Puppet theater craftsmen in Sierra Mixe, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo: Nacho López (1980)
"We have the power in us to create a thought-form or pattern. It can come by repetition or be entirely created in our inner vision. The important case is when we create an image and project it into the future. The ability to be connected with the future is something that we have to work at. Many of you have found that when you project an image into the future, it seems that the material situation adapts itself to you and things work out by themselves. It is not really that things have adapted to you, but that something in you has made a connection with what is really possible at a given moment in the future. Some people have that capacity developed in them and they have surprising achievements. Usually, they end by spoiling it. They start to think they are doing something and making something happen, whereas, they are really in a kind of clairvoyant connection with the pattern of the future.
Anyone who has studied Napoleon’s campaigns will know how he was able to see what would happen in a battle and how he would wait for that moment and take advantage of it when it did happen. Then he lost this capacity and everything went wrong for him. His own picture of himself took the place of this simple perceptiveness. This has happened with more than one successful person. It very seldom happens that people who acquire this power accidentally are able to keep the right attitude towards it. They don’t recognise that it is not their own doing and has nothing to do with their being or quality. For the man who is looked upon as someone who can achieve what he sets out to do, it is extraordinarily hard to maintain the awareness that he simply has the capacity to read the course of events and adapt himself to them, not to influence them.”
~ J.G Bennett, 'The Way to be Free'
"... fear can become an organ of true clairvoyance..."
~ Gurdjieff, 'Views From The Real World'
