Strange electric feeling

[godwide_void]

godwide_void, you mention that ascetic practices 'grant' these capabilities more easily - is this because by disciplining the self, you're serving others with the powers? Or something like that? I'm imagining some sort of karmic debt being paid off.

It is not necessarily the case that via ascetic practice that external service is effectuated, but rather simply the notion that the refinement of discipline (be it mental, spiritual, emotional, or psychical) hones the behavioral and psychological distortion patterns of one's consciousness by sharpening every facet of one's multi-layered mainframe of being and placing the consciousness further in touch with the subconscious faculty which animates the consciousness, thus amplifying the propensity to seamlessly blend the conscious aspect of one's beingness with those innate, latent, dormant or otherwise unrefined or untapped with the deeper recesses of said spectrum of being.

These potentially gleamed notions are also dependent upon the type of ascetic practice followed and one's own volition for engaging in such practice (e.g. self flagellation, extreme fasting, societal isolation, psychonautical/entheonautical methodologies, etc.)