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Most spiritual books hand you a ladder. Practise this, avoid that, sit for this long, and one day you will climb out of your restlessness into something better. The Ashtavakra Gita does something far more unsettling. It kicks the ladder away and tells you that you were never down in the pit to begin with.
Plenty of people want to switch on a sixth sense. Few stop to ask what happens if it switches on and then refuses to switch off. Dr Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has spent decades running controlled experiments on telepathy, presentiment and remote viewing. Yet when someone asks him how to become more psychic, his usual reply is a question: are you sure you want that...
You have asked for a sign. You have sat quietly, whispered your question into the dark, and waited. Nothing came back. No feather, no number sequence, no voice, just the hum of the fridge and your own thoughts circling the same worries...
Almost every serious meditator carries a quiet question they rarely say out loud. If the hours keep adding up, if the retreats keep coming, if the streak never breaks, will awakening eventually arrive? It is an understandable hope. Meditation is sold as a path, and paths are supposed to lead somewhere. Put in the distance and you reach the destination...
Ask ten developing mediums what sitting in the power is and you will likely hear ten different answers, several of them vague. Some will call it a type of meditation. Others will describe it as "opening up." It is one of those terms passed around development circles far more often than it is actually explained.
Most of us carry a small private collection of moments we never quite explained. The shiver that crossed the shoulders at a graveside. The song that came on in the car at exactly the right moment. The friend who phoned an hour after we dreamed about them. We usually file these under coincidence, partly because it is the polite thing to do and partly because nobody ever handed us another folder to put them in...
Ask a hundred people who have clinically died and come back what they found on the other side, and you will not get one story. You will get at least three.
Some films entertain you for an evening. Others follow you around for weeks. Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret belongs firmly in the second group. It asks a question so simple that most of us have never thought to ask it, and then it refuses to let us look away from the answer.
Almost everyone who has lost someone has done it. A few quiet words at a graveside, a name spoken into the dark before sleep, a silent "I hope you're at peace" while washing the dishes. Most of us do it without deciding to, and most of us wonder afterwards whether anything we said actually went anywhere.
For most of my adult life, anyone who spoke openly about non-human intelligence risked being quietly filed under "crank". That changed on 26 July 2023, when a former intelligence officer testified before a US House oversight subcommittee and, under oath, described what he had been told about a decades-long crash retrieval programme...
