Short Biography of the Discoverer of Psycanics:

Thomas  M.  Powell

I have been asked repeatedly to tell something about who I am. It seems to me that it is irrelevant who I am; it only matters what I say -and then only if you find what I say of value for you. You are the final judge of that.

The reason it doesn't matter who I am is that in philosophy and in science, the source of any information is irrelevant to the value of the information. Wisdom from the mouths of fools is no less wisdom; and foolishness from the mouths of the learned is no less foolishness. Furthermore, the fact that a person says something valuable one time is no guarantee that what he says next is not foolishness. So you have to evaluate every datum anybody says if you seek Truth. (I explain more about the concepts of  Reality, Truth, Belief and Mu in Pyscanics, Level 1.)

Whether what I say is valuable or not only you can determine, and only after you have understood and tested it.

So, although I don't see that it matters, here is a little of my history:

I was born near Dallas, Texas, to a lower middle class family. I was raised in a strict Roman Catholic environment, including parochial grade school. So Catholic was my upbringing that I spent my four high school years in a seminary studying to be a priest and missionary. Fortunately, at the evaluation at the end of those four years, the administrators decided that I was unsuitable for the priesthood and kicked me out.

I can't fault them: I was besieged by doubts about religion. So much so, that I became an atheist as I entered the University of Texas at Austin. However, my atheism lasted for only a year as I came to the conclusion that I could no more be sure that there was not a God than I could be sure that there was. So I finally settled in the middle, in agnosticism. I just didn't know.

During my college years, I had several of what I now know were mystical experiences: enormous expansions of consciousness and identity to being ONE with all, accompanied by ecstatic LOVE and JOY and certainty of my immortality and that all in life is perfect. They were profound and glorious experiences. At the time, however, I had no idea what was happening. The word "mystical" was barely even in my vocabulary. And certainly the Catholic religion failed miserably with any kind of preparation or even a conceptual framework.  

Before we continue, let us define mysticism. 

I dropped out of college after two years and was drafted at the height of the Vietnam War--but sent to Germany. After the army, I went into a small business and made enough money so that I did not have to work. I accumulated all the symbols of material success: a nice house, three airplanes, two cars, three motorcycles, and other toys. Externally, I seemed to have it made.

Internally, however, my experience soon turned to emptiness, insatisfaction, and frustration. With all the upkeep of the planes, the vehicles and the house, I felt like I was little more than caretaker, a servant, of material things. Something in me rebelled at that. Furthermore, I could project to my future and see clearly that no matter how many "things" I should acquire, it would not and could not ever make me happy. This time was very painful for me, a "Dark Night" of my soul.

Right at that time, I read two books. The first was Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Bucke. This book explained mystical experiences and cataloged how many others had experienced what I had. I found out that those kinds of experiences were (relatively) well known and had been for thousands of years! I was amazed. (This book, written in 1898, is a classic in mysticism and should be the first book read in the field.)

The second book was The Master Game by Daniel Ropp. This book stated that a human being could reach and maintain mystical states by developing his Being. In other words, you didn't have to just wait around hoping someday that the "God-lightening" would strike you; you could work on yourself to cause it. The book put forth this work on yourself as the purpose of life, the Master Game. (If you read this book, I consider only the first 6 chapters as worthwhile--the rest is a rehash of Gurdjieff´s ideas better studied elsewhere.)

My worldview was profoundly shaken. I saw that my experiences had been mystical experiences. They were glimpses of the Kingdom of Heaven; they were the Pearl of great price, worth any effort to obtain. Remembering how glorious were those experience, I decided to make their pursuit--to "Seek First the Kingdom of Heaven"-- my goal in life. I sold most of everything I had and moved to a shack to dedicate myself to the Master Game.

I scoured the Dallas public library for books on mysticism. Because of the Catholic seminary, I felt I already knew-and had had enough--of Christianity. I concentrated, therefore, on Eastern religions and took out dozens of books on Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism, Gurdjieff, and individual mystics. (I will call all these "systems"; many are not religions.)

I read 8 to 10 hours every day for four months.

At the end of that time, I felt I understood the basics of each system-- and I was totally confused. Everybody seemed to contradict everybody else.

But in the confusion, I could identity eight points on which every religion, East and West, seemed to agree.

However, my overall experience remained confusion and frustration. I was stuck. Except for taking some courses on meditation (which were to prove invaluable years later) and continuing to read about mysticism, I took no real action.  I couldn´t; I didn't know what to do. I just started drifting through life.

By age 30, however, life had me in an existential crisis that forced me to evaluate my life and confront what is the most important question anyone will ever ask: What is the purpose of life? At what should I aim, dedicate, my life? What mountain should I climb? If you do not answer that question correctly at the beginning of your life, you can arrive at the end of it to find yourself on the top - but of the wrong mountain.

The answer for me kept coming up as point #5 above: "Returning to that Source is the purpose of life and the only real value in one's existence: Seek the Kingdom." This was now the third time I had that in my face. The first time was the mystical experiences. The second was my religion--mysticism studies; the third was this life crisis.

No matter how I looked at it, I had only two options. Either I was going to go for it, for mysticism, for the Kingdom of Heaven; or I could try to pretend I didn't know and try to lose myself in the world and its pursuits and pleasures. But if you know, you know. There really isn't any choice: there is only action or no-action.

"Coincidences" soon moved me to Oaxaca, Mexico, which is an ideal site for mysticism. It is remote, quiet, with few worldly distractions; it is a high-energy point like Tibet or Machu Pichu.

In my journey, I found Eastern religions much clearer and more aligned with what I consider the spiritual truth. However, certain sayings of Christianity have proved to very poignant and useful.

Seek First the Kingdom of Heaven
Seek with your whole heart, mind and soul.
Lay your treasure towards the Kingdom of Heaven.
Do not put false gods before me.
(These meant to me that the search had to be my #1 priority.
It had to come before family, job, business, money, or pleasure.)

The Kingdom of Heaven is within.
Be still and know that I am God.
"Within" to me meant meditation, which I already knew is the universally-recommended discipline in all systems of mysticism. Meditation is being still at all levels, especially the mind.

Seek and you shall find; Knock and it will be opened to you.
That meant to me that if I did my part, whatever help I would need would be forthcoming.
And as long as I did not give up, I would eventually be successful.

Commitment is real only where there is action. All systems seemed to agree on meditation as the key to mysticism. I started to meditate, at first 10 minutes twice a day, and then always, always increasing the time. At the end of two years, I began to have some idea of what meditation was about. At the end of three years, I was up to an hour and a half in the morning and hour and a half at night. I then started one period of two hours at midday and worked up to three hours, three and a half hours, and finally, on special occasions up to five hours seated, without moving. 

By another "coincidence," I found a Teacher, someone with experience who could guide me.

I learned that the accumulation of the psycanic energy necessary to penetrate beyond the veils has to be based on balanced physical energy. I learned yoga and became a vegetarian and purified my body of the many toxins of modern chemical life.

Later, I learned how to dissolve the anti-love in which we humans are encased using the P.E.P. techniques I explain in psycanics. With this, I began to make rapid progress.

Eventually my efforts paid off. I began to penetrate the blackness of the consciousness-suppression mass in which we humans are encased. I began to see who we are, how consciousness, mind and emotions function, the nature of reality, the laws of love, and many other things not visible to us at normal human levels of energy and mind.

When I first started out in mysticism, it was my plan to work on myself, reach Illumination, and leave this terrestrial plane forever. I told no one what I was doing (except my wife). I had no plans to teach, to write, or to leave any record.

However, as I advanced, I realized what I was seeing-- that everything is ONE LOVE ENERGY and how LOVE really works (very different from our human ideas of love)--was the solution to all the problems and suffering on this planet, from the most personal interior agony to the apparently insolvable international conflicts. I realized that humanity needs this information and that I should at least try to leave some record.

By another strange "coincidence," doors opened that led me into teaching:  first psychology in the local university in Oaxaca, Mexico;  and then pure psycanics all over Mexico.  I worked intensively with hundreds of people, and at both levels: everyday human problems, and mystical development. 

Psycanics worked almost magically. People and families healed and changed. The demand for courses and processing grew. People came to study full time and a school sprang up. I trained teachers and they taught and trained even more teachers. The school grew to have branches in 14 Mexican cities.

All this gave me an incredibly rich laboratory in which to apply, observe, test and develop techniques and technology. Thousands of people revealed their inmost problems and sufferings to receive guidance on how remedy them. For 17 years, I accumulated practice and practicality with the knowledge.

Finally, in 2001, I perceived or received (however you want to look at it) the final equations: the Identity and the Love equations. The knowledge was complete. I had a grand and beautiful crystalline sphere of laws and principles, in which every phenomenon and every law was connected and interacted with all the others. It covered everything from evil and human suffering, through creation and manifestation to union with God. It is, simply, Wisdom.

Wisdom consists of knowing what and who you are, where you come from, how you function, how you got here, why you are here, where you are going, and how to get there, and how to control your life while you are on the road. It consists of the laws of mind, emotion, self-esteem, behavior, creation, manifestation, relationships, love, happiness, and all other non-physical phenomena within your experience. Above all, it is the Knowledge of Being, Power and Love.

The Wisdom is now complete along an entire spectrum. That spectrum ranges from the depths of human suffering and even insanity; through what the average person needs to resolve his problems and live happily; to how to know and unite with God. The beauty of if is that one set of laws and principles explains everything. It explains criminality and insanity on one end, and God on the other, and everything in between.

I divide the knowledge into two parts: psycanics and mysticism. Psycanics distinguishes itself from mysticism by being laws and principles of mind, emotion, love and relationships that any human being can verify for himself. It stands as a verifiable human science, like a psychology, by itself. It needs no reference to mysticism or God or anything beyond ordinary human perception.

Mysticism, on the other hand, is very, very difficult to verify: it requires years of meditation and disciplines. However, psycanics naturally leads into mysticism. Psycanics empowers you to win the game of ordinary life, to manifest the relationships, work, money and toys that you desire. Once you have few challenges in this world, you will look for bigger and better games and find the Master Game.

Now in year 2003,  I am writing everything down in English and creating this website for those who are interested.  

So as to who I am: I am just an ordinary human being, who has walked some little way down the path of personal and spiritual development, and who has discovered a very precise and powerful technology that anyone can use to do the same.

I have had one great advantage.  Many people never have even one mystical experience in their entire lives.  Most of those who do have only one or just a few in their entire lives, usually lasting only a few minutes.  I learned to trigger them in meditation and have had over 300, lasting an average of 2 hours.  And I learned to control my attention and will and to direct the experiences to see whatever I wished to understand. These three factors-- quantity of experiences, duration of experiences, and control within the experiences--have given me the rare opportunity to really see how Spirit and Being and Power and Love and Happiness and spiritual development work. 

Who I am: not important.  What I know and offer, psycanics and mysticism: A Science of Spirit, can transform your life as it has mine.