We all know that there are people with supernormal abilities, and we believe that this is an innate talent given by nature to individuals. But is it? After all, there is another opinion, which is rarely voiced. It is expressed in the fact that everyone has superpowers, but they do not always manifest themselves.
We do not know how to use them, because we do with a simple set of lower levels of the mental system. For those who want to use higher mental centers in their activities, this does not always succeed because there is another important connecting link that has also lost its relevance, and therefore does not allow it to break through to a higher level. It is also known that a person’s superpower is reborn in those cases when he strives for this.
In order to understand this issue, we consider as an example the hero of the series Patrick Jane's “The Mentalist” - John Kreskin. He has outstanding qualities and helps investigators unravel crimes. We are used to calling human superpower the term “extrasensory perception” that is complex for our language. But the filmmakers refused this word, because they believe that their hero does not belong to this category of especially gifted people. They called him a "mentalist" - an individual who independently developed his consciousness to a higher level.
Perhaps this is due to the desire to abandon the stereotype already prevailing in the cinema that a person's superpower appears only as a result of some kind of injury, shock, lightning strike, accident, exposure to high voltage. Americans do not believe in these tales. Their minds are so rational that they regard such especially gifted people as scammers, and in most cases this is true. But the Americans admit that everyone can, if desired, rise to a higher level. And people believe this, because there are such phenomena as suggestion, hypnosis, effects on the mass consciousness and the like.
Our Russian people still lived in communal apartments and believed in a bright future. Believes now - the past teaches us badly. Therefore, we also believe that human superpower can be developed, but we do not know how.
The creators of the film "The Mentalist" believe that their hero has achieved remarkable results in this. He has a particularly sharp mind, he is able to inspire, mesmerize and impose his will, read other people's thoughts and infiltrate the consciousness of other people. Moreover, their hero himself made himself so.
The first and main skill he needed for this was understanding. It turns out that learning him is not easy. We rarely understand each other. When the interlocutor says something to us, most often we just wait for the moment when the time comes to speak out to us. The film shows that we live in a society, but do not have the slightest desire to understand each other. And superpowers begin with this quality.
Why is it so hard for us to understand other people?
Firstly, because for this we need to overcome the power of our egoism and force ourselves to listen, even when what we are told does not fit into our beliefs.
Secondly, because the desire to understand other people is not developed in us, there is no sincere interest in others.
Only one who knows how to listen and understand can overcome the central links of the psychic system and reach the highest level, and this is not so easy to learn. For example, the hero of the film had to work on himself for sixty years.
