In mysticism we begin to learn about the different types of power and how we can access them.  The primary way to develop power is through making your mind quiet, shutting off your internal dialogue.  Thoughts drain you.  They block your power.  As your mind chatters away incessantly during the day and night, you block the source of power.  Within you there's an infinite ocean of power.  The sun is always burning within you, but it's in a state of perpetual eclipse because you are blocking it with your thoughts.  In mysticism, you have to learn how to stop thought completely.  Once you stop thought, the power and light and energy of eternity will pulse through you.  That's step one.

- "The Yoga of Mysticism and Power", The Lakshmi Series