The Powers

Whether you choose to acknowledge or not, the spiritual journey as I have taken it inherently involves learning about personal and divine power. In fact certain powers must be mastered before moving to a higher level. Although the use of power usually has negative connotations and is usually associated with the dark side of things, it is also a part of the Light as well.

Also, oddly enough everyone is using many of these powers all of the time. They simply reject the notion that they are doing it. This is mostly the result of conditioning and fear. It is far better in fact if you are consciously aware of the fact that you are using these powers. At least this way you some chance of controlling them and thus, not creating bad Karma.

Although most of these powers become available in specific situations you can “ask for them,” facilitate the use of them, or become aware of them through meditation.

The Personal Powers

See the future
Read Minds
Put your awareness in another body
Sustain the body without food water or air
Move beyond physical sensations
"See" anything, anyone, anywhere at anytime
Change your size or appearance
Modify Maya to your personal needs
Overcome the cycle of rebirth
Reanimate the dead
Modify a physical form to another form
Become invisible
Manifest physical objects from the ether
Speak and hear in Tongues (this is probably not what you think it is)
Levitate
Heal any disease
Direct "rays" of energy"
See" all of the worlds that exist at different vibration levels.
Translocation - project yourself anywhere or in multiple places at the same time.
Astral Travel

The Higher Powers

There are three levels of this kind of power that I am aware of. This kind of power however cannot be described in the context of words. So, I will offer a couple of stories that you might be able to use to get the jest of it.

Knowledge
If you use the personal powers for the sake of knowledge instead of for the sake of power you will gain a certain knowledge of existence which is symbolized in the Hindu stories as the escapades of Hanuman.

Power over Nature
At some point after mastering the powers and the Knowledge you will be approached by the Lord of Nature. Shiva in the Hindu context, Satan in the Christian context. And He will offer you His Bow. If you are able to string the bow He will give you dominion over His domain which includes that of all of the elements, Wind, Earth, Water and Fire as well as all of the elementals nature spirits, and basically all forms of elemental life on the planet. If you should be able to string the bow you would be invincible on this planet. In Hindu lore only Rama could string the bow and He became the Messiah of the last age. In this age there were kings who were also considered as gods. This was the case for Rama.In order to string this bow you have to sacrifice something. It is something most priests, Shamans, Yogis, are not whiling to sacrifice.

Power over Heaven
When Krishna was young, Shiva came to him and presented his bow. Krishna took it, tried to string it and broke it. When Shiva asked Him why he did that, Krishna responded "because this is my destiny". Essentially, this happened to Jesus as well. Satan offered his bow to Him and Jesus just refused it. He didn't need it. God had created these beings to be the beginning of a new generation that would transcend the elemental world. I will leave to you consider how the power over heaven manifests on Earth and what is possible if you can do this.