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Developing /Working with Psi

17:35 / 25.02.04

I don't know what folks' beliefs are here regarding psychic pheneomena, but I'd like to see what you all think about it from the perspective of being magickal practitioners.

I've had these "flashes" of precognitive ability all my life, usually occurring when I'm really tired, most often during hypnogogic sleep/waking, but on other occasions as well, such as after prolonged exertion (work or exercise). These flashes are of very short duration (just a few seconds), & they seemingly come out of nowhere. A thought, a fragment of a sentence, a song lyric, whatever...just "pops" into my head, and a short time later I'll hear the very words be spoken by someone nearbye, or be said on TV or the radio. Its always unexpected, and it always freaks me out a little when it happens.

This isn't something I usually share with people for fear of being thought completely mad, but it seems to be happening with increased frequency of late. What I want to know is: what does it signify from a magickal perspective, and how can I develop this ability?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:14 / 25.02.04

"What it signifies from a magickal perspective" will vary wildy depending on the magickal perspective in question!

Currently going through a similar thing myself, as it goes. I've rambled on about the details elsewhere and I'm sure everyone's quite sick to death of hearing it, so I'll restrict myself to plugging a couple of sites I've found very helpful.

A comprehensive set of techniques for developing/improving your psi can be found here, at The Playful Psychic. It's a step-by-step guide that aims to help you develop by harnessing your own strengths and addressing any fears you may have. It's a bit huggly-schnoogly, but not overwhelmingly so.

The RetroPsychoKinesis Project deals with micro-PK effects. It has lots of interesting theory and links to relevent scientific studies. More importantly, it has some nifty experiments that you can do online.

22:17 / 25.02.04

I've had exactly the same pre-cog experiences! Usually I'll have a flash in a dream, then weeks, even months later I'll be doing something and then just remember that I had dreamed it!

I too would be curious as to any magickal connections. When I first stumbled, I wondered if maybe I was unconscoiusly charging sigils in the form of images, but the more I think about it I think it may be some form of pre-cog. ANyone else got any ideas?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:43 / 25.02.04

Oh! Forgot to mention rvtargets.com, another site I use. This one deals with remote viewing. What they do is, they allow you to select a target image (a photograph of some visually interesting scene) from a pool of images. You attempt to remote-view the picture, and when you're ready you can record any impressions you've garnered in a comments box before seeing the photograph and assessing your accuracy.

I'm completely useless, but you might have better luck.

14:52 / 26.02.04

This isn't something I usually share with people for fear of being thought completely mad, but it seems to be happening with increased frequency of late. What I want to know is: what does it signify from a magickal perspective, and how can I develop this ability?

I'd suggest finding a way not to be freaked out by it... You might want to do some visualization exercises in which these little flashes are you connecting to the bigger magickal Universe. (not necessarily an easy task, depending on the detail you work with - I'm still trying to reconcile a "knowable future" with "free will") Be open to this sort of thing, accept it as you accept information from your physical senses.

I suspect that the more you get comfortable with getting these little flashes, the more likely it is that you'll get them without needing to be in tranced or altered mind states. This worked for me; I seem to avoid random traffic clogs and find parking pretty easily these days...

16:48 / 26.02.04

Thanks for the replies.

I guess what freaks me out the most is when these experiences tend to "cluster" together, a rapid-fire pattern of synchronicities that can be almost overwhelming. (Often they combine with other chance events, such as say, reading or writing something with music or TV or people in the background and then reading or writing a word that is then spoken by someone nearbye or whatever.)

Thing is, its usually never anything useful per se, not any kind of warning or a window onto anything of significance, its completely random.

I sometimes get the impression that the brain is like a radio receiver flipping through different frequencies or stations if you will, and somehow those frequencies are not bound by temporal law.

Sometimes though, I just intuitively "know" things, where there is no doubt in my mind that what I just picked up on will happen. (This occurred the other week, when I knew that my tax refund from the state would be in my mail box, and that I even knew which neighbor I would bump into when I went to check my mail.)

I just want to figure out how to better harness it, cut down on the noise and extract more useful info as it were.

03:04 / 27.02.04

noise??

In the way that a "weed" is just a plant growing where you don't want it to grow, I would suggest that your "noise" is just information coming in that you think you have no use for. It's still information coming in... and I would recommend tuning into the process as much as you can, applaud when the info does come in, say thank you, then respectfully ask for the sort of information you want to receive.

But be careful what you ask for - if nothing's going wrong, you probably don't want to ask for warnings!

16:27 / 27.02.04

Well, maybe noise is the wrong term then. Perhaps "temporal echo" is a more apt description...But still, there just doesn't seem to be any tuning involved, it just happens randomly and then its gone.