Telepathy / Intuition Test
I suggest to students that the intuition and the psychic ability need to be calibrated. There are two approaches which I do not recommend, which are completely negating/denying the intuition/psychic ability and complete trust of these abilities.
One should not negate them completely. One should not trust them entirely. These psychic tools need to be calibrated by each student, so as to know how incorrect they are. In navigation, we can learn something by studying what is called deviation. This is where a compass or gyroscope reads a number of degrees but deviated by a certain incremental number of degrees. If the navigator knows the deviation, the incorrect reading of the instrument is no problem for him.
If the student knows the incorrect methods of his or her intuition and psychic senses, then he or she can adjust to derive a correct interpretation of what is indicated subtly in the mind.
There is no point in saying that one does not follow the mind, because one has no choice but to do so more than often. Hence since the honest opinion is that one must use the mind, this means that one must use the imperfect mind. Any imperfect but mandatory instrument needs to be calibrated to some standard so as to know its deviation.
Our minds, intuition and perception need constant adjustment and precision rating to alert us to deviation. Some feel that even if the mind is imperfect it does not matter as long as one reads a scripture and gets in tune with deity in some way or the other. However this opinion is held by foolish people who do not understand that despite scriptures and despite deities, the individual must more than often rely on the imperfect mind. For instance whatever is understood from scriptures must be understood using the agency of the mind. This means that the comprehension may be incorrect because the mind is incorrect. It must be used to understand what is read in scriptures. Even the communication with deities, even when that is valid for instance, even then the mind may distort or prejudice the transmission. Hence it is necessary to calibrate the mind, to admit that it is faulted but it is a mandatory instrument which must be used by the entity.
If you are travelling to a faraway place and you have a deviant compass, then should you throw away the compass and travel without one. This is the question. A traveller can decide to dump the instrument, feeling that it is untrustworthy. But what about your mind, can you dump it.
Suppose your spiritual teacher instructs that you dump the mind and just follow him, then what does that mean. Obviusly you cannot dump the mind. You just do not have the power to do so, no more than a bridled horse can remove its halter. The halter can be removed and perhaps your mind can be removed but certainly not by you.
Hence the solution, the practical one, is to calibrate the mind. Find out its degree of error. Put that into the calculations of its opinions and judgment. Also you should be preset that whatever you work out with the mind, even if you know its deviation may still be incorrect.
And you should not become depressed or disappointed in yourself because of this. Do not hold such a high opinion of yourself that you feel that you must be correct 100% in using the mind. Do not feel that anyone else will ridicule you if they discover that your mind is deviant. It is okay that the mind is deviant because it is deviant and you are not going to change that overnight.
