Psychic Powers Powers pertaining to the lower intermediate human nature -- i.e, between the mental-emotional and the physical -- including powers of perception such as astral vision, the lower clairvoyance and clairaudience, the lower psychometry and seership, etc.; and lower biases or tendencies such as hypnotism, the power to produce minor occult phenomena of many kinds, and in connection with the power of automatic astral projection.

In their nature they are morally neutral, being susceptible of use or misuse just as are physical powers. If used with an evil or selfish purpose, the action is black magic; and even if used without such motive or with good intention, they may prove confusing and therefore misleading for one who ventures to use them.

The existence of such powers should be recognized and we should hope some day to be able to avail ourselves properly of them, but a prime requisite in discipleship is equal and harmonious development. We may attain psychic powers by observing the conditions under which they may safely and profitably be allowed to develop.

The presence of vanity, ambition, self-assertion, egoism, and similar qualities prove a bar, and the aspirant who is sincerely desirous of eliminating these defects will not willingly adopt a course likely to enhance them. There is no hard-and-fast division of powers into psychic, physical, mental, etc.: we may contemplate the gradual development of our mental faculties without defining a point where we have stepped out of the ordinary into the occult; and our perceptions may become refined by gradual stages without any sudden jump from one plane to another.

Theosophy enjoins students to let psychic powers alone, until they develop normally and naturally in the progress of the student along the path of wisdom and self-mastery. The craze for psychic powers and attempts in their cultivation arise almost invariably out of ignorance of the existence in ourselves of far higher and more powerful forces which can always be employed with safety, and even profit, to the individual.

These greater powers are those classed as spiritual and intellectual-aspirational -- powers which ennoble and dignify man, containing in themselves capacities for amazing effects. Their use is always safe once they are understood and studied. By their side the psychic powers, attributes, and faculties are like the puny efforts of children to copy adults.

(See also: Psychic Powers, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Psychic Powers: Psychic power generally means the assertion of the psyche’s powers in the material world without the apparent involvement of the physical body.

(See also: Psychic Powers, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

A Theosophical definition of Psychic Powers :

Psychic Powers

The lowest powers of the intermediate or soul-nature in the human being, and we are exercising and using them all the time  - yes, and we cannot even control them properly! Men's emotional thoughts are vagrant, wandering, uncertain, lacking precision, without positive direction, and feebly governed.

The average man cannot even keep his emotions and thoughts in the grip of his self-conscious will. His weakest passions lead him astray. It is this part of his nature whence flow his "psychic powers." It is man's work to transmute them and to turn them to employment which is good and useful and holy. Indeed, the average man cannot control the ordinary psycho-astral-physical powers that he commonly uses; and when, forsooth, people talk about cultivating occult powers, by which they mean merely psychic powers, it simply shows that through ignorance they know not to what they refer. Their minds are clouded as regards the actual facts.

Those who talk so glibly of cultivating occult powers are just the people who cannot be trusted as real guides, for before they themselves can crawl in these mysterious regions of life, they seem to desire to teach other people how to run and to leap. What most people really mean, apparently, when they speak of cultivating occult powers is "I want to get power over other people." Such individuals are totally unfit to wield occult powers of any kind, for the motive is in most cases purely selfish, and their minds are beclouded and darkened with ignorance.

The so-called psychic powers have the same relation to genuine spiritual powers that baby-talk has to the discourse of a wise philosopher. Before occult powers of any kind can be cultivated safely, man must learn the first lesson of the mystic knowledge, which is to control himself; and all powers that later he gains must be laid on the altar of impersonal service  - on the altar of service to mankind.

Psychic powers will come to men as a natural development of their inner faculties, as evolution performs its wonderful work in future ages. New senses, and new organs corresponding to these new senses, both interior and exterior, will come into active functioning in the distant future. But it is perilous both to sanity and to health to attempt to force the development of these prematurely, and unless the training and discipline be done under the watchful and compassionate eye of a genuine occult teacher who knows what he is about.

The world even today contains hundreds of thousands of "sensitives" who are the first feeble forerunners of what future evolution will make common in the human race; but these sensitives are usually in a very unfortunate and trying situation, for they themselves misunderstand what is in them, and they are misunderstood by their fellows. (See also Occultism)

See also: Psychic Powers , Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul

power point (Psychic vortex)

Spot or place along an Earth meridian with a capacity to amplify and transform energy, especially where two paths interconnect

(See also: Power point (Psychic vortex) , Body Mind and Soul)

Pyramid Power:

Beliefs that pyramid shapes can produce paranormal effects.

(See also: Pyramid Power, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Psychic Healing:

Forms of healing using psychic powers.

See also Laying-on-of-Hands, Psychic Surgery.

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Healer:

Someone who claims the power of healing.

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Bala:

Strength or power.

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Charm:

A spell or object possessing magic power.

(See also: Charm, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Prayer:

A sincere attempt to communicate with a spiritual being or power.

(See also: Prayer, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Siddhi - Perfection; psychic power.

(See also: Siddhi, Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)

SIDDHI: Psychic power.

(See also: SIDDHI, Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)

Faith Healing:

Healing that is associated with prayer or belief in Divine power.

(See also: Faith Healing, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Siddhis:

Name given to paranormal powers associated with the practice of Yoga.

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Spell:

Written or spoken words believed to have magical power.

(See also: Spell, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

SIDDHI: major psychic power; perfection

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Siddhi: Perfection; psychic power.

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ojas:

ojas - concentrated psychic power

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siddhi:

siddhi - a psychic (or occult) power

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Siddhi:

Siddhi: perfection; psychic power.

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