Once when I was in college the strangest thing happened. In my sophomore year my girlfriend’s best friend was struck by lightning when she was walking out of the dorms one day. The girl was taken by an ambulance to a hospital, where she spent a day or two recovering; she was understandably quite shaken by the entire incident. Around a month later she was walking from the library to the dorms and was about half a mile away from where she was hit by lightning. Much to the astonishment of the group of people she was walking with, she was hit by lightning again. From what I remember, this second incident was very serious, and the young woman was in the hospital for several days. When she got out she appeared quite disoriented.
Out of the thousands of people I went to school with in the densely populated Chicago neighborhood known as Hyde Park, this particular girl was the only one I had ever heard of, being struck by lightning. In fact, she is the only person I have ever heard of that was hit by lightning. The fact that this happened in two separate locations, to the same person is truly astonishing. Especially considering that this happened in a heavily populated city. The entire thing just seemed so strange to me at the time and still does.
But is it?
How on earth could lightning reach down from the sky and strike someone, in the middle of the city–twice within a few weeks time? Does this make any sense to you? It does not make any sense to me. In fact, when you think about it, there must be something going on in the universe–something far beyond what we are able to see. That it, there must be something out there that controls the way things work, such that this girl was struck by lightning on two separate occasions. Was she attracting lightning? How on earth could this happen?
One of the greatest secrets to explore is the hidden power available to us in our lives. I have no doubt that this woman was able to attract lightning somehow through her thoughts and mind. Alternatively, there is the possibility that this was just a freak coincidence. Still, the idea of lightning…
- striking a moving object (a person) twice,
- within a mile of each other,
- at different times,
- in a crowded city
…is almost impossible to believe. The only possible explanation is that there was some other force at work. Rather than hypothesize that this force existed outside of the girl, I believe that it must have been within her. I think we all have the power to attract to us either good or bad. There is tremendous untapped power within each of us. In this girl’s case, I think she was attracting something bad, using this unseen power within her.
It is important to understand that surrounding each and every one of us are forces we do not understand–both external and internal forces. We have more internal power at our disposal than most people realize, and we can use this power to positive or negative effect. Last night I spent some time with a relative who is training to go to work as a therapist in a domestic violence abuse center, primarily counseling women who have been battered by their husbands and boyfriends. This relative mentioned something very interesting, which is that many women who are abused have been in multiple relationships with different abusers. For example, the woman may leave one abusive relationship and then, a short time later find herself in another relationship with an abusive man.
How does someone attract abusive partners over and over again?
She told me her fascinating theory, which confirmed my own thoughts: “Some people simply put out an energy that attracts a certain kind of person. So they gravitate towards a certain type of person.”
One of the most important ideas we of modern society have, is that of continual movement and progression in everything we do. There is an inner force, which helps people grow and move forward, and there is also a force within people which can lead them in the opposite directions as well.
Some years ago I started to hear stories about various people on PCP who were doing things like lifting cars up, breaking handcuffs and ripping fire hydrants out of the ground. When I was in college, one of my favorite video games, “NARC”, involved a character called the PCP Maniac who would suddenly appear and was almost impossible to stop with bullets. One article on PCP in the text book Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose relates:
Perhaps the hallmark of PCP intoxication is the recurring delusion of superhuman strength and invulnerability resulting from the analgesic and dissociative properties of the drug. Intoxicated patients have been known to snap handcuffs and, unarmed, attack, large groups of people or police officers. This loss of fear has led patients to try to stop a train by standing in front of it, to grossly mutilate themselves and others, to climb into a polar bear’s cave to take a picture, and to jump from windows or cliffs. The bizarre behavior is often violent, sometimes with gruesome mutilation of both the patient and his or her victim. One intoxicated abuser pulled out his front teeth with a pair of pliers. Another woman fried her baby in cooking oil.”
How is it possible that people high on PCP can do things that under normal circumstances would be impossible for them to do? The reason is, I believe, because under the influence of the drug they never stop to question whether or not what they are seeking to do can be done or not. They have only a need or urge to do something; they concentrate all their energies on doing it; and then they are able to accomplish it.
This brings to mind my question as to just what might be possible for most of us to do if we did not know any limitations. Without limitations in our own minds I am almost certain that most of us could accomplish far, far more than we realize. Our minds are a huge source of limitation, and can hold us back no end. The more we refuse to recognize limitations, the more many of us can achieve.
There is a huge power that lies within all of us, and is largely untapped. The limitations on us are partly physical. However, more important than the physical limitation is the limitation of our own minds. The power of our mind to help us accomplish virtually anything is nothing short of incredible.
I remember once when I was younger, there was a girl I was friends with who had a boyfriend at her school. She eventually broke up with him because she said the only time he would talk to her was when he was drunk. I thought this was pretty funny at the time, but thinking back on this particular episode I remember thinking to myself that there must have been something that was holding the guy back under normal circumstances. Alcohol is no different than something like PCP in that it lessens inhibitions and can serve to allow people’s true natures to surface. Psychological limits (like socializing) may be lessened.
The fact that drugs may lessen our inability to do and see what is possible is nothing new and is something that many people are, of course, aware of. But what makes this so interesting is that in general we place all sorts of conscious limits on ourselves each day. I would go so far as to say that the most powerful people in the world, the most successful people in the world, the people who are getting the most out of life, are all those who are able to overcome the voice inside their heads, which tells them something cannot be achieved.
While this statement may not sound terribly complex, in reality I think it is. There are simply forces at play, which many people are not aware of, and which draw certain types of people and circumstances to each person. We have hidden strength and abilities in our own mind, which we only need tap into, in order to make the most of our lives.
The more you can tap into your mind and discover all the amazing things you are capable of, the more likely you are to accomplish all of your dreams.
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