From BREAKTHROUGH TO CREATIVITY: Your Higher Sense Perception, (DeVorss, 1967)
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Dr. Mark told me that he had always been able to see in the dark as easily as he could see in the daylight. As a child he had been perplexed about why people needed a light at night. He did not know that most people could not see in the dark. Later on in his life he was a Marine in the Second World War. He had had no difficulty in leading his men along the most intricate jungle paths at night.
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Dr. Philip, a physician in the Middle West, showed a rather unusual pattern of abilities. He was also well-known for his diagnostic ability and because of his highly satisfactory results with his patients. He was frequently called in as a consultant at the Mayo Clinic. His many patients spoke of him with overwhelming enthusiasm. He had been careful through the years to conceal his really fantastic abilities. He finally felt that for the record he should discuss these abilities but only on the condition that nothing was said about them until he had passed on. Dr. Philip could see any organ in the patient's body and observe its function and any pathology that might be present. He knew the complete condition of his patient in the first few minutes as the person sat before him in his office. In order to protect his medical standing he said nothing about this and always put the patient through routine laboratory tests before giving the diagnosis. In addition to this he also had a good deal of precognitive ability and could see the course of the disease or malfunction. Furthermore, out of a number of possible treatments he had an almost instant conviction about which treatment to use.
Dr. Philip spent two days giving the history of his early experiences and the gradual improvement in his abilities through the years. He said that for many years he had regularly attended "classes" when he was asleep at night. During the sleep state he found himself in what appeared to be a medical college where night after night clear and logical medical lectures were given in perfectly intelligent sequence with none of the confusion or irrelevancies that normally accompany a dream state. He spoke with individuals and professors who were present in these classes and discussed medical problems. He felt as alert and as aware as he did in waking consciousness and on waking he could remember everything that had been said. In these classes he was trained to see into the physical body and observe its condition and function. Early in this experience he discovered that he could see into the physical bodies of patients when he was wide awake and at work in his office as easily as he did in the night classes when he was asleep.
Dr. Philip demonstrated his ability to give the medical history and diagnosis of two people he had never seen before. In each case the patient sat down in front of him fully clothed. He proceeded at once to give the patient's medical history from birth and to diagnose the ailment then present. This information was verified by the medical records and by diagnosis by other physicians using the usual diagnostic procedures.
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She [Dr. Alicia] was willing to discuss her abilities on the condition that her real name would not be mentioned. She told me that she sees an energy field interpenetrating the patient's body and extending a short distance around it. As soon as a patient walks into her office she knows where the ailment is located because of the condition of the energy field. Through the years she has correlated the usual methods of medical diagnosis with her observations of this energy field. Gradually she was able to make a clear and accurate diagnosis simply by observing the energy field.
Dr. Alicia has another ability of a different type which I have encountered in many physicians. She senses or feels within her own body the pain or discomfort precisely where the patient feels pain or discomfort. [This is known as the 'Bill Clinton sense'. -ed] In earlier years she found this confusing and very distressing. In order to stay in the therapy field she had to learn to tune this out for the sake of her own efficiency and well-being. She uses this ability only when she definitely chooses to do so to assist in diagnosis or in her evaluation of the progress of the treatment.
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Sometimes an individual does not discover his [psychic] ability until he is placed in a situation where it automatically becomes useful to him.
Paul is an interesting example of this. For a number of years Paul managed a small restaurant. He was eager to move into a more interesting and satisfying vocation, but he was limited because he had no training above high school level. Eventually he sought vocational guidance and advice. He showed an exceptionally good I.Q. and a marked ability for writing and communication. He was advised to take training in technical writing. He followed the advice, took his training and did well on his first technical writing job. Within a year he was promoted and made a member of a team in a highly technical industry. His new job involved writing very technical articles dealing with material in the field of physics and electronics.
At this point Paul took a short course in elementary electronics, primarily to get a command of the vocabulary. In spite of the fact that he had practically no scientific background he was very soon writing complicated scientific articles, working smoothly with top-level engineers and scientists. The scientists with whom he worked took it for granted that he had a good scientific education. Paul was not aware at first that there was anything unusual about his swift grasp of scientific ideas and the articles he was writing. He was taking it for granted that his constant association with scientists and engineers had given him the knowledge he seemed to possess. This did not really make an impression on him until a rather unusual occasion made him aware of it.
Paul's firm handles large business contracts. One day an important conference was scheduled with government representatives to discuss a new contract with the firm. The conference had to be arranged on short notice and two of the men very essential to the conference were out of town. In desperation the vice president asked Paul to be present at the conference, since the two superiors in his department were not available. There was considerable discussion at the conference table, and finally certain points came up which only Paul's two superiors could discuss. The discussion bogged down, and somewhat as a last resort the vice president asked Paul if he had any information relative to these points. Paul's account of what happened next is most interesting. He was personally not familiar with the installations under discussion.
He said that almost immediately he seemed, "in his mind," to be at the installation, although he knew he was present physically at the conference table. He could "see" the installation clearly. The right scientific words flowed into his mind for describing its function and capability. He found himself giving the information needed clearly and fluently. His report made an excellent impression and turned out to be completely accurate. Paul was a little dazed by this. The vice president felt that he must have been overlooking a very talented young engineer. After the conference he complimented Paul on pulling them out of a bad spot and asked him where he had taken his engineering training. Paul explained that he did not have a degree and had never had any engineering training.
"Incredible!" remarked the vice president. "For God's sake, don't tell anybody. How did you do it?"
Paul was still confused by what had happened and was trying to sort it out in his own mind. He lamely offered the suggestion that it must be his constant association as a technical writer with all the fine engineers in the firm.
After this experience Paul began to be more observant of what happened in his work. He found to his surprise that he could tune in on the mind of a scientist with whom he might be working. For the time being he seemed to comprehend clearly what the scientist knew. In this way he was able to put into writing precisely what the scientist wanted. Experimenting a little further Paul found that he could tune in on any installation in the plant and see the parts and how they worked. This was a peculiar experience. He was clearly aware of being physically present at his desk in his office but also at the same time being present in another place looking at and comprehending some complicated mechanism. He had never known that he could do this until the urgent need at the conference table apparently triggered the ability. He discovered that he could do other mental gymnastics. When he wanted to find his way around the large area of several square miles where he worked, he could mentally soar high over the area. As he did this he could see how all the buildings were arranged and spot the best route to take in order to get to his destination in the shortest time. He began to use this faculty as a matter of everyday experience.
Later on Paul moved into a higher level job which involved a certain amount of systems planning. He found that if he put his mind on a problem for several days, studying it intensively from all angles available to him, he reached a point where suddenly the solution and the plan flashed into his mind complete in every detail. This completed program often involved things that he had not studied and had not gone into in his examination of the problem. On one occasion he was placed on a new job in systems planning and told that they hoped for a completion of the job within six to eight months. A week later he handed his superior a completed program for the whole systems procedure on the project. This program was later passed and used. His superior was aghast and insisted that he could not possibly have completed the study and plan in a week, since the barest minimum time was five or six months.
Paul insisted that he look over the material anyway. Three days later the superior came back, astounded. He explained to Paul that the plan was excellent, perfect, couldn't be better, but it was impossible, that he could not have done it in that length of time. Besides, they weren't ready for it yet. Other people couldn't work that fast. Nobody could work that fast! Besides, his superior couldn't explain to anybody how Paul had done it.
When Paul asked what he wanted him to do, his superior told him to shut his office door, get some books and read, twiddle his thumbs, do what he liked for the next five months, but keep himself occupied. He was not to present the program or to let it be known that it was finished until his superior asked for it. It was certainly what they wanted but Paul was to lay low and turn it in at the appointed time.
Paul has precognitive dreams from time to time which sooner or later come to pass in his everyday life. He keeps a record of these dreams and of the corroborating evidence to be sure, as he puts it, he isn't kidding himself. He had had such dreams all his life but paid little attention to them until he began to be aware of his other Higher Sense Perceptions.
Among other things Paul discovered that he could tune in on complicated machinery which had broken down in function and know immediately what was wrong. He could point out the exact location of the trouble and what needed doing. He has found this a useful ability around his home. He has had little occasion to use it in any other way.
At times when Paul is working on some project or concerned about some personal problem geometrical patterns and symbols flash into his mind. These patterns or symbols are accompanied by a whole body of ideas and concepts which in an instant explain and clarify the problem which he had had on his mind. He calls it symbol-thinking. This particular experience of Paul's is interesting because a number of other people have described a similar experience.
Paul is a quiet individual who has learned to say little and who very wisely says nothing about his [psychic] abilities to his friends and colleagues. It took some time to get him to discuss these things with me. He makes a definite effort to fit himself into the accepted pattern of activity because he does not want to be singled out as being "different." At times his lack of educational background has been a handicap in getting the opportunity to do a job. Once he is on a job his performance is so outstanding that no one questions his educational qualifications. Once he is established in a job he seems to move quietly into the position in the firm where he can use his fantastic abilities to advantage.
I feel sure that if individuals like Paul could be brought together in a research and training program where these abilities could be tested and evaluated we would discover a whole new approach to a source of creative talent. At present the individual who has such abilities is often considered a little odd. If he is not careful he gets tagged with such words as "psychic" or "crackpot." It is no wonder the more capable and intelligent individual quietly conceals such ability.
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