Mystic Powers

Mental Telepathy

and Mind-Reading

IN a recent movie, What Women Want, a misogynistic ad executive played by Mel Gibson is struck by lightning. After the accident, he gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking. He uses his mind-reading powers to great advantage and wins the love of his life.

Men have long used magic and alchemy to attain mystic powers. Certain occult yoga practices of meditation are said to endow their adepts with the power to levitate, with invisibility, and even with the power to read minds.

What if I could read your mind or you could read mine? If you could communicate with the greatest minds in history through mental telepathy would you do it? Of course, mental telepathy doesn’t exist, does it? But what if it did?

Would you take the opportunity to connect with the wisdom of great souls? Today we have YouTube. You can watch masters give violin lessons or explain quantum physics. But how to connect with the minds of the great thinkers? What technology is needed to read the minds of the great sages of history?

Strangely, the technology exists. It’s called reading.

Author Stephen King avers that “All the arts depend upon telepathy to some degree, but I believe that writing offers the purest distillation. ” King claims that books are uniquely portable magic, since they allow you to converse with Dickens, with Shakespeare or Homer. Through the power of mental telepathy found in reading we can traverse the centuries and read the minds of ancient seers. If even ordinary books offer you an escape hatch into another reality--a hatch that you can open standing in line at the bank or waiting for your clothes to dry at the laundromat--what about transcendental literature?

Many argue that there’s no need for books. We can discover the truth on our own. In fact many books have been written supporting this point. Can you really achieve the highest realization of the spirit without referring to the ideas given by others who have gone before you on the path?

It may be possible to enter another world through meditation or with the help of psychedelic drugs; but it’s hard to meditate in this noisy violent world and drugs are expensive, illegal and deadly. But why not look to the pages of transcendental literature? Why not enter another world through the use of literate mental telepathy using only the portal of a book?

Of course, reading is often criticized. Reading is an intensely private, personal, and selfish affair. It is perhaps the most selfish activity there is, next to writing. This is why both reading and writing are discouraged as subversive activities in many authoritarian states. Women in Saudia Arabia, for example, have just been granted the privilege to drive cars.

 One wonders when Saudi women will achieve the right to read and express their opinions through writing. But perhaps driving is more utilitarian than reading, and so it is being allowed, where reading and writing is dangerous and must be prohibited.

Writing is dangerous because it is the most powerful form of mental telepathy. Thoughts are dangerous. In Orwellian societies, ideas are surpressed wherever they appear by the Thought Police. The first job of the thought police in Ray Bradbury’s distopian Fahrenheit 451 is to burn books. Books communicate powerful ideas and allow us to reflect on them. Thoughts and ideas are not only dangerous, but liberating, since they transport us to other worlds beyond this one.

The sages of the Bhagavat reveal these higher worlds to us; worlds beyond exploitation--even beyond liberation. They propose that God is By Himself and For Himself; Absolute Divinity exists only for his Own Pleasure; you can participate in that divine ecstasy if you join the dance. The dance of dedication is the highest realization available to sincere souls who cultivate pure Krishna-bhakti. The nine kinds of surrender are fully delineated. Can you discover all this for yourself without a book to guide you?

It may be possible to put aside the cares and worries that hypnotize us and contemplate the inner self. It may be possible to have some vision of divinity without taking help from another more highly realized soul.

But if the sages of the Bhagavat took the energy to write their thoughts, why not take the time to read them? If I can find no living saint to help me on the path, why not use the method of mental telepathy to connect with the great saints who lived before me? With the use of literate mental telepathy, simply by reading the Bhagavat you can be transported into the very world Vyāsa saw and knew. Why not take advantage of your hard-earned right to read and dive deep into the mental telepathy of the Bhagavat?