Power flows toward whatever is thought to have significance—and flows away from whatever is thought to have insignificance.
This is almost the same as saying that thinking causes the flowing toward or the flowing away from.
So something regarding empowerment depends on the scope of one’s awareness and perceptions with respect to sensing and identifying this flowing toward and flowing away from.
There is a single clue here. Significance is attributed to whatever is thought to foreshadow something, while if something is thought to foreshadow nothing, then insignificance is attributed to it.
— Ingo Swann, Secrets of Power Volume 1 