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They use a greater part of their brain than normal people and how do they do this: they shut down their body-thinking mode, and in silence there is a kind of “beingness” or streaming from another mind that is all knowing.

I think the horizon of the mind also exists outside of the brain. The mystics tend to think that according to natural law there is a mind in existence that is all True. Lets call this the Cosmic-Mind or the Absolute. I think the power of the mind can be increased by silencing the body-mind and streaming from the Cosmic-mind where the thinking process of this and that is more like a streaming process of information and is always true and a fact.

You might think that silencing the body-mind is difficult until you consider this: thinking is sound first and that is the mind has to hear what you are thinking for it to know what you are thinking so it can process the information. This is an anomaly in us that we have to silently speak what we are thinking to have to think at all. If we break this link then thinking immediately stops. They seem to have to work simultaneously. There are other forms of thinking that still work as in pictorial thinking, your intuition is still present and a sense of knowing that comes from this silence where sub-vocal speech is not necessary. This silent thinking or a kind of streaming continues to exists but psychological thinking and other aspects of “speak thinking” stops, like when you want to spin an idea in your head or figure out something, kind of thinking all stops. So in this silence another mind takes over and what I am suggesting is that in silence you now have access to the Absolute or Cosmic-Mind. The thinking now is a kind of streaming of facts as there are no wrongs or non-facts in the repository of the absolute, hence you don’t need to think things out and hence conflict in mind disappears. So can you see that now the mind settles into a kind of silent space, a paradise of sorts, where all is True. The mind and body stops being chaotic and yet there is still a sense of active “beingness” where the mind is still working but you just don’t have to figure things out. There is this preconception is some quarters that nothingness descends on you and you then live like a Zombie. The other Cosmic-mind is still at work and working off its repository of facts. But the gem in all of this is the discovery of “speak thinking”. Siri Perera’s answer to What is “speak thinking”? You will discover that knowing about “speak thinking” and feeling it and realizing it, that you are silently speaking what you are thinking to have to think at all – you can use this realization to break that link between thinking and sub-vocal speech and you can do this anytime, using it as a mantra as in cross-legged meditation. This means you don’t need to sit in a corner in a room to be silent in mind anymore – break that link between sub-vocal speech and thinking and you can be silent anytime anywhere even while you are body active.

Hence it seems that within your present structure of the working of your mind there are latent powers in us that can still be discovered if we find in the puzzle of the mind new discoveries and new ways of using IT and in this case to find the magic in you from what emerges by just settling the shifting sands of the body-mind. Be silent in body-mind. Speak-Thinking.

The body-mind is noisy and disordered and has its limitations in being linked to only the past in you (but still has its everyday uses) and when you quieten the body-mind and in its ensuing silence a new mind emerges that is all knowing.

One can naturally shuffle between these 2 states to increase the percentage use of a normal persons mind.