OK, Eric, I understand, but before saying: "we don't need technology to experience telepathy or spacetime annihilation" we must be sure that we are actually capable of reading thoughts or teleporting our awareness everywhere we want. I may be very dumb or incapable, but after decades of meditation, I still cannot read thoughts or teleport my consciousness.
What I have found by observing your progress; is that you are a excellent social arbitrator. I am of the strong opinion that psychic feats, although quite fascinating, are not a sign of advanced spirituality. This is what I was told many times by monks and nuns. In fact their are those with ‘gifts’ of the spirit who do not use them wisely and therefore they ‘take a fall’ spiritually speaking. It can be a kind of ‘spiritual ego’ Still I can appreciate the experiences of Eric throughout his stay here and others with psychic abilities also. Although Paramahansa Yogananda spoke highly of the development of the reasoning capacity of human beings. He also spoke of the combination of reason and intuition as important to spiritual development. These qualities attract friends and people who seek council as they did for King Solomon. Even more important than psychic gifts developed by spiritual discipline.
We do not always choose what are gifts are in spirit , yet I have found, if our interests take us in a certain direction because of our desires, we also may be given gifts and abilities in those areas. This I have found out through personal experiences. The test then becomes; how will we use such gifts and abilities. To serve our spiritual Self, or our desires?
To those who have been given: much is required! It is also expressed in the Bible slightly different;
The verse “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” comes from Luke 12:48 where it concerns knowing the Lord’s will for our life.
