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Yogis and Buddhists alike agree with the idea that a universal mind underlies and permeates everything, including space and time. This concept is one way of viewing the psychic realmthat seeing into another person's mind or into the future is simply tapping into the universal mind, the pool of infinite knowledge and information that already exists and is omnipresent. Perhaps this pool is the source of direct knowing, or psychic intuition. |
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Certain sects of Eastern mystics believe that the physical world is no more real than any that exists in the mind. By overcoming any delineation between these worlds, these gurus are said to perform feats of magic, such as walking through walls. |
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Psychic Masters: From the Middle Ages to Right Now |
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As you may have noticed, many records of amazing psychic events occurred around the turn of the changing millennium 2,000 years ago. Remarkable leadersBuddha (early on), then Christ, and a little later Muhammad and Zoroaster, all visionaries and all referred to as prophetslived at that time. These leaders both benefited from and added to the growth of ideas that were passed along the Silk Road between the East and West. And their brilliance survived the formidable Dark Ages that followed, an era that leaves a gaping hole in our knowledge of many subjects. |
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Now it's necessary to travel through time ourselves, to the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, when another explosion of information and ideas occurred. This period of time offered fertile ground for the study of the psychic realm, as more and more people accepted psychic abilities as a fact of life, but began to insist on a scientific explanation! |
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One of the earliest heroes from this period is Hildegard of Bingen (a town along the Rhine River in western Germany). An abbess who lived from 1098 until 1179, Hildegard was able to find acceptance and respect as a mystic, preacher, theologian, medical writer, author, and educated woman. Hildegard began experiencing visions when she was five years old, joined a monastery when she was eight, and became head of her community at age 38. As an adult she wrote about 26 of her visions in the book Scivias. It was examined by a papal commission, which led to Pope Eugenius III accepting her visions as authentic. |
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