubles, having enough of their own!
Becoming clairvoyantly aware of negative events only clutters the mind and prevents your being mentally receptive to the positive, progressive, and prosperous things of life. Furthermore, it is not necessary to “pick up” negative thought currents. If you become clairvoyantly aware of their possibility, you can use your “no” power of the mind to dissolve them, rather than accept them as inevitable.
Let Clairvoyance Guide You
If you are seeking guidance about some business problem and wish to attain an awareness of external facts or events concerning it, do so in this way: Become still and meditate in a listening state of mind. Then let this thought go slowly through your mind: Divine clairvoyance is now revealing to me all truth about this situation, condition, or event, both past and present.
If there are certain facts or events you should know about, in your meditation declare: Divine clairvoyance is now revealing to me all truth about these specific facts or events. Then go over the specific items gently, as best you now understand them. As your mind absorbs the thought of the item, and also absorbs the idea that divine clairvoyance is revealing further truth about it, suddenly the illumining truth will begin to come. Outer events will probably happen to substantiate your mental impressions about it.
A medical technician realized that she could develop her clairvoyant abilities, and she had been declaring that divine clairvoyance was revealing to her all that she needed to know. She was planning a trip, and considering new clothes for it. One night in meditation, as she was thinking of a lovely linen dress she would like for the trip, she affirmed: “Divine clairvoyance knows where such a dress is and is leading me to it, if it is for my highest good to have it.”
The next day a friend telephoned from a downtown department store and said, “There is a lovely linen dress here on the rack. When I saw it, I thought of you.” Two hours later the technician finished her work and stopped by that store. Upon arrival, she learned that someone had already purchased the dress. She realized that she had clairvoyantly seen the dress, so she was not disturbed. She nonchalantly said, “If that dress is rightly mine, I will still have it. If not, the equivalent will appear.”
The next day her store clerk friend telephoned to say, “The customer has returned that linen dress. It is here on the rack, and I will put it up for you if you wish to come and see it.” She later happily purchased the dress, which proved to be identical to the one which had come to her in meditation previously.
As you develop these deeper powers of your mind, which are your obedient servants and love to work for you, you will find that you do not have to work so hard in the physical world to accomplish right results. The truth of this was revealed to me recently when I had an early morning long-distance call telling me that plans had been changed for that day. It would be necessary for me to make a trip of several hundred miles, which I had not planned to make. My first reaction was that I did not wish to make the trip, that it was not convenient in my schedule for that day, and that I did not desire to drive alone. Then I remembered to meditate and to affirm: Divine clairvoyance is now revealing the truth about this experience. A peaceful, harmonious feeling then came to me concerning this unexpected change in plans.
Later that morning, a friend came into my study and said, “I am here to take that trip with you.” Surprised, I asked, “How did you know that I might take a trip today? I only learned about it a few minutes ago.” This friend replied that, in her early morning meditation, the thought kept coming to her that she would take a trip that day. Knowing the power of ideas, she had made plans accordingly. When she later spoke to my secretary, she heard about my unexpected trip. Not only did she accompany me, but she drove her car, which made the experience an enjoyable one.
Clairvoyance Provides a Solution
A businessman had been involved in a dispute with two other businessmen. He had tried everything he knew to settle the dispute, but to no avail. One night, while talking with a friend by telephone about the confused situation, he stated that he had done all that he could do, and was going to release the situation to work out as it wished. As he ended the conversation, the face of one of the men involved in the dispute flashed into his mind. The thought came to him that this man would visit him in a day or so to resolve the dispute. He did not tell anyone about this flash of clairvoyance, but he affirmed: Divine clairvoyance is revealing itself to all concerned and producing the perfect, harmonious solution.
Two days later in the late afternoon, as he was finishing a business conference, he walked into his outer office to find that man waiting to see him! The man greeted him cordially, and said, “I got the Feeling that if we could just get together and talk, we could resolve our differences.” And they did, then and there. A friend of mine has often spoken of his son-in-law’s clairvoyant abilities. This son-in-law always knows if anything seems wrong at home. He often stops everything in the midst of his business day and telephones his wife. At other times, he has remarked to his secretary, “Do not disturb me because my wife is going to telephone me about something important.” Always it has proved true.
Clairvoyance the Past
As previously stated, clairvoyance reveals not only awareness of present events which are happening at a distance, but it can also reveal past events, if they are of importance to the present. I know of two people, a man and a woman, who have clairvoyant power to “see” into the past. In each instance, they assure people who go to them for help that they are never shown anything about a person’s past unless it can aid that person to be free from the past. The man has often described in detail a person’s past actions which are linked to some present problem.
You can develop this phase of clairvoyance for your own good if you will declare concerning any situation which seems shrouded with mystery or uncertainty from the past: Divine clairvoyance, reveal past and present truth to me concerning this situation. You will be surprised how anything from the past which you need to know will be shown to you.
A man who had had an unhappy past began to realize that certain future events would require that he return to his hometown, which he had not visited in years. He wondered how he would be received there. He decided that clairvoyance could prepare him ahead of time for the reaction, if he would ask to be shown what it would be. He affirmed for past and present events: Divine clairvoyance, reveal past and present truth to me concerning this visit. How do people feel about my past?
He then got a feeling of peace about the situation, and dismissed the matter from his mind. A few days later he received a letter from a hometown friend whom he had not heard from in several years. The friend joyously wrote, “I recently met a relative of yours on the street. I asked about you, since I had heard nothing from you in years. He joyously told me of all your accomplishments, and of your plans to come home for a visit soon. When I heard of all that you are doing, I was so thrilled that I could not help telling all your old friends. My friend, they want you to know how happy they are for you, and they all await your visit with anticipation!”
Perhaps you have unknowingly used clairvoyance when you needed to find a misplaced article. As you would get quiet and think about the misplaced article, often the thought would flash into your mind just where it was located.
Your Third Special Power
General extrasensory perception is your third special power for prosperity and success. It is a blending of telepathy, in which you become aware of the thoughts of other people; and clairvoyance, in which you become aware of facts or events that are taking place. Most of us have experienced degrees of this special mind at times. For instance, a lecturer was planning a trip to a distant state where a friend had invited him to speak publicly. The date was set and tentative plans were made. A few weeks prior to his departure, the lecturer began to feel uncomfortable about this trip, and wondered if it was wise for him to make it. In meditation he affirmed: Divine perception, reveal to me the truth about this trip. Should I take this trip or not?
As he continued to meditate about the situation, he got the impression that great hostility was coming to him from that area. He sensed that someone in the town where he was scheduled to lecture had personal antagonism toward him, and resented his coming. It all seemed preposterous, but he finally wrote his friend about his unusual impressions. Quite naturally, his friend quickly replied that he must be mistaken, that no hostility existed, and that everyone there was happily expecting the proposed lecture. However, the lecturer remained adamant, and he canceled the trip. While it caused some conflict between him and his friend for a while, the lecturer was relieved.
Every time he thought of the situation thereafter, the lecturer would affirm: Divine perception, reveal to all concerned the truth about this situation. Let it be known if there is any hostility. About six months later he received a letter postmarked in the town where he had planned to lecture. It was an anonymous note, in unfamiliar handwriting, stating certain hostile things about his friend in that town. He mailed the unsigned note to his friend, who recognized the handwriting as that of a friend. The author of the note apparently was jealous of the close friendship between these two men. It was later learned that, shortly after mailing the hostile note, the third party moved away. The lecturer gave his lecture as originally planned.
How to Develop Extrasensory Perception
Most of us have experienced degrees of extrasensory perception (ESP) at times. Have you not sensed that something wonderful was going to happen, and perhaps you were even aware of what it would be? Have you not at other times had a foreboding that something unpleasant was near, which caused you to become restless or unsure?
When you begin to sense that some good is on the way, you have the power and authority to help it to manifest in a perfect way by thinking: I bless you with the perfect result, through the help of divine perception. On the other hand, when you feel that something negative is about to happen, always take time to sit down and quietly dissolve that feeling by declaring: Be thou dissolved, with the help of divine perception. Continue thinking of it as being dissolved, until you feel the burden or unrest subside.
You may not know what it is that you are dissolving, but if it gives you an uneasy, restless, negative feeling, you can be assured that it is not an experience for your highest good. You have the power to mentally dissolve it, for it is in the mental realm that all troubles are first formed. Use of this special power can keep many unhappy experiences from ever occurring, if you dare to take the time to say “no” to them and neutralize them. A businessman was on a vacation trip. One morning, as he and his wife arose early to drive some 500 miles that day, he had an uneasy, apprehensive feeling. Not realizing that this was his extra-sensory perception trying to warn him not to proceed on his journey just then, he drove on anyway. A few miles down the road there was an accident in which he, his wife, and one other person were severely injured. This businessman later confided to me that, if he had understood the meaning of his uneasy feelings, he could have avoided the accident.
Your Fourth Special Power
Precognition is another of your special powers for success. While clairvoyance is an awareness of past or present events that happen at a distance, precognition is a phase of clairvoyance which brings knowledge of future events without the use of any physical agent for such knowledge. Sometimes through dreams, inspirational flashes, or in meditation periods, you are shown the action of future events.
I know a child who has often foreseen the events of his life for the coming week. In one instance, this child came to see me and asked, “How is it that I know everything that is going to happen for the coming week?” I suggested that he write down everything he foresaw, and then come back a week later and discuss it. When he returned with his notes, it was clear that nothing big had happened. He had known how much money his parents would give him. He had been aware of some events that would happen at school, and the outcome of some sports events at school. He aware of how many ice cream cones he would buy at the drug store that week! One night he had not bothered to study for a test because he said that he already knew that he would make 94 on it, which he did.
On his second visit he stated that he could not always see a week ahead, though often he knew what the next day would bring. I suggested that he not discuss his clairvoyant power of precognition with anyone, but that he affirm often: Divine precognition is making easy and successful my way. I know all that I need to know to know it, for my highest good. I assured him there was nothing different or wrong with him, and that his ability to foresee events in his life was a very special power that everyone has, but that few people have developed.
He was overjoyed when he realized that, if he became aware of some future event that seemed negative, he could mentally dissolve it by saying “no” to it. On several occasions, he did mentally reverse what might have been an unhappy experience by thinking, “NO, I will not accept this as coming forth. I accept only that which is for my highest good.” He would then think of the results which he truly desired.
A housewife I know says that she has to be careful not to win every canasta game when playing with friends. Because of her ability to foresee results, she has often known what cards were being held, and what the ultimate results would be!
Quietly Develop This Power
When you receive impressions or flashes concerning future events and results, instead of running to others and discussing what you have foreseen, it is best to quietly ask for guidance about it. A housewife became aware that her neighbor’s husband would pass on within a few months. After praying for guidance as to whether she should tell her neighbor, she felt led to do so, thinking it might explain his recently changed behavior; the neighbor was grateful for her warning, since she also had felt that her husband’s life was about over, and that he perhaps knew it too. She was then able to make his last months on earth much happier, and the shock of his passing did not overwhelm her.
Awareness of future events often comes in dreams. Instead of becoming too involved in dream analysis, however, you can get the true meaning of your dreams by asking: Divine Intelligence, what is the truth about this dream? What does it mean? It has been written of Charles Fillmore, a real estate man who became the co-founder of Unity:
Like Joseph and Daniel, Charles Fillmore felt that God came to him in dreams and visions of the night, and revealed to him much of the truth about which he wrote and spoke. He was always looking forward. He foresaw radio, and talked about it in sermons and articles. He foresaw that the atom would be split and become a source of power.
Your Fifth Special Power
Your fifth special power for prosperity is psychokinesis, which is direct influence exerted upon a physical object by a person who does not use any intermediate physical energy or instrument. For scientific purposes, this power has been used to mentally influence the fall of dice.
You can think of physical objects and influence them for good. From a prosperity standpoint, you can mentally affect your purse, bank account, investments, clothes, automobiles, the buildings and area in which you work and live. In fact, you are constantly molding your outer world thought-by-thought.
Your Thoughts Affect Inanimate Objects
“Inanimate” objects have the power to respond to your good thoughts, especially your rich thoughts about them, for they are filled with divine intelligence and seem to “know” what you are thinking about them. When an object near you “acts up,” give it the benefit of your blessing with good thoughts, rather than criticizing it. I know of a new electric typewriter that never worked properly because the employer who purchased it had not truly wanted his employee to have that typewriter; he always found fault with it, after resisting its original purchase.
Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results. One housewife has often stated how much more her money seems to buy at the grocery store if she “dresses up” before going shopping. It is as though the substance and intelligence contained in the groceries on the shelves gratefully reach out to her and multiply for her, because of her rich thoughts and rich appearance.
Still another housewife reports how she has used psychokinesis to directly influence and attract physical objects to her. For many years, she and her husband struggled to get the grocery bills paid. They had a large family clan who regularly visited them, which caused their pantry to be “cleaned out” often. This couple loved their kinfolk, but they could hardly afford them!
One day this housewife decided that, through her special power of psychokinesis, there must be some way that she could attract groceries to meet her increasing needs. She began to think of how, through this special mind power, she could influence and attract good food to her kitchen.
She quietly thought of groceries of all kinds, and of where they came from. She thought of seafood passing from the fisherman to market and then to her. She thought of the cattle in the fields, passing through the rancher’s hands, and eventually to her. Vegetables, canned goods, frozen items, bakery products, and other foods were visualized by her, as she gave thanks for the countless people along the way who prepared such foods for her use. She imaged all types of food coming into her kitchen in abundance, with no thought of financial burden or restricted supply.
When relatives came to visit her after that, they brought with them gifts of wonderful food: fresh seafood from the coast; bread butter, milk, and other dairy products; special delicacies from the bakery, and so on. Never again did she have to worry about the grocery bill, or where the next supply of groceries would come from It is as though the various food items know how she loves and appreciates them, and they tend to rush to her in abundance, in the highest and best form.
Everything Reflects Your Attitude
When you speak negatively of your financial affairs, you are misusing your special power of psychokinesis. You mentally and verbally influence everything in your world. A businessman recently spoke of appreciating a magnolia tree which he had purchased for his flower garden. He was told by friends that the magnolia would not bloom for about seven years. Since he wanted to see the lovely magnolia blooms and to enjoy their fragrance, he constantly visualized the beauty of his tree, blessing it with much love and appreciation. After only four years, his magnolia tree burst into full bloom!
Never speak disparagingly of an object. Never speak of an item of clothing or furniture as “this old thing,” unless you wish it to and fade from your world quickly. Remember that everything around you reflects your attitude toward it, and it reacts accordingly.
I recall once visiting a lady of lofty, beautiful thoughts. She constantly entertained a high vision of good, and her surroundings were always aglow with beauty and elegance. About a year later I returned to those same surroundings, but she was no longer there. I found the same furniture, drapes, and other features were still in place, but they seemed to have lost their glowing beauty. Some of the furnishings looked rather sad and shabby. Soon I realized that they could not have become threadbare in one short year. That elegant lady’s beautiful, appreciative thoughts had literally sustained the furnishings in a state of loveliness.
A good prayer to use when you are trying to radiate an atmosphere of beauty is: I am one with Almighty Good. My environment is glowing with radiant beauty, radiant richness, and radiant good.
Psychokinesis Works Everywhere
You have often felt the power of psychokinesis at work in various environments into which you have entered. They either radiated harmony or unpleasantness to you. Those people most active in an environment directly influence the physical objects therein with their thoughts and words of harmony or discord, and you can feel and see the result.
Charles Fillmore has described how you may rightly use the power of psychokinesis for good:
Blessing the substance increases its flow. If your money supply is low or your purse empty, take it in your hands and bless it. See it filled with the living substance ready to become manifest. As you prepare meals, bless the food with the thought of spiritual substance.
When you dress, bless your garments and realize that you are being constantly clothed with God’s substance. The more conscious you become of the presence of the living substance, the more it will manifest itself for you, and the richer will be the common good of all.
Believe in Your Special Powers
Do you hesitate to believe that you have these special powers for prosperity? This is the most enlightened age the world has ever known. It has been stated that more progress has been made on this planet in the past one hundred years than in the past ten thousand years! This is the age when the truth about God, man, and the universe is being explored and revealed as never before.
Never doubt the power of your deeper, special powers for prosperity, new growth, and rich achievement. Dare to think about them, believe in them, and let them begin to unfold their secrets to you. As the need arises, divine intelligence will begin expressing these powers through you with wonder-working power. As they come forth, you will recognize your special inner powers, and you can learn to accentuate their expression by using specific statements given in this chapter.
As you dare to begin developing these powers, you will find them to be your special equipment for living victoriously in this Space Age.