I think therefore I am, there is nothing else. My universe is truly inside my head. To go even deeper, my head as I know it makes up the idea of my head, which is also inside my head, so my head is actually also inside my head, and that head in another after that and so on and so on. The energies, events, happenings and people we perceive are viewed from inside our little beings and add up to thoughts, memories, experiences and mind-maps inside ourselves to create what it is we know and make up our psyche and our own little universe. Without me, my world collapses and everything in it decimated forever.

                The power to ponder our universe is the key that distinguishes humans from animals. It is true that we possess basic primal instincts and animal behavior like our cousin the chimp. And the chimp, aside from other apes shows some awareness of self, even viewing and acknowledging himself in the mirror while other apes such as monkies would become aggressive as if they were looking at another animal. But the chimp like the other apes and creatures still exists only to exist and nothing more. He will never be able to aspire for anything else. It matters not to the primitive ape to achieve enlightenment on any level, and such a thing as figuring out his place in the great scheme of things is the last thing on his mind.

                 Luckily for us, humans have an immeasurably great deal of mind power with a magnitude we can’t even comprehend yet. Aside from the dull day to day thinking and acting as mindless robots as we are programmed to be, we exercise some of our potential with or without even knowing it. This can be productive or counterproductive. We can psychosomatically wreak havoc on our bodies through no other influence but our own  destructive thoughts from our own minds such as chronic worrying. On a positive note, we can cure our own diseases like the case of my own grandmother who fought at least three different types of cancer on different occasions over the course of 15 years armed with a simple belief that Mary, the Mother of God would protect her. It worked.

                It is this narrator’s humble opinion that this phenomenal mind energy can be conjured up to its limit to achieve mental feats the likes of which we have never seen. With a little practice, of course.  Clairvoyant psychics, shamans, mediums, medicine men, witches, oracles and the like have throughout history been ridiculed and debunked as hoaxes. While a large percent of them  are indeed farces and con people,  I’m sure a number of those claiming to reach “the other side” and to be able to see auras and the future must be legitimate. What I am hypothesizing is that these men and women probably have not tapped into some cosmic force or afterlife or anything spectacular, but have unopened a door to an inner ability which may lie dormant in each one of us. In simplest terms, they may be using more of their brain power.

              While it is widely said that the old belief that we use less than 5f our brains is false, we can look at this myth in a new perspective. Perhaps we use most of our brains and the mind’s processes utilize all the matter in the brain which is alive and active, but we still may not be exercising all that there is to exercise. Certain abilities may need to be cultivated, abilities that are not needed in everyday activity so have atrophied, perhaps genetically over the years.

                The second we are born we are a perfect mind which just needs to be brought up in the optimal direction. We possess the capacity to learn and grow, to be able to use our human resources to the fullest. Sadly it is all downhill from then on, psychically speaking at any rate. When a child is born he or she exudes large amounts of the delta brainwave. This is the openminded, intuitive, ingenius, dreaming mind-state that we tap into during deep sleep, trances, and meditations. Then we are raised and nurtured and educated in the ways of our productive society and taught the methods and information needed to survive in the harsh environment we know.  We lose our precious delta along the way. Sometimes we are not even taught empathy, a simple principle of connecting with and understanding other humans. What we are taught is that we must possess crude thinking and hard information that is orthodox and certain. We use only our beta brainwaves because they are what is needed to think about the here and now, and to plan and to react. Nowhere, however, is there a need to be tuned-in and open-minded in the sense that we can be subjected to the full energy of the world and other life-forces. We are conditioned.

                If it is true that we can excavate our hidden human powers through meditations and practice, then I am all in. If I think, therefore I am, then I will be whatever I aspire to be. All of my ambitions could come true if I just set my mind to it, so to speak. I can improve my life with some positive thinking and some meditations to tap into my inner genius (everybody has one). Of course I don’t talk about praying to success gods, and taking potions and dancing around a fire. These things may be misconceptions about the people who are psychically prone, myths and legends about “witches” because of what the common folk doesn’t understand. What it will take is a little effort, and I truly believe that anything is possible.

               Consider string theory which states that there are a googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) of other universes with properties like ours or completely different. If this is true, and there are strange other dimensions, then not only is anything possible, but everything is certain. If there are infinite possible universes then anything that can happen has, is, and will happen. There are infinite possibilities for me. I might as well set my sights high in this universe.

                However, if I am to act to change my own life I must act now. As far as professions and careers go or even life in general I’m not getting any younger. I’m always fascinated by the achievements of great people when they were young. George Armstrong Custer a general at age 23, Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world by 30, Ben Franklin owned a book store, printing press, and a newspaper by 23, and recently our current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who graduated from Harvard Law in a record 3 years, and made partner just 2 years after that, made Chief by the young age of 50.

                Well we all can’t be Caesar, Donald Trump, or Marilyn Monroe. And I’ve reluctantly realized I’m not going to win the lottery. What I can do is hope I personally evolve to use every iota of my potential and achieve a higher mind power. I don’t want to be someone who uses their brain in pondering and daydreaming like Walter Mitty, but someone who is a thinker and a doer. With a little help with some serious meditating, intelligent action and a can-do attitude, anything can happen as far as love, career, knowledge, body, mind, and spirit.

The sky’s the limit…