Colleen Mauro - Spiritual Telepathy: Ancient Techniques to Access the Wisdom of Your Soul

T his is a book about the hidden potential of the human mind. In this book, I will introduce you to ancient mind-training techniques that will allow you to access the wisdom and guidance of your own soul.

These techniques come from a body of knowledge called the Ageless Wisdom. These teachings, also known as the esotericor mysteryteachings, have been described as mankinds most sacred treasure...the knowledge which will allow us to access the powers that [lie] dormant in the human mind. Once taught in the ancient mystery schools of Egypt, Greece, Babylon, and India, these teachings were first put into book form by the Hindu sage Patanjali, author of The Yoga Sutras.

In this classic book, Patanjali taught a system of mind control called raja yoga, which focused on the higher potential of the mind. Patanjali taught that the mind has two levelsthe lower or rational mind and the higher or intuitive mind. The soul, our gateway to the higher worlds, is the link between our higher and lower minds. When we train the lower mind to make contact with the soul, the soul transmits information from the higher mind to our brains. We then have direct access to the subtle worlds where information on all subjects can be found.

When we build our bridge between the lower mind and the soul, we become pioneers in the next stage of human developmentthe soul-aligned human being. The soul-aligned human has a mind trained to see in two directions: outward into the physical world or upward into the subtle worlds of spirit. A new level of awareness becomes possible as our focus shifts from the physical to the subtle planes. We find our place within the greater whole and experience the oneness of all life. We move from the personal to the universal, from me to we.

The catastrophic problems we face today are speeding up the usual slow pace of evolution and calling forth this expansion in human consciousness. With our social and ecological systems in crisis, our very survival is dependent on our ability to shift from self-interest to serving the greater good of the entire human family.

When we build our bridge to the soul, we become part of a growing army of practical mystics; our feet are on the ground, but our minds are trained to access the subtle realms, where higher levels of wisdom and knowledge can be found. At this time of upheaval and change, we need access to these higher sources of wisdom and guidance as never before. As Albert Einstein famously said, the problems in our world cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. The catastrophic problems we face today require a higher level of wisdom and insight.

When we make contact with the soul, our life purpose, our service to humanity, becomes clear. Each of us has a task, a contribution to make to the world, and, at this critical period, we are all urgently needed. As I will show you in this book, our most celebrated creative thinkersthose people we call geniuses or visionarieshave all had the ability to access the higher worlds. But its not just the famous; I will also introduce you to ordinary people who have gained access to that universal wellspring of creativity and inspirationpeople who are living a life of spiritual purpose and service.

Since the information we receive from the subtle worlds, on all levels, is always telepathic, this experience is called spiritual telepathy. It was an experience of spiritual telepathy that led to the launch of Intuition magazine in the late 1980s. In 1988, after working in alternative magazine publishing for several years, I was between jobs and pondering my next move. I was living in San Francisco, which at that time was not known as a place to pursue a career in magazine publishing. Since most of the publishing jobs were in Los Angeles, New York, or Boston, I was lucky to have found three back-to-back jobs in the Bay Area. But now, with no job offers in sight, my luck seemed to be running out.