Excerpts:

Introduction
Charging the Mantra of Peace
The Body and the Soul
Table of Contents

Charging the mantra of peace

Before we can get to the next step, it will be important to learn how to clear the mind, and how to charge a mantra. It is essential to develop the habit to clear the mind before attempting any ESP experience. The human ego tends to send images to the diaphane (explained later), using our imagination. We have to learn how to reduce these interferences, but also to see thru them, in order to perceive the subtle nature of spiritual perception.

It is believed that this ESP training can be hard on your mind. In fact, it is your mind that will be hard on your training. We need to go beyond the limits where you mind will cooperate with the techniques. When we don't think for a while, the mind becomes agitated and wants attention. Lots of attention. It then does all it can to disturb your training, and make you lose your focus. The first technique aims at going beyond this mental limit, and training your mind into stillness.

The technique that we suggest to clear the mind is to do mantra recitation, while using a mala; a technique called japa, in Sanskrit. Although we suggest the use of a mala (Hindu or Buddhist prayer necklace), it is not an absolute requirement. Only, the use of a mala will make the training more efficient, and will also transform your mala into a "power item" while you train. You can find a 108 or 109 bead mala in most oriental stores. A Hindu mala has 109 beads, made out of rudraksha (plant) beads, and a Buddhist mala has 108 beads, made out of wood or stone. Using a mala to count your recitations will also be helpful in creating a power item that will help in clearing your mind each time you will wear it around your neck.

Hold the mala in your right hand and count with your thumb or major finger. Do not touch your mala with the index while reciting the mantra, because it would decharge the mala. The process would work within you, and the training would not be in vain at all, but you would not be creating a power item at the same time. This also means that if your mala ever breaks (hope not!) you don't lose all the mantra processes you have done, but you simply lose your power item. Store your mala in a place you consider private, or even better, a place you consider to be sacred. While it would not be dramatic, no one else than your self should touch your mala, to prevent the weakening of your power item.

In case you do not have a mala, we will also provide the recommended time of recitation. The more you recite the mantras, the more effect they have in your mind.

Sanskrit mantra to clear the mind:
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

Means: Divine Peace Peace Peace

Visualization: everything starts as light blue, fades softly, and eventually, no more visualization at all.

The mantra alone will have a soothing effect to calm your mind, but will not be as efficient until you "connect" to the consciousness it represents. When you first learn this technique, you should use the mantra intensively enough to break the mental limits of non-thought. You must recite the peace mantra for 9 malas or 45 minutes, each day for twelve straight days. We call this "connecting" the mantra. When you practice this technique intensively, you charge your soul with the energy and consciousness invoked by the mantra. Failure to do the 12 days in a row or to recite the appropriate number of malas will result in poor connection and less efficient effects for the remainder of the entire training. If you have difficulties being constant, here is the time to practice. If you miss one day, start the entire process from scratch. For your practice to count, you have to do your process once per 24 hour period, before the sun rises. (I remember coming back from a class, at 2:00 AM, and sitting down to make my japa of the day. I kept falling asleep, so I did it walking around in my meditation room to prevent myself from falling asleep.)

Chanting a mala means you chant 108 mantras. We do not count the 109th bead in the Hindu mala, that is used only once at the beginning to make a prayer, depending on your faith. It could be a prayer to your higher-self asking for more efficient ESP. Chanting 9 malas in a row (972 mantras) for twelve days in a row (11664 mantras) will make the mantra extremely efficient when afterwards you wish to use it for only a few minutes. Chant the mantras while visualizing everything as a clear blue sky. If thoughts come by, let them be softly, and try to pay attention only to the mantra and the clear blue light. It is possible that images NOT originating from your mind will come, but don't pay attention to those either; not yet. When you do japa (recite mantra using your mala) we must pay attention to the philosophical concept that the mantra represents. You may rock your body gently while charging your mantra.

Once you have connected to this mantra's consciousness, if your mind is going crazy or is too filled with thoughts, recite one mala, or 5 minutes of this mantra, while clearing your mind. It is recommended to do one mala of the mantra of peace before each one of your other training practices, except the techniques where you fall asleep.