Tibetan mystics say that each physical and mental act produces a currents or waves of energy they call shugs or tsal (written as rstal). Each act, thought or word then creates shugs. Psychic phenomenon arises from these energies depending upon their intensity (strength) and the direction in which they are pointed.
Adepts who have developed sufficient powers of concentration are able to use these energies in various ways. They are able to infuse an object with these energies so that the same energies will be transmitted to anyone who touches the object.
For example, an object embedded with the energy of courage or vitality will impart courage or vitality to whosoever touches it. Inanimate objects can also be infused with energies that bring them to life so that they can move and perform actions at the will and direction of their "creator."
As currents of energy produced by thoughts, shugs would then be visible to clairvoyants, taking form and color as described by Besant and Leadbeater. They could also affect photographic plates per the research of Baraduc and others.
In J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, invisibly was granted to anyone who wore "the ring." For Tibetan mystics, no such device is necessary. Tibetans say if one is adept at ceasing all activity of the mind, one becomes invisible at will. When the mind is active, it generates an energy which spreads around the person.
That energy is palpable and felt in different ways to people who come into contact with it. There is a stimulus which excites a reflection and leaves an impression in the memory of others. When you succeed in stopping all activity of the mind, no such energy is generated. As you are not exciting a reflection in the minds of others and not leaving an impression on their memory, you will seem invisible to them.
Theosophists Besant and Leadbeater would concur completely with the Tibetans. Every thought, word and act has a consequence in the unseen world which then directly impacts upon the physical. The world of the occult (hidden) is of far more importance than the world of the visible. You can perhaps understand then there is reason behind the Buddhist practice of right body, right mind, right speech.
The Stuff of the World is Mind Stuff:
Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur S. Eddington were renown British astronomers of the first half of the 20th century.
They shared more in common than their nationality and profession, though. Both these astronomers had arrived at the conclusion that the universe (and everything in it) was a creation of …pure thought!
In his book The Mysterious Universe (1931), Jeans wrote of the uncanny mathematical nature of the universe and that "the mathematics enters the universe from above instead of from below." He was saying the mathematical nature of the universe is not fashioned by the human mind but is inherently of a higher power of thought. Albert Einstein referred to that higher power of thought as his definition of God.
In one startling paragraph in his book, Jeans states that:
…the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter; we are beginning to suspect we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter-not of course our individual minds, but the mind in which the atoms out of which our individual minds have grown exist as thoughts.
