The Ability of Curse and Favour
The ability of curse and favour, the ability to help or harm another simply via the Force and Formation of will, is noted as a Connection Outcome in the Yoga Sastra of Hemacandra[1] It is an example of the Enhanced Power Over Creation that often attends Connection Experience.
Examples
Enhanced Power over Creation > Arendi, Direct Mental Interaction With Living Systems, Levitation, Teleportation, The Ability of Curse and Favour, Walking on Air
List of Connection Outcomes
Connection Outcome > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union
Notes
"The fortune of the blossoming flowers of the [fabulous] wishing tree of yoga consists of [supernatural attainments (labdhi), such as] walking in the air (caarana), the ability of curse and favour (asivisa), extra-ordinary perception (avadhi), and mind-reading (manahparyaya)."[2]
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