Mind Power

Work was canceled today because of bad weather.  So I decided to go to Satellite to hang out with my laptop and double Americano, mostly reading a book on mindpower.

The more I read these types of things, the more I find it fascinating that people still avoid acknowledging the power of the mind. In the first 21 years of my life, I never heard anything about mind power in school. The more I find out how the mind works, I realize that the American school system is designed in a way that scatters our focus, which, I guess, helps the economy, because it encourages us pursue mind-numbing jobs we hate and that sort of thing…

Anyway, it seems like TV is talking a lot about Freemasonry “secrets”, Noetic Science, and the power of the mind as if it’s all newly revealed information. But the mind power book I mentioned was written in the 1920s, and there’s a bunch just like it from the same era. I’ve noticed that the media’s take on mind power and esoteric “secrets” is just fluffy stupid stuff, mostly being used to promote Dan Brown’s new book.

I remember going to school and church, listening to lessons about how the Occult was of the devil, and you may likely get possessed by demons if you learned about it, etc. I remember Unsolved Mysteries and TV specials about the same thing, with carefully chosen music, footage with flaming pentagrams and dead animals. In reality the Occult is defined as “hidden wisdom”, basically uncovering as much as we know about reality.

So what would happen if we found out we were much more powerful than we’ve been taught/conditioned to think? We’d probably upgrade our minds’ operating systems to the point where we didn’t need to listen to what some dude at a podium says every Sunday, we wouldn’t need a business degree to pursue business, and we wouldn’t need to watch the News to “know” what’s “really going on” in the world.  We probably wouldn’t worry anymore. We’d take responsibility for our state of existence. We’d enter a whole new state of independence, freedom, and intelligence that would allow us to go after what we truly want at our core. For some, that might be autonomy, happiness, creativity, love, self-actualization, self-transcendence.

Of course, this is only a figment of my mind. But for now, I like it, and I’m in the mood for spoon-feeding it to the masses.