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Recieved: 2001/10/28 07:26
Subject: [K-list] powers
From: Michael Read

Ah, if awakening/enlightenment/spiritual 'growth' were about powers
and miracles, what then? heeheehee we would all have to become super
beings first. And of course if we were all super-duper caped crusaders
then we wouldn't need to become awakened/enlightened.

Shiddis are not required. They are only more of the 'possibilites' of
any given life. They are more phenomena and experience. They may or
may not be part of any given person's awakening.

Even Jesus said that he only did miracles so that some folks might
believe. He preferred that folk had even the smallest amount of faith.

I have been enjoying reading the different responses to the siddhis
poll. What seems to be a common and I might add, graceful, thread is
the unwillingness to take personal advantage of those siddhis. This is
quite excellent, I think.

One must be very careful with powers. Properly used, they can create
an opening for the user as well as the recipient of that use.
Immaturely used, powers will bang the user right back. If not
immediately, then sooner or later.

When I was a kid of about 14 (50 something now) I wanted to have super
powers. Well, if you read as much science fiction and as many comic
books as I did then...you would too. :-)

So, I sat down one day to work on getting 'powers beyond those of
mortal men'. No, I wasn't sure how to do it. I just knew that if I
concentrated hard enough that something wonderful would happen.

There I was trying so hard to achieve a 'breakthrough'. Then something
started 'speaking' to me. It had the feel of a kindly old uncle or
aunty. It asked me what I would do with super powers, if I had them.

I replied that I would battle eveil and the bad guys. And the
'speaker' asked me how I would know who the bad guys were. That was
easy, they are the ones who hurt people. They should be stopped I
thought to this 'voice'.

It responded that that was fine, but how would I stop them? I thought
that I would force them to stop what they were doing. Alright it said.
Then it offered that the bad guys would still be bad guys. Could I
change them so that they weren't bad guys?

I thought and thought about that. It seemed obvious that the bad
people had to have some sort of radical shift in their way of thinking
and being. To change them one would have to make dramatic changes in
the very fundamental functioning of the 'bad guys'. One would have to
change their chemistry, their personality and that way they could be
'corrected'.

Then the energy of the presence gave off the most kindly of feelings.
It asked me, then, if I thought I had the right to change a person so.

Then the thought came that in order for any change to occur, it had to
start within the 'bad guy'. If it didn't, if it came as an outside
force, it would not be a true change and it would have no meaning and
no beauty.

The presence exuded the feeling of - ah yes, much better!

loveya - michael

ps safety first when using power tools ":^)

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