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I had 3 different people reach out to me to discuss cultivating emergent human capacities in the span of a few days.
I figured this would be a good opportunity to share some thoughts on my experience with these. Below you’ll find a general framework that reflects what I’ve found most supportive.
Emergent capacities, special abilities, siddhis…all these refer to extra-ordinary capacities relative to the predominant human experience.
Examples include things like nonlocal intuition, psychic abilities, self-healing, clairvoyance, telepathy, the ability to perceive energy and information from objects around you…and many more.
I believe that these capacities are innate to all humans. We’ve just forgotten how to access them which is reinforced by the fact that most of us don’t live in cultures that widely accept or support their cultivation.
Creating Conditions For New Potentials To Emerge
Some people seem to be born and maintain these abilities in their formative years. Because they have a direct experience that hasn’t been conditioned out of them, they have less difficulty embracing them.
For everyone else, emergent capacities coming online and the capacity to cultivate them seems to correlate with the right conditions.
Creating conducive conditions all starts with awareness.
I define awareness as the ability to see absolute reality clearly. Absolute reality refers to the most fundamental nature of things that underlies material reality.
In this image, the big expanding circle represents absolute reality. Although it’s depicted as a circle, absolute reality is unlimited and constantly expanding.
The small circle represents your conscious awareness. You can think of this as the ability to see the true nature of things which informs your understanding.
In this example, you can see how your awareness is much smaller than total reality. This translates as what you perceive is really only a sliver of the true nature of things. Even though it’s only a sliver of truth, you mistake it for the true nature of things because that’s all you can see.
A great example of this is the earth being flat vs. round. The earth has always been round, but for a period of time, due to our awareness, many humans thought it was flat.
As awareness expands, we increase our capacity to see a greater depth of absolute reality.
We see things like:
Why we behave and react to life the way we do
Inner material in our subconscious that have been covertly influencing us
A deep understanding of why things happen in our life
The interconnectedness of everything
A deeper understanding of why reality behaves the way it does
A deeper understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of.
During this process, you realize that most of the ideas you’ve been told about the way the world works are a reflection of the predominant experience vs. a reflection of absolute reality.
Because the experience of and capacity to understand reality is based on awareness, you recognize that most of the concepts about how reality works are a derivative of a limited perspective.
With this understanding, you recognize that awareness is the most fundamental input to experience. The more we aware of absolute reality, the more we can align to it.
When you come to this understanding, what you find interesting changes.
When you see you’ve been operating on a very small little corner of the chess board, becoming a better mover of chess pieces in that little area is not as interesting as expanding the board and seeing what else is in the game room.
This redirects your energy to working on awareness.
Moving Beyond Legacy Constructs
At some point in this process you realize that many of the things you thought were true are actually just conditioned concepts derived from the predominant experience.
Relative to what is possible for a human life, you can see how these concepts are quite limiting.
Moreover, as you reflect on your past, you likely see how your reality tended to conform to the concepts you held in mind.
Whether this is merely due to the degree that our beliefs direct our actions, or whether it’s more a fundamental property of the information in your consciousness creating the reality you experience is up for debate.
This realization is a huge and often mind-blowing milestone in the consciousness journey.