JohnD » 13 Sep 2020, 19:59 wrote:In meditation a person removes oneself from objective existence so all that is left is self and self is without opinion. Of course it has to be practiced.
To be centered doesn't mean to be located. To think spatially is to look outward from oneself in all directions and to be centered within your environment.
oh thats what you meant, hmmm
Thats a romanticists poetic explanation of what Tesla was able to do. I have a similar ability, which I now take medication for. Basically, I see solutions to problems that frustrate me. While they will solve the current problem, they often create others. I talk a bit about my ability to lucid day dream in a Lucid Dreaming thread a few years ago. Back then, I thought it was something I could teach, but it turns out its a mental disability. I literally see solutions with my own two eyes in such great detail, that I can not tell if its real or not. I have to look a few seconds later to double check.
One example is when my wife was having a mental breakdown, I didn't know what to do. I put my fist through the door(resolving my frustration).. Only when I looked at the door a second time, it wasn't broken. If I didn't look a second time, I would swear it really happened, it was that real. I literally have hundreds of these examples (unfortunately).
When I think of meditation, I think of sitting with your legs crossed and humming for hours... which wouldn't work. The easiest way to describe it, is one step before sleep. Maybe humming could get you there, but that never worked for me. The brain is just too busy, even when you think of nothing, you are actually thinking of something.
One of the easiest steps for me, is paying attention to my eyelids while I relax in bed. I don't see pitch black. I see a compressed mat of red and blue stars that form to make the colour black. Id relax enough to start mentally drawing dot to dot shapes with my imagination. Start out simple with circles and blobs, and at some point they start taking on various shapes. From here, they can quickly take on any object. At any point you can wake up and lose all visuals, or fall asleep and just dream. The trick is staying in between the wake and sleep transition.
I think Tesla had a similar ability, but with much more control. Its not some form of meditation, but more like an autistic disability. In the Lucid Dreaming thread, I talk about the extreme conditions I needed to get closer to controlling this ability.
The closest I got to control while wide awake, was being able to see streaks of plasma at will. I used them to show me the movements I needed to perform a perfect kata. eg. the third stike was a pivot left and step forward, while striking out with the right hand. Too much to remember for a beginner. Or, I could just follow a streak of plasma with my right hand, and my foot placement and positioning would naturally fall into place perfectly. Allowing me to perform the perfect strike while fully relaxed.
Even as a white belt, I was better than the blackbelts, but I was cheating. It would take about 5 or 6 dry runs of heavy imagination, before id finally get to see the plasma for real. I couldn't do it every day, at most 3 times in a day, about 2 days a week. But that was enough, because even the intense imagination on its own was a powerful learning tool. If I couldn't do it within 10 attempts then I knew I probably couldn't do it that day.
I stumbled on the plasma projections, because it was the easiest material object to manifest. Its opaque, so its not too hard to trick the brain that its there. But in the lucid day dreams I experienced under intense conditions, I could rotate literal 3d objects that were in HD quality. The only things more realistic, were my mini hallucinations when frustrated.
To think spatially is to think of all biases before forming an opinion.
Not an important component in my experience. Think of 3d modelling for a computer game. If you put a Ferrari on a race track, you don't need to test it in outer space, or on the lower gravity of the moon, unless those will be in your game. You don't need to consider fuel combustion or the cogs rotating in the engine etc. You only need to see it drive on a track, to understand all the necessary mechanics involved. The less you have to think about, the clearer the picture.
Thats a 3 sec test max. But if you start thinking outside the box in terms of thinking spatially, it becomes impossibly complicated. I would rephrase, to think spatially, is to consider the important controlling factors.
If Tesla had a similar ability and mastered it, then, he would have the ability to build a machine in the blink of an eye and test it faster than in real time. I wonder if he could do it at will, how often and for how long he could maintain the visuals. Being able to see how things work, without actually building them is not a genius talent. He was most likely a fraud and a cheat.