In Your Faith, What Powers Can Humans Develop?

[CharmingOwl]

In Lavenderism, there is an abundance of supernatural talents and abilities that a person can develop both in practical practice and in the mythology. People selling their souls, being born from half gods, or even working on third eye and clairvoyance are some. Others like chakra alignment, becoming an Operating Thetan or the state of Clear are more vague ways to become supernatural or take control of your life. For us, when someone doesn't have supernatural powers it is like what are they doing wrong? Even talking to ancestors or spirits in dreams is something we do that pushes perceptions of reality. Others will do astral projections or other things like that. Some frequencies or subliminals are used for desired effects as well which can be perceived as supernatural. Some are related to specific deities like the ability to create political dissent in a large group of people or the ability to intuitively read someone and know exactly what to say to them in romance.

In your faith, what powers can humans develop? Is there ay moral or philosophical reason they should or should not? Is it considered in the realm of possibility?

 

[JustGeorge]

Living their dharma.

Sounds easy... it isn't always.

 

[The Hammer]

Lots of things I'm sure.

Nothing is ever exactly as it seems.

 

[The Hammer]

Wouldn't it be best to develop being human?

 

[CharmingOwl]

Wouldn't it be best to develop being human?

In some ways yes, but some people will want to try being supernatural first before settling in to being human. Some people will attempt to gain materialistic things before going after contentment.

 

[The Hammer]

In some ways yes, but some people will want to try being supernatural first before settling in to being human. Some people will attempt to gain materialistic things before going after contentment.

That's why there are others to guide them and help them on their way. Point to the signs so to speak. But that kind of understanding and guidance comes from walking in their shoes (ie doing those things with, or for them, or previously.).

Edited: magick still exists after all. When one knows where and how to look.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It's better to just live life as it is, naturally, rather than going around pretending one has superpowers.

 

[JustGeorge]

It's better to just live life as it is, naturally, rather than going around pretending one has superpowers.

Pretend? I don't have to pretend! Pull my finger and watch me clear a room!

But, as far as 'powers' go, I feel it'll come naturally, if it is to come at all. (Such as in the case with lucid dreams, or being able to use intuition to 'read' a situation, for example.)

 

[sun rise]

In your faith, what powers can humans develop? Is there ay moral or philosophical reason they should or should not? Is it considered in the realm of possibility?

Meher Baba described the "fourth plane of consciousness" powers and the dangers in using them

The fourth plane is the threshold of the mental world. On this plane, more than on any other subtle plane, the spiritual pilgrim is particularly susceptible to having a precipitous fall. The crisis which confronts the soul on the fourth plane is grave and hazardous, because he comes into the possession of stupendous divine powers before having brought his mind into complete subjugation. He cannot control his mind completely because, unless and until he rises onto the fifth plane which is of the mental world, he cannot directly experience or use his mind. Like the gross-conscious human soul, the subtle-conscious soul of the fourth plane also uses his mind indirectly. Now on this fourth plane the mind is fully alive. It is functioning in all its fully developed aspects of thoughts, feelings and desires, which are at the zenith of their overwhelming intensity. On the one hand, the soul is trying to gain mastery over its own insurgent mind and bring into subjugation the subversive forces of desires let loose. On the other hand, the limitless energy of the planes is completely at his disposal and is constantly seeking some expression or use.

If the soul yields to the overpowering temptations to put his powers to wrong use, there is an enormous psychic crash of unimaginable magnitude. The explosive forces thereby released bring about a complete disintegration of consciousness, subjecting it to a cataclysmic downfall from the heights of the subtle consciousness of the fourth plane to the very lowest depths of rudimentary stone consciousness which the soul experienced in the very beginnings of evolution. This psychic cataclysm of disintegration is comparable to the fusing of an electric bulb due to an irreparable short-circuit. The fallen soul has now no alternative except that of again going through the long and laborious ascent of evolving consciousness, through ages of evolution and reincarnation through numberless forms, and then again gradually and patiently ascending through the planes.

This disintegration of consciousness occurs only in the case of fourth plane consciousness and that, too, rarely — only when the powers of the fourth plane are misused. It is a fact normally that when consciousness is once gained it can never be lost, but the case of fourth plane consciousness is the one exception.