Are You Truly Powerful or do You Just Have a Strong

Personality
Many times I have heard someone comment in a conversation that a particular
person is really powerful. This statement used to intrigue me. Was this person
seeing more than me about this particular person in this instance, or were we as
individuals, perceiving different things about the person in question.

I came to realise that the comment that someone was really powerful was stated
by a person with a weaker sense of self than the person they were commenting
upon. What they were seeing was that the person in question had a strong sense
of self as well as a vibrant level of vitality.

So, in the big picture of things, what really makes a person powerful? In the
spheres of activity that include chi gung, energy healing, witch-craft, yoga and
self actualisation I would describe as a powerful person someone who embodied
the following list of skills.

Has the person resolved the hurts, issues and conflicts from their past?

Does the person be present most of the time?

By this I don’t mean the new age version of presentness where the person is
energetically stuck in their head, in a form of positive hyper-vigilance.

Do they know why they do things most of the time?

Does the person have intellectual and perceptual rigor?

Is the person world focussed and locally active rather than self-important or self-
absorbed

Are they connected with themselves and the world and people around them?

Does the person have a depth of personal integrity and strength of character?

Do they practice what they preach?

Do they have daily self-discipline?

Do they change the lives of people around them without much effort, just
because they are such a good example to follow?

Can they actually heal people, ie, remove the signs and symptoms of illness, and
perhaps even renew a weakened person’s constitution?

Can they exorcise spirit possessions from people, animals and places?

Can they break curses and spells that have been professionally placed upon and
within someone?
Can they discern and remove ancestral trouble-makers?

When they invoke a diety, archetype or other kind of spiritual Being, is there a
palpable change in the ritual or work space that everyone can feel without
prompting or hinting?

Is their theoretical knowledge accurate and testable?

Do their mantras and prayers have an immediate and measurable effect upon
someone’s body-mind?

Many people seem to have the erroneous idea that just by thinking, listening or
reading about something is actually the same as really learning and mastering
something.

Few people ever really master something and the majority of people who claim
some kind of master degree are confusing cynical self-promotion with an actual
and testable body of knowledge.

It disappoints me that the ones who have a need to be seen as spiritual leaders
are rarely anything but cynical self-promoters. People who really have something
tangible to offer have a mature tendency to downplay themselves. If you have
kids, you know and they know that it is all about them, but you would expect
grownups to mature beyond this excessive need to be special.

No one can show you God or give you a quick and easy enlightenment or
introduce you the make-believe spiritual hierarchs of other galaxies, or the great
white brotherhood (where have the sisters gone) or ascended masters (how come
these ascended ones all have the same pompous tone).

When I meet peddlers of spurious information I say either one or two things to
them. The first thing I might say is “show me, right here, right now” and no one
is able to produce on the spot the product they are dishonestly peddling. The
other tactic I use is asking three questions, although no one gets beyond the
first. For example, if some claims that their guide or channelled whatever has any
kind of secret or specific knowledge I will test the claim with an intelligent
question. This works every time and the peddler either slinks away in
embarrassment or goes into a stuttering denial of their inability to deliver.

Cheap spirituality is always a head-trip about something easy to believe in, and
with no emphasis on having a strong and good character, self-discipline and
testable explanations and skills.

There is great truth in the old adage:

“Those who know keep silent”.

And why do they keep silent? Because they have outgrown any neurotic need for
being the centre of attention and the making of easy, dishonest money from the
gullible.

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