A year or two back, Tom Campbell’s ‘My Big TOE’ website highlighted a remarkable - ongoing - event in Germany: a group of children and low-teenies who were demonstrating something remarkable: the ability to learn how to see their surroundings clearly - by direct intuitive perception, without using their biological eyes - whilst having their eyes completely masked.
As parapsychologists are quite used to noting, this - truly astonishing, repeatedly-demonstrated - phenomenon made a brief local “oh look at that!” frisson - and then sank without trace; as usual…
I’ll come back to that strange, often-remarked response later, but first a precis of the phenomenon itself:
The German guy in the second vid below has been investigating these children’s ability. The two videos together give a good first idea of what’s happening; and - in the second video - the theoretical reasons why it’s happening are given in brief exposition.
Much more extensive study of Tom’s Big Theory Of Everything - website: ‘My-Big-TOE.com’ - (a strictly ‘physics’ theory, sprung from the still-persisting mysteries of quantum mechanics) broadens the ideas touched on here. But the essential idea to grasp is the we all get information-streams fed to us all the time directly to our minds, which we then interpret as coming through our five-or-so physical senses; and thus which are limited according to the learned limitations of that physical equipment (which is all virtual, anyway! Confused yet…? 
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Briefly touched on in the second vid is the all-important idea of strongly-learnt, and thus strongly-held, indoctrinated beliefs; and how they put artificial limitations on what we think we are able to perceive.
The essential idea that Tom is describing briefly in the vid is that all information is, in principle, available to us, once we have learned how to get free from the constraints of our deeply-ingrained belief systems. This, pretty obviously, is the whole basis of ESP: literally ALL information that’s held in the main data-base of Big Mind - aka the Akashic Records - is available, in principle, to the fully-liberated mind.
And remember that this ESP function is just one side of this unitary coin; the other being PK, literally ‘managing matter with the mind’. But that’s a whole other topic. Would-be Harry Potters should be aware: there are over-riding ethical - sic - reasons why that ability comes with some heavy restraints…
OK, now jump over to The Limits To Growth (this switchback presentation has some wildish leaps in it, hasn’t it…? ):
Recall that we now believe that the very great majority of our experience of life as a species was had over an extended period before this current ultra-brief moment of our history which has unfolded over the past few thousand years since the Agrarian Revolution: That was the major change (‘expulsion from the Garden of Eden’) which enabled the formation of mass, class-divided, highly-organised societies, with the free time and energy to develop physical technologies mightily, to the calamitously-engorged size that we have them today: the age of the dictatorship of the Technosphere egregore.
In all that much longer time before the invention of tillage agriculture, the way of life or hom-sap was closely analagous of that of chimps or gorillas: living in The Garden.
Things only changed mightily afterwards. And during that previous majority time, the chief wisdom-keeper, problem-solver and sickness/injury-healing work came through shamanic practitioners: those individuals who - like the children in the vid below - happen to have the natural human knack of direct perception of the Akashic Records, at will, rather well endowed.
When our technological prowess was about at the level of the Australian Aborigines’ culture before their first disastrous contacts with European invaders, the prowess of their shamans was recognised as paramount, and they lived accordingly: in everyday contact with the magical nature of reality.
Far fewer self-limiting belief systems learned and internalised during the first few years of life, by children growing up in that social ambiance! For them, as for the Native Americans, before and for a dwindling while after, the invasions of the Europeans, magic and miracles - thunderstorms to order, for example; knowing in advance which valley the caribou migration would come through this year, etc. - were commonplace works of their shamans. Any normally-gifted vocational shaman could do this stuff pretty well as needed. (As needed, note; not just on any old whim. And Big Mind always has an opinion on what we really need…)
But then we fell into the techie-techie blind alley where we’ve been these past ten or so millennia, founded on storable-grain agriculture and the population accretions which it enables. Bugger!
Yet we can foresee a renewal of this shamanic relationship with fundamental reality now coming up again in the near future. And that, of course, hinges on those non-negotiable Limits To Growth.
In accordance with the long-proven-reliable foreseeings first published by the Meadows team in 1972, the early part of this century is the time when The Limits make their presence known in ways which make them no longer deniable. We get our faces shoved into them, and - perforce - we adapt accordingly.
Without going into to much of an exposition, I’ll just say that within a century or two, I expect our current population-overshoot episode to have resolved itself spontaneously - without ‘benefit’ of eugenics! - and for there to be a lot fewer humankind on an Earth rapidly healing its previous ecological damage: turning back to The Garden; preferably with human regenerative-permaculture connivance.
I imagine that hitech industrial society will persist for as long as it can, but that this will shrink back into those regions of the Earth where the essential-commodity foundations of such a society are still available; not quite fully depleted yet. The likely candidate for last techie-techie soc. on Earth is Siberia, I suspect.
For the rest of us, our ways of life will, perforce, resurrect much simpler, more ecologically-harmonious methods, such as have been commonplace in the past, until recently. And in such societies, the shaman, the wise-woman-herbalist, the healers-and-seers will become again an essential part of human communities, as they have been previously for many thousands of years.
One last thought: Why does it happen that, when something as astonishing (and potentially paradigm-shifting) as masked-seeing springs up somewhere, it’s a brief nine-days-wonder - and only rather locally at that - and then it falls down the memory hole, like all its predecessor incidents?
This is a question which practical parapsychologists have been asking themselves for years. We still have no consensus explanation. All we can agree is that direct observation of unequivocally miraculous incidents seems to shake people up very deeply, veteran parapsychologists just as much as anyone else.
Witnessing unmistakably-miraculous psi-events really perturbs us!
Why exactly? Dunno. Lots of hypotheses; none finally adopted by general consent. It just does!
However - as I learned during my contacts with Ken Batcheldor, of sitter-group fame amongst parapsychologists - there’s always AATREC: ‘Acclimatisation And TRack rECord’: do your preferred magical-development practice assiduously, with patience, and things will start to happen; weird things! Stick with it, and you can get used to that first shock of close encounters with the paranormal; build a track record, and you learn all the subtle details of how to do it as a practical skill… How to be a shaman/wizzard/magician/sorceror, that is. How to get on advanced useful terms with the underlying nature of the reality we inhabit, in other words. Skills which will be needed, and indeed essential as they always have been, for our really-upcoming (not-star-trekky) Long Descended future.
