Destiny and dynasty

I believe that every person has a talent which can be put to good use. The problem, of course, is to identify your particular talent and make the best of it. PSI-FORCE can help you in this respect, and later in this chapter I will tell you how.
But first let me assure you that no one should ever lose hope or be demoralised if their present circumstances are such that they seem trapped and incapable of moving forwards. Furthermore, don't think that just because you weren't born with that silver spoon in your mouth, you have missed out. I am a believer in fate, but at the same time I also believe that fate and destiny are interlinked and that you can help to direct your destiny.
Take nature as an example: Why do you think a queen bee is special? Is it hereditary? No, all the larvae produced in a hive are the same. The young pupae which develop into queen bees are different because they are fed a diet of royal jelly in special cells and were it not for this they would be the same as any of the worker bees. Now obviously we can't all be born princes, but we can develop special qualities just like the bees if we are trained properly and fed the right information to develop our dormant talents. Not everyone can be a genius or become super-skilled, but even a little improvement is better than none and the change you undergo with even a little improvement will give you confidence to do more. And remember that humans have an extra dimension, unlike insects or animals. They have a choice. We can influence our destiny. We have the choice to be special.
So if you were not born into a happy dynasty, you can make it your destiny to be happy and perhaps even become privileged through developing your skills. After all, it can be far more fulfilling to know that you have made it on your own and not through accident of birth. I also want to assure you that if you are successful at creating your own destiny, then it is very likely that you will rub noses with the 'dynasty set' anyway. Who would have thought that someone from my humble background would one day attend parties thrown for princes? I do not say this to boast but only to illustrate the point that it can be done. And that all it takes is that extra knowledge, its application, and an open and receptive mind.
In other words, look on PSI-FORCE as another acquired skill. Then, if you maximise the benefits it has to offer, you will surely be head and shoulders above others who have not taken advantage of it.
And don't be frightened to discuss your PSI skills and interests with other people. Don't worry if they think you are a little strange or weird; that kind of comment is often passed about some of the most successful and distinguished people. I can also assure you that the most prestigious dynasty in the world, the Royal House of Windsor, has among its most prominent members a very strong belief in PSI. In fact, I will go so far as to say that the next King of England, if he is not already a practising spiritualist, has dabbled in spiritualism despite the adverse publicity given to his unorthodox views on life.
Prince Charles is a very spiritual person with an extremely open and receptive mind. He is willing to explore unconventional avenues despite his most conventional position in public life. The Prince's willingness to embrace new ideas and accept cosmic forces means that he would be a very good candidate to perform feats like metal bending and telepathy.
Prince Charles believes in the search for happiness and tranquillity through the inner self. When he spoke to Canadian lumberjacks and local business people in May 1986, his words were quoted around the world. He told a crowd of thousands in the heart of British Columbia: 'I rather feel that deep in the soul of mankind there is a reflection as on the surface of a mirror, of a mirror-calm lake, of the beauty and harmony of the universe. But so often that reflection is obscured and ruffled by unaccountable storms. So much depends, I think, on how each one of us is introduced to and is made aware of that reflection within us. I believe we have a duty to our children to try to develop this awareness, for it seems to me that it is only through the outer manifestation of that reflection, that we can ever hope to attain the kind of peace in this world for which we yearn. We must try if we can to make living into an art itself although it will always remain a tremendous struggle.'
Prince Charles is known to have been greatly influenced by Sir Laurens van der Post. Sir Laurens, an octogenarian, and the young heir to the throne, have a deep mystical relationship. It is like a rich, grandfather-grandson relationship and extraordinarily important to both; especially to Charles after IRA terrorists savagely murdered his beloved 'uncle', the elder statesman, Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Sir Laurens, a South African writer and philosopher, lives in London. Pictures of the Prince and paintings by him abound in the old man's apartment. Sir Laurens is a man with a keen interest in Eastern religions, particularly Buddhism; and not only that, but physics and psychology are also their meeting point. Of his disciple the Prince, the guru says that Charles thinks for himself and doesn't need his 'master' to show him the way.
Charles, says Sir Laurens, has the Greek idea of being a whole man. And the great thing is that the Prince of Wales is a searcher, looking for answers still far from clear to man. Indeed, the spiritual self is not the Prince's only interest. He is also a great believer in alternative medicine and in faith healing, a subject he discussed at length with Dr Mervyn Stockwood, the former Bishop of a London diocese. He met the bishop through his second cousin, Princess Alexandra, whose husband, Angus Ogilvy, often consulted faith healers because of a painful back ailment.
The Prince is not concerned with what others think of his views. He has said: 'People often remain silent about what they really think in case everyone should think they are mad. But when someone in my position says, "I think there is something in that," many people who have remained silent admit to feeling the same way.'
He also said: 'We are a left brain society. We concentrate on organising the denial of the intuitive right half of the brain. To me it is very interesting to see how primitive societies are the whole time subconsciously far more aware of their instinctive relationship with people and things around them than we are in the so-called civilised world. I believe instinct, sensitivity, call it what you will, is enormously important.'
Perhaps we should all take a leaf out of his book. For it was also Prince Charles who upset the British Medical Association by challenging them to discover alternative medicine and begging them to keep an open mind to the unconventional. In 1982 he told their distinguished gathering: 'One of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies is the deeply ingrained suspicion and downright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox. I suppose it is inevitable that something which is different should arouse strong feelings on the part of the majority whose conventional wisdom is being challenged. I suppose too, that human nature is such that we are frequently prevented from seeing that what is taken for today's unorthodoxy is probably going to be tomorrow's convention.'
Without a doubt, PSI has got the royal seal of approval! There have been constant reports that Prince Charles has tried through spiritual means to contact his favourite uncle, Lord Dickie Mountbatten, who himself had been interested in PSI, as indeed have many other members of the British royal family. The Queen has been to spiritual healers and the family history has recorded many incidents involving psychic phenomena. Queen Victoria apparently held seances in Buckingham Palace and contacted her dear departed husband Albert through a Scottish medium called John Brown. The Queen Mother later followed suit and contacted her dead husband King George VI through Lillian Bailey, a well-known medium. Ghosts have been seen on many occasions and there have been many instances of clairvoyance and telepathy.
The Queen is a very religious person and a strong believer in cosmic order and destiny. Because of her strong dynastic feelings she feels it is her duty to continue as monarch rather than hand over to her eldest son.
Prince Charles will not wear the mantle of king lightly but he will wear it with profound honesty and humanity. And the reason for this is the spiritual man within him. He is sincere and caring and in another life it is quite conceivable that he would have fully immersed himself in the pursuit of PSI research or have been a spiritualist or a faith healer of great repute. I sense in him a special aura that could be developed to a great degree. He believes in the power of PSI-FORCE and wants to use it for the greater public good. He wants to see his subjects help themselves through an inner belief in their own powers. That is why he is so concerned with community projects around Britain and the world. He does not believe money alone will solve people's problems but that they have to learn to respect their own inner forces and utilise these forces for their benefit. And even though he has through birth achieved what most people could only dream of having, he is intent on developing his PSI powers to find an inner happiness just like any one of us.
But I also believe that he will use PSI power when he becomes king and that he will be an extremely popular and much loved monarch as a result. Many of his decisions will not be made without reference to his psychic self. He will try and use precognition, telepathy, and psychic projection, all of which he is still developing and will continue to develop throughout his life.
Charles has a refreshing, open mind. Cautiously, in an interview with Sir Alistair Burnett of Britain's Independent Television News, the Prince remarked: 'I am not interested in the occult, or dabbling in black magic or any of these kind of things or, for that matter, strange forms of mysticism. But,' he declared, 'I am purely interested in being open-minded.' And indeed he is. For I know of a secret meeting which Charles had at his home in Kensington Palace with a leading British scientist. Fascinated, the Prince discussed metal bending and was shown spoons bent by children.
Those glamorous young royals, the Duke and Duchess of York also have a great interest in PSI. Before their wedding, I was invited to a party in London at which they were guests of honour and word was passed to me that Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson would love to meet me. Without further ado, the royal couple were steered in my direction and we were introduced. I immediately sensed that Prince Andrew wanted to see me do something with my powers and I asked the Prince "Would you like me to bend a spoon for you?"
Andrew said he would be delighted to watch me do just that and hauled Sarah to his side to make sure she did not miss the event.
I did not want to steal the limelight at the party so I asked if we could do it away from the main body of those present. David Frost, who had organised the evening, took us into his kitchen and gave me one of the family's silver spoons. Although they were both smiling, neither Andrew nor Sarah could take their eyes off my fingers as I gently stroked the spoon and willed it to bend. They were not disappointed. Once the spoon began bending it did not stop. It even continued bending when I gave it to Sarah to hold. Prince Andrew then took it from her and waved it around at the party to show everybody what had happened.
Later, as a wedding gift, I sent the couple a silver spoon given to my son Daniel when he was born. As such, it was a very special gift. It also had further significance in as much as I bent the spoon at the very precise second that Andrew slipped the wedding ring on to Sarah's finger. Obviously it meant something to the Duke and Duchess as well, because some weeks later I received a letter from Buckingham Palace dated August 11, 1986. It said: 'Dear Uri, we were absolutely delighted to receive your wedding gift of the silver spoon bent on our wedding day. It is very kind of you to send us such a lovely present, which will be greatly treasured, and we much appreciate your good wishes at this very happy time. Yours sincerely, Andrew and Sarah.'
I sometimes wonder if the royal family receives an added PSI boost through their ability to fly aeroplanes. Experiments have been conducted to show that fighter pilots have a highly developed sense of ESP. Despite the technological advances in aeronautics, you have still to rely on intuition and feeling when flying. Your senses are trained to be more alert than they would be otherwise. Combat pilots have often spoken about feeling the presence of the enemy before actually seeing them.
But there is another aspect, a more metaphysical one that can pervade your mind when flying in a twilight zone. I can assure you, if you have not already experienced it, that it can be a most edifying and humbling experience. The might of the universe suddenly makes its magnificent presence felt. New horizons are opened and if you allow your feelings to take over, you can imagine that you are part of the universe, riding along on an astral path. Try it sometime when you next go on a foreign trip or holiday and you are flying in a semi-light or on a very starry night. Look out of the window and imagine you are far from planet earth. You will be amazed at the clarity of your mind and the different approach you use in questioning your very being in this expanded universe to which you now belong. Try it when you get back to earth too. Do it by standing alone in an empty field at night and watch the stars and universe. That will very quickly and effectively put you in touch with the cosmos. It is also a marvellous way to relax all your senses. And it is bound to help you review your current lifestyle by giving you a better or different perspective of yourself.
I can never stress strongly enough the importance of PSI and I hope from having read the above you will agree that if there was nothing in it then the most important family in the world would not bother pursuing it. Why should they? Haven't they got everything? Money, breeding, they are at the pinnacle of society, they have a lifestyle which millions envy. Nevertheless, they do pursue it because it is a gift that must be developed and which you have as much access to as they do! After all, they still have to make constant decisions in their life. They are still prone to the same illnesses as other people and they can still be unhappy and depressed, no matter what their breeding.
The psychic mirror
How do you see yourself? How often do you sit back and take a long hard look at you? A useful exercise which I recommend to everyone who wants to learn more about their PSI, is the mirror exercise. Make sure you are alone in the room, perform a few simple exercises to help you relax, and then take a long look at yourself in the mirror, possibly a full-length one. Scan your whole body from top to toe and then concentrate on your face. Look at your forehead, your eyes, your nose and mouth and chin. After a while, it may seem to you that you are looking at a stranger. That's good. That is how you should look at yourself. Now try and determine how you feel about that stranger. What do you like or dislike about the person you are looking at? What can you see behind the physical mask? Can you read anything into those eyes? What colour are they? What colour is the hair? Really dissect the face you see in front of you. Now take a notebook and sit down and list everything you feel and see. What about the clothes? Do you like them? It does not matter in what order you list your impressions but make sure that you list both what you see and what you feel about the image in front of you. I guarantee that you will be surprised by the amount of 'feeling' you get from this image.
When you have finished writing,, return once more to the mirror and ask yourself if what you have surmised about the reflected you is likely to be the same impression others have. Look at yourself and try and imagine that you are now one of your close friends looking at you. What vibes are you getting? What do you feel about the general appearance of the person in front of you? Again, I want you to write down all these feelings. Perhaps even record them on to a tape recorder and afterwards transcribe them. This is an important process in self discovery and realisation. You are letting your PSI do much of the work for you without even realising it until you see the results.
But you must also be positive. It is no good saying 'I hate what I see'; try and see the good points as well as the bad points. Remember the ultimate aim is to improve yourself and to be happier living with and understanding yourself and your motivations. Play out different roles in front of the mirror. Put on make-up, wash your hair and imagine you have just played a part in a film and are being interviewed on television. You want to come across to the public so you are putting your best side forward.
Another mirror exercise can usefully be done with a friend. Explain to your friend or partner that you are trying to assess yourself and that part of the exercise involves seeing yourself as others see you. Convince him or her that it would be a good idea to do the same so you can exchange notes. But don't tell each other before you do the mirror test what you feel about each other. Get your friend to write down the impressions he or she gets of you, and you do exactly the same. But don't tell each other what they are. Then when you have both completed the exercise, compare notes. Be brutally frank with each other and you are bound to discover things you never imagined about yourself.
You can also perform PSI tests together. Tell your partner or friend to think about the strongest impression that comes to mind about you. See if you can guess what he or she is thinking. Ask them to picture in their minds a colour and see if you can name it. I will go further into PSI tests and exercises you can perform in the next chapter but it will be helpful to get into practise as soon as possible.
I often play 'guessing games' with my brother-in-law, Shipi. If, for instance, we are on a motorway, we will see who can correctly predict the number of red cars which will pass us in the next ten minutes. Alternatively we will try and predict the make of cars we will see during a space of ten or fifteen minutes. These are simple games but they all help to sharpen your PSI senses and it is fun doing them with someone you like.
But the mirror test is important. It is the beginning of the road which will take you along the path of PSI realisation and fulfilment. And the first step is to know all about your physical self and your PSI-self. Ask yourself the following questions:
1. Are you generally happy?
2. If not, what do you think is the reason?
3. Is there anything that could be done about it?
4. Are you doing what you really want to do?
5. Would you rather have another job?
6. Is it possible to get another job?
7. Are you religious or do you have basic beliefs?
8. How strong are those beliefs?
9. What is your attitude to family, to friends, to work?
10. Are you ambitious?
11. Do you have a satisfactory sex life?
12. Do you get on with people of other races?
13. Do you have high or low self esteem?
14. What do you think others think of you?
15. How could you improve your situation, if at all?
16. Are you happy with your appearance?
17. Could you improve your looks?
18. If you could be someone else who would you most like to be?
19. If you believed in reincarnation, what would you like to come back as?
20. What is your favourite animal?
21. Who do you think has influenced you more than anyone else?
22. Given the chance, would you like your life to have been different?
23. Do you think you have been hard done by in life?
24. Do you think that with positive thought you could overcome your disadvantages?
25. What do you consider to be your strengths?
26. What are your weaknesses?
27. How could you improve on them?
28. What natural talents do you think you have?
29. Could you improve your health in any way?
30. How would you describe yourself in an objective report?
Having thought about the above questions, determine for yourself if your personality type is outgoing, sociable and generally happy (extrovert) or whether you tend to be more repressed and withdrawn (introverted). Generally speaking, extrovert types are likely to be more adventurous in their life, and that includes being positive to PSI. Nevertheless, if you are introverted you can still be successful at using PSI-FORCE, providing you have a positive belief and an open mind.
Your secret chamber
Three very important ingredients of PSI-FORCE are physical exercise, relaxation, and concentration. All three factors are inter-dependent and you must try and practise all three daily, even if only for a very short time. For instance, if you have enjoyed hard physical exercise, the pleasure of relaxation will be accentuated with a good resultant effect on your mind. Concentration is then also enhanced. When first learning to concentrate, it is very important for you to be totally relaxed and there are several ways of doing this. Basically, adopt whatever physical position you find to be the most comfortable and relaxed. It could be a cushion on the floor, or lying in bed or seated in a comfortable armchair. Totally relax your body. Relax your arms, your legs, your feet. Take deep breaths and relax each muscle of each limb in turn, relax your neck and head. Tell yourself to relax each part of your body from the top of your head down to your toes, taking deep even breaths while you are doing it. While practising this make sure you are not in a bath or swimming pool in case you are too efficient at relaxing and fall asleep.
Next you must learn to shut doors on unnecessary and time consuming thoughts which can interfere with PSI energy. That means if you have niggling fears about unfinished business, or you are worrying about unpaid bills or you've had a quarrel with your partner, then your mind is not free either to concentrate on a particular aspect or alternatively to purposefully wander and explore new horizons. So what you must do is consciously say to yourself: 'I am shutting the door in my mind to all these small problems. For the moment they do not exist. I will deal with them tomorrow. I will put them in a file and close that file until I am ready.' Try it. Not only will you be able to concentrate on using your PSI powers but it will also help you sleep at night. A good night's sleep seems to sort out much of the anxiety you might have felt the evening before. You wake up refreshed and in a much fitter state to face the world. Or perhaps, by not succumbing to the problems, you have allowed your PSI to take over and it has solved the problem for you!
Another way in which you can eliminate outside worries is to concentrate on a particular object, say a flower or a medallion. Whatever it is you choose, put all your powers of concentration into that object and dismiss everything else from your mind. By concentrating on that object you do not have to think deeply about it or what it might represent. Imagine there is a television screen in your mind. Blank the screen completely and then fill it with that object. Then press the 'hold' button and transfix the image. Now concentrate on that image for several minutes before relaxing. Do this exercise several times until you have mastered the technique.
Later, you can allow other images to enter your mind which are related to the flower or medallion. Because by concentrating on a particular object you can accept other thoughts into your PSI consciousness which have been influenced by the object you are concentrating on. This will in turn prepare you for ESP and telepathy.
Many people do not realise how frequently they use this type of PSI concentration. I know of a number of friends who never need an alarm clock to wake them up no matter what time they wish to rise. Without realising it they have used their PSI alarm to wake them. The way they do it is quite simple. Before going to sleep at night, they tell themselves to wake up at a given hour and somehow their psychic clock is accurate to the second. Try it and see if it works. One of my friends who found it worked only sporadically for him changed his command structure. Instead of just telling himself to wake up at a certain hour, he taps his head on the pillow a set number of times to correspond with the hour he wants to wake. So if he wants to get up at five in the morning he will tap his head on the pillow five times. He's even worked out a system with light taps for parts of the hour. Whatever method you use, be assured it will work for you if you have faith in it.
Just as you can instruct your mind to wake you at a certain point in time, so too can you tell your subconscious to solve a problem while you sleep. That is a means of getting your subconscious or more accurately, your PSI-conscious to work for you. Try it now. Tell yourself that you will solve a particular problem without worrying about it and see what happens. I am sure it will work for you as it worked for me.
It is very important for you to continue assessing yourself as I have outlined and also to objectively see yourself as others see you. As you become more proficient at 'reading' yourself, you will find that you can begin to read and learn about other people just by hearing them talk and seeing their actions (body language). After all, you will find many similarities with yourself and you will be able to compare the reasons for their actions with conclusions you have already drawn from your own behaviour. What you will eventually be doing is sharpening up your 'sixth' sense - your ESP - when evaluating friends and colleagues and strangers. Whether you are buying a car, selling one, purchasing a house, being interviewed for a job, you will find the application of this power of great benefit to you.
I would also now like you to keep a special diary. Call it a PSI diary if you like. Record all the interesting things that happen to you and for which there is no apparent explanation. Eventually, you will see a pattern forming and you will find an explanation for what has taken place. But for the moment, you are still a learner so be content with just recording everything. Record your dreams. Do you dream in colour or in black and white? Do you have many dreams? Can you remember them well? Keep the diary beside your bed and if you wake up at an unsociable hour because of a dream, record it as quickly as possible. Dreams are often forgotten in a flash.
Write down all the times that you feel a psychic event has taken place in your presence. Record the times you were going to say the same thing as another person at exactly the same moment. Record your deja vu experiences and the times you ran into someone you had been thinking about. If coincidences or synchronicities crop up with a particular person, you may well have a telepathic companion. In that case, start experimenting with that person. See if you can tell what each of you is thinking. Compare your choice of colours, try moving objects together. See if that person is your personality type. By working together you will heighten each other's PSI powers. Each week, add up all the strange occurrences that have taken place and record the ones that happen most frequently. That will give some clue as to where your present PSI strengths are and you can work on improving your powers. Other powers that are dormant in you may crop up only very occasionally, if at all. Don't lose heart. Work on them. Be aware they exist. Think about them. It will bring them to life.
Astrology and PSI
I am often asked if I believe in astrology and whether it is compatible with PSI. As I have said throughout this book, I have a completely open mind towards all phenomena and that includes astrology. I do believe our star signs determine part of our characters and our future and I also believe astrology can complement PSI. You may find that someone who is of the same astrological birth sign as you has many things in common and you could develop an instant rapport with that person, bringing you on to the same psychic plane. I know many people who can instantly predict the star sign of a particular person through ESP. Remember that PSI and astrology are strongly interlinked in our cosmic world.
The famous German publisher, Axel Springer, who made millions from his newspaper empire, would not make major decisions without reference to his stars. He was an avid believer in the power of PSI.