Category Archives: New Age

A question from K.G. in Chicago. He writes: “I find it a little hard to put into words, but I believe that the following might be worth asking about. There was a psychic in the early 1970s named Olaf Johnson, who was reputed to have used his mind-concentrated energy to make others do his will. For example, making a bus driver make a U-turn or drive around the block; and further, that he could move objects with his mind, even to the point of levitating another person. He said that his power is all latent within each of us and that to do these things that he would first momentarily think of the universe outside of earth, outside of this perceived reality, and then, when he felt himself in the “now” (my word, not his), when he felt a blissful peacefulness within himself, that he could then focus upon our perceived reality, and seeing it as an illusion, he could manipulate it at will, as if his world was his own dream that he could alter with his own mind. Awareness mentioned the “Meditation of the Now.” Is this meditation the key to achieving a higher consciousness, and if so, are we to put ourselves in the blissful feeling the meditation brings and to “remember” throughout the day the vibration associated with this kind of meditation? If this is not exactly correct, please advise us of what we must do to achieve a continual sense of Samadhi (love) and to be able to flow into the higher realms of consciousness that Awareness says is now available to us.”