POWER EXPERIENCE

POWER EXPERIENCE

I believe that no one achieves his or her maximum psi potential without power experience.

We live in a cocoon of expected, familiar scenes and events. Power experience is a challenge to reality as we know it. It may arrive in many ways.

Most power experience is frightening and unpleasant when it is actually occurring. It is only afterward that we understand and appreciate the gift.

One achieves insight and power (the ability to perceive and do things that are impossible in ordinary reality) when something rips a hole in the cocoon. It might be anything, from a near death experience, being abducted by aliens or an unanticipated encounter with spirits. Whatever tears a hole in the cocoon liberates you from the tyranny of the known, and thereby gives you power.

One of my favorite images is an old Far Side cartoon. It’s morning at the bear household. Mrs. Bear is on the porch looking angry. Mr. Bear is standing on the walk with a hangdog expression. There is a tag in his ear. A number has been shaved into his fur and a hypodermic is stuck in his posterior.

Mrs. Bear says: “This better be good.”

Power experience is uncomfortable, it is impossible to explain to other people, and it changes your life. I have had people ask me how to undo their power experience so they can go back to living the life they led before. Alas, I don’t know how, and I don’t think it should be undone. We are here to transcend our limitations, are we not? If fate gives us the opportunity, I think we should use it.

When people consult me about such matters I teach them integration strategies and other means of coping with the avalanche of strange experience that has been dumped on them.

One of the traits power experience confers is the ability to perceive and think beyond the individual and personal. The person has had a glimpse of parts of the universe that those confined in ordinary reality never see. And nothing is the same, ever again.