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 No.137399

I am convinced psychic powers are not like muscles that get stronger from being used and worked out.

They only get stronger through virtue. Virtue accompanies the realization of the self. The self is freed from the bondage of false identification and becomes operative over these phantoms of the self. The result is mindfulness; a sense of self in relation to the bodies used by the self and the thought impressions that pass through the self. This is being awake; and is contrary to the stupor we walk in every day the slave of circumstances and so many other inferior principles.

The power behind psychic powers is desire. Desire flows like a river and only the flow changes with the expansion and contraction of the self.

Furthermore I am convinced that the character, its tendencies, are established as a pattern in the spirit. There is no accident in the place of our birth and it is clear such a relation exists by our daily experience of limitation and individuality. So I believe the only gain which is gain for the spirit is in the improvement of the character; the cultivation of virtue. We get to keep this inheritance into the next life even if we have to die the second death.

It is the only way to progress past those plateaus in psychic development (actually a better word is unfoldment) is to dwell more and more in consciousness on the plane of spirit. Literally lifting up the mind to heaven.

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 No.137400

The loss of desire would be what I'd characterize as the catharsis needed to acquire strength. You're using words like virtue, but being full of desire is the exact opposite of enlightenment. People feel great desire to eat and be gluttonous, this doesn't give them anything. It hinders their ability to act and judge, if they want to, and it hinders their ability to feel enjoyment when they're without.

The lack of desire, to let energy flow freely and without obstruction, is what's required.

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 No.137402

>>137400

Although I would admit that focus, distinct from desire and covetousness, is required for anything to either be developed or be cleared away.

The heart is the secret either way, as the source of the intellect and reasoning. Anything removed from it becomes like a malignant tumor.

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 No.137403

this is very true. the irony of magic is that the more apt one becomes to use it the less there will be need or want to use it.

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 No.137405

Psychic abilities do not get stronger with use but you can learn to activate them more reliably with use.

Prolonged use could increase virtue as well if you use your practice for philosophical exploration and experimentation.

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 No.137414

Psychic powers has the word power, and that word's connotation relates to something physical and measurable, such as electric charge or kilo-newtons. Psychic skills and psychic awareness may be more correct ways to think of it, to pursue a more clear understanding through training. I've heard of the brain be referred to as a filter instead of a center of thinking and I think this is a concise way of putting it. Character and virtue sound like good places to start though, there is something to self-improvement on the state of being, and to gain the universe's favor.

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 No.137416

>>137414

>I've heard of the brain be referred to as a filter

Feels more like a platform that you can place things on and build upon. Like a factory, raw materials need to be sent in but that doesn't mean any production doesn't occur. If you're not the source of your thoughts then you're merely being possessed. The mind of an NPC is probably similar to that, being a filter for thoughts that aren't your own.

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 No.137441

>>137400

The loss of desire just leads to anhedonia and brainfog and feeling like you're merging with matter.

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 No.137443

>>137441

That sounds like depression.

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 No.137447

>>137441

Which is closer to frustration caused by unresolved problems. The loss of desire can't come from you attempting to abandon something entirely. That's just you changing your mind, which can change at the drop of a hat. The heart is much slower to move.

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 No.137448

>>137447

The change for me personally comes through rational and emotional disambiguation. Since the retard method of lobotomizing yourself makes me want to obliterate my skull with a shotgun, although that would provide similar effects to the retard method.

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 No.137815

>Lift the mind up to heaven

So… you lift to get stronger, just like with muscles.

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