I was sitting in an intersection in my own car when I first noticed. Waiting is not my strongest point of talent, so I occupy wait time with useful pursuits. In intersections, after the traffic has been assessed and all that’s left to do is wait my turn, I observe things.

Eventually I noticed a pattern that surprised me regarding other participants in the wait-your-turn segment of passage. As I’d observe the face or the hair or the gesture and attitude of a driver whose attention was on some other thing, suddenly they’d look straight at my face.

Surely they could “feel” my gaze. So, where does that energy come from and how is it detected?

I don’t know either answer, but it’s just as true as if I did.

I never believed that Kreskin curled up forks with his mental energy and I don’t know about levitations that people have told me they’ve accomplished with their mind. 

Roger, an Air Force buddy from Pennsylvania, was involved in a religion that focused on channeling mental energies for fun things like levitation. He asked me to hold out my palm and when he passed his hand over it in close proximity I could feel an energy.

So I operate from the opinion that there is true vitality available in the management of human thinking that not only gets things done by persuasion but also by control of powers that aren’t available to those not aware of their availability or excercised in the disciplines that unleash them.

People have considerably more power available to them than they know.

An old saying, “spiritual strength is the natural result of spiritual excercise” applies in other areas of management. Physical strength is also a result of physical excercise. And mental strength is the natural result of mental excercise.

Many years ago I drew live sketches of a family consisting of two adults and three children.

I began with the seven year old girl, who transformed in the process of the live sketch into an ageless soul. She was beautiful and had a pretty face and the sketch was an experience to savor because it was so positive. Her sister and brother were next. I was taken by the fact that though they all looked uniquely different, the features were nearly identical on paper. The sketch was a spiritual experience in every case, though now that I review the fuzzy photos one of the girls provided  later I see that the quality of the art was not so good.

We moved on to another room where I sketched the two adults. By this time I was mentally exhausted, but I forged on.

I shouldn’t have.

I didn’t know at the time that there is a point where the three energies that allow me to create great art need to be in balance. My physical strength was adequate. Mentally I was drained so I could not function sufficiently well to proceed and do well.

So it takes practice. And practice isn’t just training hand eye coordination. The mind manages the emotions and the body and if it’s not excercised in the arts, there are limits.

And there’s more. It involves cats.

This is a dynamic I’ll address if I haven’t already.