Influencing others’ actions – part 2

Not only does the power of your thought determine which people make their way into your life, but the power of your thought determines how they behave once they get there.

— Abraham

Excerpted from Abraham’s newest book, The Vortex, Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships
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In my last post, I discussed the first part of the above statement, but explained that while writing the post I couldn’t decide how I felt about the second part of the statement.  Eventually, I came to the conclusion that I agreed with it, but didn’t feel that I had room enough to cover my thoughts in that post.  So, here we are…

I have come to the conclusion that Abraham is talking about mind control of other people.  I fought with myself over that.  I didn’t want to believe that they would make a statement like that publicly.  I tried to read it as though they were really saying that new people coming into your life would act differently than others because you would have been attracting people that would be inclined to act differently in the first place, or something along that line.  But, the statement is pretty clear, and doesn’t really allow for that interpretation.  They are saying that, with the power of your mind, you can control what other people do.

So, once I accepted that, I started to think about events in my own life.  Did I have any examples of mind control to point to?  The answer: Yes!  Absolutely!  There are a couple of different situations where I have actually controlled other people with my mind, on more than one occasion each.

The first example is actually the earliest memory I have of doing something like this.  I have a brother who is about 16 months younger than I am, and when we were kids we lived down the street from two other brothers, Roger and Eric.  Eric was the same age as my brother, and Roger was a year older than me.

Since we were so close in age, the four of us spent a lot of time together.  One thing we did was to play cards.  Nothing very dramatic about that – we’d usually play Gin Rummy or something along that line – but I remember being able to tell Roger what card to play when it was his turn.  I could do it so often that he eventually refused to sit to my right (apparently, it worked better when I wanted the card for my own hand).  I had a great time pissing him off!  Oh, but it was even better when we were partners in a game.  We were hard to beat.

I’ll try to tell the second example as succinctly as I can; I used to work in a building supply wholesaler’s warehouse.  They sold mostly doors and mouldings (trimwork) to lumber yards.  One of the primary job functions was, of course, loading trucks with materials to deliver to the lumber yards.  There are two parts to this process; the physical labor of loading, of course, but before anything goes on the truck, somebody has to pull the right stock from inventory – they have to pick the order.

Mouldings come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes.  From as small as 1/4″ in width, to as much as 10″, and sometimes even larger.  Each pattern comes in bundles of a certain number of pieces, from as few as 4, to as many as 60.  In addition, they vary in length from 6′ to 16′.

Now comes the tricky part (well, one of them).  Imagine a 5,000 square foot warehouse.  Probably 60% consists of rows of wooden partitions with 2″ metal pipes or wooden dowels sticking thru, about 4′ apart, to create “bins” where the different moulding patterns are stood on end.

The order pickers usually worked in teams of 2.  The ‘caller’ carried a clipboard, with one lumber yard’s order.  The mouldings would be listed on pages of graph paper, each pattern in its own little quadrant of the page, so the caller had room to do the necessary math.  You had to be fast and efficient, so the first thing you had to do was to look over the order and, in your head, map out the route you were going to take through the warehouse.  Since the patterns weren’t kept in any particular order, you had to know ahead of time where things were located, and you’d have to constantly flip back and forth between several pages to be sure you weren’t missing anything as you went along.

I’d like to apologize at this point for the long-winded explanation, but the complexity of the task is what dictated the job duties when a new guy was hired.  There was simply no way for them to perform the ‘caller’ job, since they new nothing about the layout of the warehouse.  So, it fell on them to do the labor-intensive job of pulling bundles of moulding from the racks, and putting them on the cart.

But, even that part of the job had its mental challenges.  The lumber yards would specify a certain footage of each moulding pattern they ordered.  For instance, they might want 2,000 ft. of pattern #302.  OK, no problem.  302 came 12 pieces to a bundle.  A 16′ bundle was a total of 192 ft.  Grab 10 of those and you’re close enough, right?

Right.  Except that they don’t want bundles that are all the same size.  They want a mix.  So, the ‘picker’ needs to be able to do accurate multiplication, as well as keep a general sum total, in his head, as he goes about the task of pulling a nice mix of bundle lengths.

Here’s where the mind control comes in (finally!, right?).  At this point, you might have the impression that this could be a fairly overwhelming task for a new worker – and you’d be right!  Most people aren’t used to doing 3 and 4-digit addition in their heads, let alone 2-digit multiplication.  The end result for the new guy is a mental overload, and that, I believe, is what allowed me to control them.

What happened was this; I would be the ‘caller’ for a new guy.  I’d direct him to the proper pattern, and tell him, “OK, we need 1,000 feet.”  If the bundles had 25 pieces of moulding, you could total up 1,000 ft. in 4 or 5 bundles.  He’d have already pulled 2 or 3 bundles, and he’d be trying to remember the approximate running total while trying to figure out the total footage in a 13′ bundle to determine if that would be the right length to grab.  At that point, while his hand would be tentatively reaching for that bundle, I could mentally tell him, “No.  Not that one.  The shorter one on the end.”  And his hand would change direction!  Not in a subtle way, either.  He might be headed for a bundle directly in front of him, but would veer off course by 45 degrees to grab the one I wanted.  And he might still be looking at the other bundle!

Granted, this is completely un-scientific, and you don’t have to believe a word of it.  But, if it ever happens to you, you’ll believe.  You’ll know that it wasn’t just coincidence.

So, why was I able to do this?  My theory is that a clear signal from any source will cut right through the mental babel that is occurring in someone’s head under those kinds of circumstances.  Have you ever been surrounded by a lot of noise, but were unaware of it, and able to focus on something?  Your mind simply tunes the noise out, and you don’t even notice it.  For some people, it’s even a better concentration aid than silence.

In those years, I was much more involved in meditation, and had gone through the first level of what was then called the Silva Method of Mind Control.  The Silva course was a series of guided meditations, and was aimed at helping one to control one’s own mind, not someone else’s, but all of that meditation helps to keep you aligned with Source energy.  And we’re all connected to Source, right?  I guess it’s just the strength of that connection that determines how much you can do with it.  What do you think?