Helene Hadsell is The Winning Sage – Part 4

In 2008, Vishen Lakhiani and his team from Finer Minds (now Mindvalley) interviewed Helene Hadsell and created a program called The Winning Sage, which included 13 videos, 4 audio recordings, and a PDF version of the 2nd Edition of Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game.

Since clips from those interviews are widely shared on Instagram and TikTok, I thought it would be prudent to create a blog series featuring highlights, along with the full video (or audio) from each interview, to ensure Helene’s teachings aren’t lost to quick sound bites.

Interview Four

Helene’s destiny was to teach metaphysics and how powerful we actually are. In both In Contact With Other Realms and Confessions of an 83-Year-Old Sage, Helene shared her adventures with the fourth dimension, messengers, invisibility, and levitation. You may remember this story if you have read her books, as she shared her experiments with thought forms.

Encounter With a Fellow Traveler

Helene loved to experiment with what she had learned. One story she recounted was that she envisioned a silver dollar until she could see it clearly in her mind’s eye. Then she would close her eyes and mentally place it somewhere to see whether someone else could see what she was seeing. Sitting on a park bench, she mentally placed her silver dollar on the sidewalk.

A young child came along in a stroller and suddenly noticed something on the ground. He reached down several times as though he were trying to pick it up. His mother told him there was nothing there, but the little boy continued looking at it.

Later, an older man walked by. He looked down, smiled, and told Helene that he knew what she was doing. That he was a fellow traveler and she couldn’t fool him.

Did they actually see her thought form? Or was something else happening?

Be like Helene. Experiment with ideas that fascinated you without assuming you have to figure everything out.

Additional Experiments

Helene did another experiment with a group of people who were asked to create a thought form together. They imagined a six-foot-tall man with very specific characteristics, including a British accent, one brown eye and one blue eye. When psychics later entered the room, two of them described many of the same characteristics the group had imagined.

Helene wondered, “Had the psychics picked up the group’s thoughts?” They said they saw them, so did the group succeed?

This leads me to the part of Helene’s philosophy that I believe everyone should take to heart: experiment. She didn’t call her book The Name It & Claim It Game by accident. Helene wanted you to remember to play, experiment, and have fun, right in the title, because life is a GAME.

Helene didn’t seem particularly interested in accepting an idea simply because somebody else told her it was true. If something caught her attention, she would try it herself. As she put it, if something is important enough, explore it. If it isn’t, move on to something else that interests you.

NOTE: I went through the books I inherited from Helene. I couldn’t find any books specifically about thought forms. She may have read Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Néel or Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater.

Doctor I Know

In The Name It & Claim It Game, Helene added a chapter to her 2003 self-published edition titled Physician Heal Thyself. When Helene faced a physical challenge, a doctor from the 4th Dimension would visit her. He appeared as a typical doctor wearing a white lab coat. She would communicate with him telepathically for answers.

This brought up another question she spent time exploring: Where do our thoughts and intuitive answers actually come from?

Helene spent time in England attending séances because she wanted to investigate this for herself. She wondered whether the beings or figures people experienced were thought forms created by their own minds, or something independent of them. You can read about her adventures in depth in the A Search For Answers chapter in In Contact With Other Realms.

Be Curious

To me, the real lesson from this interview is that Helene was curious. She was willing to try things, observe what happened, and then keep asking questions. That curiosity is a big part of what made Helene such an interesting teacher. She didn’t just talk about what she believed. She experimented with it.

And whether you believe thought forms are something we create, something we perceive, or simply a fascinating exercise in the power of visualization, there’s an interesting question underneath all of this:

How much more powerful are our thoughts than we realize?

Watch the full interview below and decide for yourself.

Learn more about Helene and all of her adventures in her books:

• Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game
• In Contact With Other Realms
• Confessions of an 83-Year-Old Sage
• A Man Called Friday