A GUIDE TO SELECTING
Books About Supernatural Skills and Human Potential
How far does Mind over Matter go?
There seem to be too many anecdotes about supernatural abilities to dismiss it altogether. Meanwhile, there also seems to be too much uncertainty about it to assert anything.
There are a large number of scientific studies that confirm that our minds do affect physical reality to some degree. Mind over matter is undoubtedly true on a small scale, like the arrangement of water molecules. It’s just not clear to what extent this holds for larger objects, processes and distances.
With the use of hypnosis and self-hypnosis, it has been found that breasts can grow in a matter of weeks, that people can numb body parts so that they don’t need anesthesia for medical procedures or are structurally able to beat the odds in guessing experiments.
Central elements in the acquisition of skills such as telepathy, healing abilities or being able to endure physically challenging circumstances seem to be one’s ability to induce slow brain wave states and to visualize strongly.
From a physical perspective, what often seems to be at play, are changes in the direction of the bioelectric currents that run through our bodies. In other words, our minds seem to be able to change the number of electrons in atoms, making the atom different.
Since this topic is multifaceted, we have created separate articles from various sources that go into greater depth on various supernatural abilities.
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The topics are:​
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Meditation, Visualization, Breath primer (coming soon)
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(Self-)Hypnosis primer (coming soon)​
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Types of Books about Developing Supernatural Skills
Here you find a list of archetypal books about developing supernatural skills from which we captured the essence in a short summary. The books are listed in a random order. We don't earn any commission on your selection.
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"The Body Electric"
Robert Becker introduces the concept of bioelectricity and how it can be harnessed for healing, regeneration and replenishing energy levels. He explains how electrical charge, driven by the quality and direction of our attention, can affect our bodies. His work is grounded in years of experiments of which he provides detailed reports. He also provides a model how many supernatural abilities could be explained as changes of bioelectric charge with focused attention.
"Questions for the Lion Tamer"
This book is a bundle of articles by John Chavez on the relation between supernatural abilities, consciousness and the hypothesis that we are able to produce the same hormones as if we were ingesting DMT. The articles include unique hypothesis, cutting edge scientific findings as well as practical protocols for e.g. developing the ability for telepathy.
"Natural and Supernatural – a history of the paranormal"
Brian Inglis challenges the materialistic assumption that underlies most of our society and sciences with a historical overview of paranormal phenomena and their cultural evolution. He shows how belief in such phenomena has a long history of acceptance as well as a large body of supporting evidence.
"Becoming Supernatural"
Joe Dispenza draws on neuroscience and quantum physics for his protocol for developing abilities for healing, heightened intuition and influencing outcomes. His method consists of meditation practices that increase your theta level brainwave activity, slow rhythmic breathing to synchronize the heart and brain, and visualizing the opening of your third eye (i.e. activating the pineal gland, the brain part in the center of your eyebrows. Then, visualize your desired future or changes and chances are a lot higher they will manifest.
"Mysteries"
Colin Wilson argues that mystical and supernatural experiences point to untapped potentials of the human mind. He suggests that paranormal experiences hint at a higher stage of mental evolution and draws on thinkers like Gurdjieff, Jung, and Husserl to argue that ordinary perception is limited. He provides a large number of fascinating anecdotes.
"Pranic Nourishment"
This controversial book by Jasmuheen makes the claim that it’s possible to obtain a frequency with your mind and body where you start deriving energy from sunlight and life at large. It claims that the more you’re grounded in this energy, the less food you need. However extreme this might sound, there is a scientific argumentation for the possibility to live without food. Not in this book, but you can read about it here.
Bukuru's Zero-Books Approach​​​​​​​​​
Zooming out from the books and other sources for the articles, a pattern emerged in how one can develop abilities to access a state where the mind seems to have more effect on matter than in our ordinary state of mind.
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The bottom line is that, in order to develop supernatural abilities, it would be beneficial to:
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meditate several times a day, for several weeks, to increase the connections between your brain's left and right hemispheres (called the corpus callosum)
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focus during meditations on your pineal gland to increase melatonin levels
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visualize yourself able of doing that which excites you – feel the excitement – as this involves the electromagnetic field of the heart as an amplifier for the projection of your mind's visualization
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let go of egoic 'will' to see it become manifested; trust the universe to provide you with the abilities of that same frequency that are in your best interest
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visualize yourself being successful at creating through visualization
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have some patience; not get discouraged (which lowers your frequency and affect the outcomes negatively) from a perfectly normal run up period before results appear
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optional: find someone to show you the exact frequency of a certain ability; get initiated in a certain discipline (like with finding a particular radio signal)​
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If you're not sure after reading these chapters, there's also the option to try it out for yourself if you can develop any of the featured skills, perhaps only slightly. It's believed that your best chances are with the skill that excites you most. Now, you don't have to become an expert. Your objective is to validate any of the claims and, in effect, falsify the theory that the mind has no significant effect on matter. It would be an experiment to the benefit of your mental model.
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About Bukuru
The core philosophy of Bukuru is that each person should test their own beliefs. The project started as a quest to categorize self-development books in such a way that it would become easier to find books that match your beliefs. However, along the way we concluded that the essence of most books can be captured in a few sentences – if the idea is original at all. Instead of helping people buy books, we now help people not buying books.
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