In my earlier posts I explored how to develop siddhis according to ancient yogic texts, and siddhis as evolution.
Siddhis are fascinating. There is a perspective in Tibetan Buddhism that enlightenment is itself a form of siddhi. This neatly flips on its head the assumption that enlightenment and siddhis are separate.
What counts as a siddhi has at times been extraordinarily broad. For example, savant like counting abilities, as with Dustin Hoffman’s character in the movie Rain Man, have been regarded as a kind of siddhi. So has a gift with making money!
All the parapsychological phenomena – psychokinesis, telepathy, energy healing, clairvoyance or remote viewing, etc – would all be classed as siddhis.
Contemplation, concentration, and meditation are the means to acquiring siddhis in the ancient texts. Many modern techniques are similar, involving prolonged visualization.
To explore siddhis control over and use of imagination is key. Imagination can sound unreal, which is unfortunate, because controlled or creative visualizatioin is essentially the same as imagination. The term ‘visualization’ can also be a problem because actually generating visual imagination is not important – you can use imagined feelings, sounds, tastes, or smells, too.
Use your imagination to begin building the foundation to developing siddhis.
