Telepathy

When someone thinks about making love he feels elated, but after making love he is left feeling depressed. He feels it was not so great after all. Why? When the thought was conceived it had the potentiality of a hundred units, but by the time it reached the periphery, it was reduced to one unit. Sometimes the potentiality becomes zero or even negative. If the body is sick or weak, so much energy is dissipated while it is traveling to the periphery that it can even become negative. So if you are sick, you may have expected to feel happy when you held your beloved’s hand, but instead, by the time the thought has traveled to your hand, taking her hand makes you unhappy. The experience becomes negative. Rudolf says that if this is true, then man will never become happy.

Is there a way that one’s thought can directly jump into another’s mind? Religion says there is. And through hundreds of experiments Rudolf has also confirmed that my thought can take a direct jump into another’s mind, without using the medium of my physical body. To do so, I stop my thought at the third-eye center by closing my eyes, and make it jump directly to your third eye. The whole system of telepathy depends on this art.

Rudolf demonstrated this by transmitting a thought one thousand miles. Other experiments, at Harvard, in Russia and in many other countries, have given proof of telepathy. In this experiment, you concentrate your thought on your third eye, as if your thought has become a small sun revolving rapidly in your mind. That small sun becomes focused and highly potent. The thought is not allowed to spread to the rest of the body, which would allow loss of energy – the energy has to accumulate at one point where it remains focused like a strong ray of light. Just when you feel that it cannot become more focused, more concentrated, that is the moment for the thought to jump. At exactly that moment you have to project the thought into the mind of the other person. However far away the person may be, he must be in your field of imagination, and you need to imagine that the thought has entered into the mind of the other person through his third eye. Once this happens, the thought is transferred.

Telepathy is the art of projecting a thought into someone else without any physical medium. The third eye has been meditated on in many ways for religious purposes. It can be used for communicating with the cosmic mind as well as with the human mind. For example, you are sitting in front of Mahavira’s statue…Mahavira’s consciousness has become one with the infinite, but if you concentrate your total energy at the third-eye center and project it into the statue’s head, your thought will be transmitted to the consciousness of Mahavira. In this way, many people who have come after Mahavira have been helped. For such people, Buddha, Mahavira and Christ are not dead but alive here and now. For them there is a direct communion.

This experiment can also be used to take a direct jump into the infinite. But how will you find the third eye of the infinite? To where will you project your thought energy? To where will you transmit it?

It will be easier to communicate through the medium of an idol. Directly projecting the thought beam into the infinite is difficult. It can be done, but for that there is a different technique. The religions which have not used idols or statues of religious figures have used that technique, but it is very difficult. So even those religions which at first did not use idols finally came around to using them.

　

From Osho, Hidden Mysteries, Chapter 4