The Power of Mind

In the middle of winter in the Himalayas, yoga adepts sit outside naked practicing a technique called "Tum-mo" to generate body heat. Through visualization and breathing exercises the adapt imagines a small fire burning at the base of his spine. He then concentrates this energy to fill his body with heat.

To test an adept's ability, he is required to remain naked on a mountainside throughout a winter night. And if survival were not enough, the adept must dry sheets which have been dipped in icy water, then placed around their body. Not one sheet, but one after another. With each new sheet, the adept turns on a burst of psychic heat.

Some who have witnessed this feat have reported that there is often competition among novice Tum-mo adepts to see who can dry the most sheets.

Quantum physicists say our world resembles a thought form more than anything else -- a reality we have dreamed into existence. Matter is energy, and there is no physical basis for matter. So it follows that we all have powers beyond our present imagination. Tum-mo may be only a faint glimmer of our powers within.

No wonder mind programming techniques are so effective when used regularly.

Some reporters of the new physics say consciousness should be able to create matter. For years we have read about Eastern mystics manifesting objects and demonstrating an ability to bio-locate. But such feats are not limited to gurus. My friend Patti Conklin has often been reported to be working at healing an individual in one city while teaching in front of a group of people in another city.

Einstein's discovery, E=mc2, tells us that matter is highly condensed energy. The same concept is reported in ancient Tantric texts, but is called "chit," or consciousness itself.

I am energy. You are energy. The objects surrounding you are swirling molecules of condensed energy and we're all vibrating within a frequency we have all chosen to experience. So the mystics and scientists are in agreement. We're living in an illusion.

In "Tales of Power," Carlos Castaneda said don Juan "had already made the point that there was no world at large but only a description of the world which we had learned to visualize and take for granted."

Maybe so, but it sure feels real.