What Is Personal Power?

Power is a force of pure potentiality. The source of creation has many aspects. One of its aspects is power. It doesn't have a quality; it doesn't have a description, yet everything comes forth from it. Power is very difficult to talk about. It’s not a thing, it’s not something you can put your finger on and say that this is what power is. Power is a force that acts behind the scenes, so we can only see effects of power. Just like we do not see the wind but we do see the leafs blowing and see the trees moving. Power is the force that is behind everything, it is the force but it is not something that is perceivable by the human eye or any of the five senses. We can sense power through the Sixth sense, our intuition. We might sense power in someone, as an example. But through our five senses, we can only perceive manifestations of power, not the actual force behind the scene, not that which brings the manifestations.nnAnd this is why as long as science remains basic, i.e. dealing only with the physical dimensions and examining only the material aspects of things, it will never get to the answer of, what is power. If science would however extend beyond itself, beyond the physical world, it would start to dig into the concepts of higher mathematics, the concepts that touch upon the interesting forces that are more in line with the source of all existence and the complexities of the universe. Current science cannot define the answers within itself because it is only dealing with the physical perception, physical world, physical operation, manifestation, phenomena, etc. It doesn't look at the force behind the curtain. It looks at the movie projection on the screen, but it doesn't look at the actual film and the projector, where this is coming from. And maybe it is even trying to look behind the screen, but there is nothing there. This is the common approach of today's science, examining the screen, examining all the pixels and then looking behind the screen and declaring, there is nothing there; Spirit is just a product of brain's hallucination. While science is correct, at least most of the time, explaining the physical dimension, it completely misses a larger picture of existence.nnIn simplified terms: We have a physical body and with our physical body we only perceive the physical world through the five senses. We also have an energy body that surrounds the physical body, sometimes referred to as Aura. Our energy body has a degree of intuitiveness. We also have a causal body, the body of pure awareness. If we would use author Carlos Castaneda's terminology or, to be more accurate, his teacher Don Juan's terminology, we would say that we have a first attention and a second attention. Physical body and mind exist and operate in the first attention. The first attention is everything that we can think and feel and experience with our senses; everything that we can rationalize and understand. Even the most sophisticated concepts, as long as they can be explained, are in the domain of the first attention. Today's science deals only with the first attention. Even our recognition of intuition has to do with the first attention, because "recognition" is in the world of manifest. As long as we can put a label on it, as long as we can formulate it, it is the first attention. The first attention has multiple levels, however, but is still just the first attention. nnDon Juan called this first attention the Tonal. The world of un-manifest, pure potentiality of things and intelligence is the domain of second attention. Don Juan called the domain on the second attention Najual, or the Spirit. Kind of like the silence before the thunder or the space of void before a thought is formed. Power is the force that crosses the dimensions and delivers between the domains. Here is where it gets a little more complicated beyond the linear explanation - Power is the Spirit and it is also an aspect of Spirit. So, the Spirit or the Najual is that part of us and the world that our first attention and physical mind can't understand, because it's beyond it. And, as long as we hang onto control and having to understand it with our physical mind, we will not have access to the Najual, to the power. By hanging onto our Tonal and rational mind while trying to understand the Najual, we're locking ourselves in the domain of the Tonal. So, in order to truly "understand" the Najual and Power, we ultimately have to let go of the Tonal. Our rational mind can prepare us, but at a certain point it can't take us any further and we need to leave the Tonal behind and take a journey. It's like exploring a map of a country – it can give some general information about the roads, altitudes, population, etc…but to experience the country, we need to travel there in person. To "understand" and experience the Najual and Power, we need to leave the island of the Tonal and venture into the Najual. This is what we do in meditation.