I've been to the other side a time or two. So I understand that the place we call "heaven" is very real. It is more real than this current construct we refer to as "reality". I call it the astral plane.

So the question becomes, if that place is real, and I know it is because I've frickin seen it, (Seen isn't the appropriate term. It's more an experience as it involves all six senses) then how does it work? How does it jive with what we see in our waking lives, day to day?

The truth is that it actually governs this reality. And in that other place, mere thought is enough to alter our reality here.

So how do Tibetan Monks harness and utilize chi power? They spend their entire lives practicing transcendental meditation - that's how. They can interact with the other realm JUST ENOUGH to make subtle changes to the real world that elude our scientific instruments of detection. (See videos on YouTube of monks melting snow with their minds, or staving off hypothermia by increasing their skin temperature while reducing their metabolic rates).

This stuff is magic. And while I joke about being a sorcerer on here, and talk about magic, I don't actually practice it because I understand full well the dangers involved with it.

But I have a good understanding of how to go about practicing it, and how it can, in fact, be used to make a difference in our lives.

The only point of this thread was to get people thinking about it in a non-taboo way.

But to the example I laid out in the OP, I think the science is sound.