Dear Skeptic of the "Yogic Force"
By John L. Waters
June 17, 2005
©Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
Thank you for your articulate reply.
I appreciate your skepticism, and I realize that ever since Akhnaton who lived about 1350BC many proponents of a "solar healing method" or a "Divine Healer" have been proposed, and some of these stories are certainly hard to believe! Recall that Jesus identified Himself as the "Light of the world" (that is the sun). These sayings and stories about "Divine or Supernatural Healing" are very much folklore like the familiar saying "red sky at night, sailors delight, red sky at morning, sailors take warning." After meteorology became a real science, however, the truth behind this rhyme became clear. But without the real science, there were a great many skeptics of weather folklore. And so it is today about the "yogic force." I do not claim to fly or claim other popular yogic miracles. I don’t claim to turn water into wine and heal blind people just by spitting in my hands and touching their eyes. I just report the facts as best I can, and my life and works are part of the facts.
When environmental conditions are favorable and I'm at a natural healing spot I show a person how I treated myself so as to be rejuvenated and healed. The evidence comes in forms that are measurable. In fact for years after my doctors commented on my good health and my youthful appearance. This was the case even though I often felt under great stress because of my atypical dress and behaviors. Yes, even today I do go to medical doctors, and I do believe in science. I am a "bridge-builder," and a connection between “unrelated” disciplines.
Around 1978, to get myself out of the box of the present medical orthodoxy, and to treat my own conditions which are listed at
Treating My Own Chronic Physical And Mental Disorders
I used non-rational intelligence as an aid to my thinking. This non-rational intelligence expressed itself through my rapid production of new art, new music, new writings, and other inventions. With this rejuvenated creativity I helped a number of local persons solve their problem. The biggest problem I've had is communicating in words what this work is about. Residues of my autism linger. My skill in debate is not my strong suit.
The truth is, from 1940 on, no one knew what to do about my autism. I grew up somewhat autistic. Over the years I developed more chronic problems than autism. The method I worked out had an amazing effect. In 1971 and again in 1978 my new behavior was shocking to people, because I’d become so different. The good news is that my emotional life was no longer a roller coaster ride! My painful and crippling arthritis was in remission! My Tripod website gives more details. And well, maybe all this healing was coincidence, but I don't think so. All this was and is wonderful to tell!
One proof that this is real came when I tested other people to see how sensitive they were to the "yogic force." I might call this "unitive sense." People told me that I should invent my own name, but there are already dozens of names for the same thing. Why invent yet another?? Anyway, I tested other people and found they reported a similar effect without my telling them what to expect. If my visions or extra sight were just a "psychosis," or a "ghost," then other people wouldn't see exactly the same effect. But this effect is often described by other people. See my website The Mystical Energy
Whether you call this extra sense odyle, od, esp, mesmerism, GOD, orgone, hallucination, demon, genius, or SATAN, all those words are just like the ink that a frightened squid shoots out to hide in. The important thing is that the describable effect and the human response is predictable. But many persons have to run the same experiment and they have to be monitored by trained observers, and all this takes money and time. This isn't just a ten-minute psych test that a professor can give his class at the university.
Speaking of psych tests, for several years two Humboldt State University professors of psychology did give their classes some preliminary tests related to my art work and my music work. One year, in a class of 35 students, three of the students drew figures that looked rather like a coffin. About a week later an HSU student was murdered in the forest behind the campus. Maybe what looks like clairvoyance or prophecy was just a coincidence. Without a testable theory for a hook, we really have nothing to hang our cups on.
Over the years I have narrowed my focus and concentrated on the basic issue. That issue is presenting some theoretical model that defines a timeless and spaceless hyperdimension, higher realm, or psychic channel through which telepathy and prophecy can manifest. Without any theoretical model, it is hard for any scientist to know even how to begin testing it! If there is no theory, how can you ever test it??? So I've examined mathematics itself and found the very foundations of mathematics that is the mind-body link…that which integrates the physical universe with the non-physical universe. As we might expect, a great number of autistic children unwittingly apply the same mathematical model...same as I did! Following this line of thought, to heal myself I just became even more autistic than I'd been as a boy. After I'd developed that non-verbal part of myself, I used my "autistic" intelligence or my "idiot savant" ability to work out the basic theory. I learned to draw and write using my "savant" talent...not the conventional verbal-social talent I was expected to perfect in school.
Same as other "savants," as an "autistic" boy I was known to do things that were "impossible." My autism was pretty much nipped in the bud, however, and I grew up in a progressive wealthy community and went to well-endowed public schools and advanced fairly well despite an informal diagnoses in 1954 of being "probably brain damaged." At that time my school was concerned because I was absent a third of the time or more. This was because several other kids were mean to me, because of my autism. I also was often sick with a cold. The daily stress on me was great. Later at the university I excelled in my studies of math and science because I could concentrate on these subjects and my life was stress-free. At the college I wasn't being intimidated by bullies anymore. Feeling secure, my academic performance improved greatly. Furthermore, at the university, I was sometimes encouraged to be a creative thinker and a critical thinker.
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About the author: John L. Waters is an amateur psychologist and independent researcher on self-healing, integration, and
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