How can one "use", benefit from, the extra energy?

[Tom]

If you were to be given 1 million or 1 billion of the currency of your choice, would you have to ask how to spend it? How much to give away? How to invest it and how much? There are so many possibilities that it is hard to answer.

It is the same way with energy. Did you have specific things in mind that you wanted to raise energy to do or to have?

[Aeneas]

Well, brainstorming, it would seem that the following require energy and, therefore, might be enhanced by the application of energy gained through the NEW techniques:

Brain functions in general, memory in particular.
Knowledge of remote events
Telepathy
Psychokenesis
Infusing speech with power (to convince or to work magic)
Purification of soul
Discerning the divine intentions within events, creatures
Lessening the hours of sleep required
Enhancing sensitivity to be able to perceive positive and negative influences, the properties of stones, astrological influences, astral properties of trees and animals

You are, of course, correct that the list of possibilities is virtually endless.  But I think the categorizations I asked for last might still be possible.  And forum participants might relate their own experiences and methods, especially if they relate to the above list or things similar.

Optimal phrasing of the question is a first step in obtaining helpful answers.  Does this help?  My limited experience makes it somewhat difficult to formulate the questions well, but the dialectical questions posed back to me help me work through the issues, too.

[Aeneas]

Shedt raised this issue in a discussion we were having in the OBE forum, but it seemed that we might get a more thorough answer here:

What are the different ways that one can "use" the extra energy gained from the NEW techniques?  I am sure that any adequate answers must take into account the level of development.  So please help us on this and tell us:

How to define various levels of energy development? What are the signs of each stage and perhaps how long / what practice schedule it took for you to get there.

After identifying the stage, please let us know what are some of the things that can be done with that particular energy level.

Or, perhaps since there are different types of energy present in the chakras and people chakras tend to develop at different paces, it might be helpful to address the question from the perspective of a given level of develpment of a particular chakra rather than of energy in general.