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Throughout history there have been people that claimed to have special powers. There have also been people that believed that others had these special powers. But Giordano Cardan believed both. He believed that people who were very moral and truthful had special abilities. He also thought that he did too. Cardan lived in the 16th century and was famous as an Italian mystic. What I find very strange about him is that he predicted his own death and to make sure that the prediction came true, he locked himself in his home without food or water. I really don't think that it takes much of a prophet to predict the outcome of doing this. He was also know as Gerolamo Cardano, Jerome Cardan and Girolamo Cardan. He may have been a mystic but he was also an educated man, having studied medicine in the University of Pavia in Italy.

Did you know that there is supposedly a very powerful secret that explains and allows all forms of magic to take place? This is known as The Great Arcanum. Supposedly no one has discovered it yet.

In World War II the NAZIs became very interested in the occult and put together a team of astrologers. When the British heard what the NAZIs had done they decided that they had better do the same and put together their team, named it the 'black group' and chose Louis de Wohl to be the head. de Wohl was a Hungarian refugee who claimed to know how the German head astrologer reached his decisions. He designed a book which showed that Nostradamus predicted the fall of the NAZI government, it had 124 pages. It was dropped over occupied territory in large amounts. This makes me wonder, can you imagine being hit in the head with a 124 page book falling from about 10,000 feet? OUCH! I wonder how many of these books came crashing down through roofs or slammed into windshields of cars. I don't mean to get off track but I remember when the U.S. Army decided to drop bags of flour to help out starving people in a third world country. The bags crashed through many structures and caused injuries and fear. This was not exactly how to win over the hearts and minds of the people. By the way, the flour was in special bags that didn't break on contact.

It seems a little odd, but it seems that many mystics were mathematicians. I personally don't see the relationship with math and mysticism but I am sure someone could argue a case for this. Giordano Cardan was a mathematician as was Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, many hundreds of years later. Ouspensky was born in Russia and is famous for his works on Tarot and Tertium Organium. He thought that he could find a relationship between Western Rationalism and Eastern Mysticism.

Mystic is sort of a broad term. I guess that you could consider some Swamis as mystics along with some Indian medicine men. The tribal medicine man was a position of honor and respect as well as a position of healing. American Indian medicine men are responsible for discovering many of the drugs that are used today to cure many different types of ailments. I remember when a modern day medicine man was asked how all these drugs were discovered by the indians? He replied that it was trial and error, you gave something to a sick person and if they died, you tried something else next time. Things are no different today except the testing goes on mostly in a lab.

A fakir is a type of Indian mystic, that is an Indian from India not the U.S. A fakir presided over a mass fire walking episode in Singapore. The people who were to walk on the fire spent several days fasting and praying in a Hindu temple. The crowd of fire walkers was composed of about 800 devotees. The fire pit was over 20 feet and consumed over 8,000 logs. As the fires were lit, people began to walk on the logs. Over the course of the day, two people fell into the pit and had to be rescued, one died. The rest of the crowd managed to walk over the burning logs. Of the approximate 800 people only five percent received any burn at all. Ninety five percent made it through the flames without a scratch or should I say burn. How can this be, can the human brain somehow prevent the temperature of one's skin from rising too far? An experiment was conducted where a fakir had special paint put on his feet. He then proceeded to stand on a rock that had reached a temperature in excess of 600 degrees. He stood there for several seconds and then stepped off. When the paint was examined it showed that his feet had never gone to a temperature higher than 150 degrees.

An American chemist claims to have been able to chew hot coals, put a hot iron to his tongue and even touched molten metal with his tongue with out even the slightest burn. Strange, very strange. The fact that a chemist did these things raised red flags for many, however unfairly. One thinks right away that maybe he used some chemical compound to protect his body from burns. But there seems to be many people with the ability to fire walk. So many in fact, that this can't be considered just a freak of nature. It seems to definitely be a question of mind over matter.

If this can be accomplished, then you have to wonder what else are we capable of? What hidden powers do we have that we just are not aware of? Look at athletics. One has to train very hard to be a champion athlete. Is it the same with mental powers? If one were to someday be able to receive the correct training might he or she be capable of mental feats that we haven't even dreamed of today? Machines are now capable of picking up our thoughts and turning them into actions. The actions are simple such as moving a computer cursor, but this capability exists never the less. Remote viewing, the ability to view events miles away, has been shown to work. It just makes you wonder what else we will be doing with our brains a hundred years from now? Imagine if we can augment that power with an implanted computer chip. Someday we may all be super people.