Mind OVER Matter???

What has been the ultimate human wish… I know where your mind is going right now: a million dollars, maybe love for life, maybe a Mercedes, immortality, invincibility, some ambitions to be fulfilled and for the naughty ones: I wish for three more wishes.

But all this is a creation of this time of materialism. I mean a millennia earlier people would be wishing for a fine Arabic horse instead of a red merc, a being the king instead of some other position of power in today’s world. Before I begin to make sense once again just bear with me a story that comes form the vedic times.

Once in the ashram of a great rishi during the times of gurukula, a group of students were fighting. While one group headed by say Bheem maintained that the bodily power or muscle power is more important and invincible and another group lead by say Krishna maintained that thoughts had more power and invincibility. While Bheem maintained that in times of need it is the Muscle power that counts, Krishna gave examples like immortality of thought against the body.

The rishi got interested and decided to end all argument. He called upon Bheem who was the strongest of the group and fielded him against the students in a wrestling match. The other students were no doubt defeated in no time but then the rishi paired all the students together against Bheem and he was grounded.

Now to test mental power he asked Krishna to ask a question to be solved by the students, first alone and then in conjunction. Krishna asked the a very difficult question (now I am not sure about the exact question asked but that will have little relevance to the point I want to state), being, “What travels faster than light?” While the students could not solve it individually, they had no luck solving it together either. The answer was: “Thoughts”.

The rishu thus proved that while strength can be matched by its multiplication, thoughts or mind cannot be matched by multiplication. Hence he proved that mind is more important.

Okay, story time over. When was the last time you got your way by thoughts or reason? Isn’t every mind person or a geek a bullied subject? Even after proving every thing and every reason in the end a strong person/country/weapon-owners have their way.

While thoughts or mind are more powerful they have not been potentially used and the strength of matter is what matters.

Coming to my initial question, just go over the very few options I gave you and the ones you thought. There is a common denominator in all of them: POWER!! (Here we will leave the ones who asked for love, they are crazy romantics in another world, far flung from reality).

POWER! POWER! POWER! That’s the reality of life. The one who has power wields the way, those who do not crave for it and walk on the wielded paths. This has been the ultimate human wish whether it was a cave man whose food and cave ladies were looted by the more powerful cave men, a man in the last century who saw the sultan with his power and position takes all, or we who wish for it in form of money or position.

The ultimate human wish is UNASSAILABLE, INVINCIBLE, UNCHALLENGED POWER, amounting to challenge and win death itself.

Now that we have established that human craves for power and the thoughts are more powerful than the matter so let me combine both and give a very likeable and unbelievable situation of mind over matter. Simply put how would you like that you could kill a person double your size and strengths by power of your thoughts alone??

Let me again explain this mind over matter theory that has been with us form times immemorial, sometimes in myths and beliefs and sometimes as scientific test and speculations. We all know that if a burning piece of charcoal is pressed against your arm it will cause a burn on your arm and pain in your thoughts. Is the reverse possible? Can our thoughts alone cause burn on your arm?? Is it possible to affect the physical world by the abstract power of our thoughts?

While almost all mythologies of the world had at least one God or hero with this ability. Our mythology gives this to Krishna, who could not only produce matter from nowhere, but could also maneuver his sudarshan chakra, through his thoughts. This is just one example from the many that exist and even more we do not know about. In fact it was this ability of a person to affect the physical world with his thoughts that placed him in a Godly enshrine.

We all know that the mysteries of the mind are far from getting unraveled. Each probe into the understanding of the human mind is like a dig deeper into the space, just making our realization of our limitations and dwarfism against the whole universe and ourselves. While even the best of human minds untapped less that 1% of the total human potential there is so much more beyond our veil of ignorance. Déjà vu, Pre-cognition, telekinetics, telepathy are just the tip of the iceberg.

Then again comes the question of generation of thoughts. We know that our physical conditions affect the way we think, a panic situation induces panic all around. Then again can we change the physical world’s scenario with our thoughts alone? Can thinking good make situations of goodness all around?

You will have found me posing more questions than giving you answer. This is as far as we have gotten today and if you are still reading this write up and my ridiculous questions I think I have achieved my purpose: The acceptance of these questions. The first step to finding a solution is accepting a question exists. And at this point you may have a slightest belief when I say that mind over matter is possible.

All of us have experienced déjà vu or precognition once at least. Being at a place for the first time and feeling familiar or doing something for the first time but feeling of having done that or experienced that moment sometime before. That’s ‘déjà vu’ for you and if you haven’t experienced it, I believe precognition will familiarize you. Feeling edgy for no reason, deciding to stay back and knowing something bad is going to happen for no good reason. We all have had times when we just knew something in the future, but believe me that nagging feeling or moment of precognition does put you at par with the octopus Paul.

While déjà vu and precognition reveal that our mind is wired beyond the scope of neurons in our body, they also prove the existence of a reality very different form ours, but a reality none the less. It’s a reality which does not exist for us, just as our reality is a question in that one. The above phenomenon is just a peak into that reality, through our mind. Precognition is knowing the path of the continuum through our mind, or a reflex that we get because of a certain course of actions in another reality. Déjà vu is having experienced a certain thing in another reality and realizing it in this one, just for a moment.

I will not divulge into the ‘another reality’ factor here, just accept it as it is. So our mind is just more than a processing and storage unit to be used during exams. Maybe when properly utilized it is capable of much more. Tele-kinetics is another form of mind over matter, that being moving things by thoughts alone. Research all over is done on it. It’s strange to find that the biggest mystery is just on the top of your head, your head itself, or technically our subconscious.

But even if we break through and develop this I am afraid it will be used for the ‘wrong’ purposes. Governments will be able to define the physical world by thoughts defying nature even more. And of course there will be a counter or a defense system developed by your brain itself. The cyber war as it exists today will move to the war of thoughts, literally. I just find no person using it for any better purposes.

 Don’t believe me? Just rewind a little and remember what got you excited about reading all this in the first place:

THE ABILTY TO KILL SOMEONE BY THOUGHTS ALONE!!!!