How Can Acupuncture Make You More Telepathic?
As a practitioner of an ancient medicine that believes there are mysterious pathways of conscious information that flow undetected throughout the body, it is not much of a jump in reasoning for me to believe that there are pathways of conscious information that flow outside of the body as well. In fact, this idea is the very basis of much of ancient Taoist philosophy, and it is known as Qi.
Qi can be translated in many different ways but one that I often find useful is ‘vibrational waves of information’. If we use this as our definition, then we are clearly awash in a sea of Qi. Everything that we experience comes to us in the form of some come kind of vibration, be it light hitting our retinas or sound waves being detected by our ears. We are continually interpreting the world around us by deciphering and making sense of these different vibrations. However, the human experience of reality occurs in quite a narrow bandwidth of the full scale of frequencies that exist out there. For example, the human ear can pick up vibrations typically ranging from 20Htz to 20,000Htz but there are many sounds outside of that range that we can’t hear. And the same applies to our vision and other senses. Could it be that those who have so-called telepathic or psychic abilities are just picking up a slightly different bandwidth?
The non-verbal and autistic children and young adults from the podcast ‘The Telepathy Tapes’ that I have written about recently would certainly think so. They have demonstrated uncanny abilities to communicate in ways that still defy scientific reason, but nonetheless it is still happening and on a daily basis. Since these non-verbals have begun to be able to tell us what is going on for them, it is apparent that they very rarely talk about their brains, but much more frequently about the heart. More often than not it is the person that they are closest to that they are able to communicate telepathically with most effectively and love seems to be the key for them. It is via the heart that these phenomena take place.
This is somewhat similar to Chinese medical theory in that the brain is rarely talked about, and the Heart is all-important. The Heart, not the brain is seen to be where the spirit resides, and it is known as the emperor of the body. So important is the Heart that it has two acupuncture meridians through which it can be treated, whereas the brain doesn’t really have one of its own at all. The brain therefore is often just seen as some kind of radio receiver (or possible transmitter), whereas it is the Heart that tunes us in to our desired station. Another theory of Taoism that fits in with this is that there are seen to be two ‘minds’ that exist within the Heart. The first is the congenital mind, the one that we are born with, and the second, the acquired mind, is the result of every experience and interaction we have throughout our lives. We continually build these layers of the acquired mind around our congenital mind which forms our sense of self.
I would argue that our congenital mind is one that is already telepathic. It is the part of ourselves that is closest to the oneness of the Tao and is yet to be encumbered by structures and limitations. It is yet to have belief systems imposed upon it that restrict its limitless potential. We were all at one point born non-verbal and it was only after years of people speaking around us that most of us learned how to do it. It would seem that many of those who never learned how to speak have never lost this telepathic ability.
So what of acupuncture then? Well in one sense the meridian system can be seen as a set of gutters that draw unwanted energetic detritus away from the Heart-mind. Emotions, traumas and strong experiences need to be kept away from the Spirit to keep it safe, so they are funnelled out through the channels. In a way opening and clearing the meridians with acupuncture can be seen as shedding unwanted layers of the acquired mind so that the original, congenital, closer to the Tao mind can be revealed. Acupuncture therefore has the ability to help us reconnect with our true and higher selves. So in answer to the question ‘How can acupuncture make you more telepathic?’, one might answer – ‘How can it not?’