What I teach my kid are all the things school never will - meditation, imagination, language/NLP, personal power. School teaches a weak yet somewhat attractive form of consensual disempowerment - so that society becomes a farm of stuffed animals.
I wouldn't even ask "what should I believe?" Believe nothing seems a better starting point. Then observe those residual beliefs that your actions betray.
Most eastern philosophies posit six senses, not in any psychic sense, but that from the point of view of a core pristine consciousness the chattering mind is just another input, like the somatic senses. It is also the hardest of the "senses" to perceive directly, as we cannot pre-think a thought - we can however pre-touch something before we touch it - but we can perceive that the thoughts are not necessarily ours, in the sense of empowering them.
To many, this may seem like a loss of power, because we are shedding connections and biasses built up over years, but eventually our core power should shine through and be activated - it was just hidden in a fog of misperceptions. :-)
Thank you for sharing. I will be touching on some of what you mention in my next post tomorrow. Without putting it all here in this comment, I will say I know that much of what we are taught as supernatural is not. It is natural and been stripped from us by programming to make us less than our potential allows. I spent many years studying many things that have been given to us from many cultures. Seeing differences in possibilities with the one common denominator being belief/faith.
I home schooled my son after the 5th grade. I grew tired of his being held back in his studies so the slower children could have a better chance at keeping up. Grew tired of the social dynamics being programmed into him that had nothing to do with critical thinking or practical skills. Grew tired of many things, most of all having my son cared after by those who didn't care about him.
Thanks again for stopping by. :)
Yes, our powers are natural, and very few know their limits.
It's not just splitting the spiritual from the dogmatic religions, but then further experiencing that the spiritual is just another word for supra-sensory.
Instead of researching and teaching super-humanism, we are being conned into the nightmare of trans(sub)humanism - the fallacy that becoming more mechanical will make us more powerful - maybe true if the limits of one's imagination are to have faster feet ;-)