But certainly you are right that this is something that people need to be aware of. That they needn’t worry if they think they are appearing strange to others – or that they don’t “fit in”, because it is all a natural part of the process of self-development.

“Concluding, this means that changing beliefs changes perception. Seems easy to say, but almost impossible to do. I guess one solution to this might be to truly understand what a belief is in this context. What do you think?”

I think that beliefs are relatively easy to change. But people make the mistake of starting big. It’s important to challenge the little things. Don’t pose questions like; “Do I believe in God?”, “Is the paranormal really real?”, “What is life?” I find it far more effective to avoid those sort of philosophical questions and instead focus on things of a more practical nature.

Why do I react in a certain way to specific circumstances. Why are certain questions important to me…indeed are they *really* important to me. Is there a reason I keep consuming sugar, or is it just conditioned habit. What do I feel *inside* myself when in a cathedral or church.

Beliefs build up from those little things. And those things aren’t really all that hard to understand and then change, given time and patience.

As for the paranormal, synchronicities, visions etc. becoming the “norm”. You are right in that those sorts of things are around us all the time, I probably didn’t express that paragraph very clearly. It is our lack of awareness that causes us to fail to see them. The more we develop our awareness the more we can experience. It’s like any other faculty we possess. Lifting weights makes us stronger, running makes us faster…and so on.

I have a post coming up about this in a few days, it’s a massive subject indeed…

When you talk about becoming weird or odd, I remembered the case of Jung. He said, that when he decided to go deeper and somewhat exclusively being absorbed in his introspection, those around him thought that he actually went crazy. For the outer world he looked and acted like an insane.

Actually I think this might be a problem, a so called obstacle in the awareness break trough. Especially in the case when the break trough wasn’t a result of a conscious decision, a volitional act. In this case there is the possibility to believe the insanity impeachment. So I guess it is vital to understand for those starting a spiritual quest to be fully aware of this. And only an extreme lucidity can keep the soberness required not loose the mind. It is very good that you pointed that out.

Another excellent observation you make is that “perception is only limited by my beliefs”. Even if it sounds like a trivia, it is an unavoidable fact. Concluding, this means that changing beliefs changes perception. Seems easy to say, but almost impossible to do. I guess one solution to this might be to truly understand what a belief is in this context. What do you think?

You say, “Synchronisities, visions, so called “psychic” abilities eventually become the norm”. Might be very much true. But this sounds like something desirable from the lower level of awareness. Like a bait. My take on this is that whether these become a norm or not, it is not important. Instead I would put the accent on starting to be aware of synchronicities from the actual level of awareness. Those phenomenons are present all the time, it is just the (lower) level of awareness and understanding that thinks of them as synchronicities. We are so much trapped in the causal thinking that it is real hard to learn again the acausal one.