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Knowing other magicians?

Ying

22:10 / 05.03.04

Have you been into situations where you immediately know that someone is a magician (or similar practitioner)? I know I have at several occasions, without having any obvious tell-tale sign to rely on. I've just known.

I wonder if anyone else often has this experience and if you can enhance this ability further? What are the invisible signs to look for?

boywonder3689

03:38 / 06.03.04

Actually, I do have this Band director, he is from egypt, but he has alot to hide...when I am around him...and I am very sensative to majick, I get a tingling feeling...he definately is a magician.

vargr

05:53 / 06.03.04

I believe that it is a combination of factors. Many of them relate to body language and movement. In my experience, a great deal can be told about a person, their relative will, and their mindset by watching their posture, gait, stance, etc. There are a number of online resources that can teach more about this skill if you are of a mind to develop or further it.
As for the non-physical factor, I can't explain how I sense it, but I just get feelings not unlike a change in air pressure, or a low frequency sound wave. It gives my skin a tingle.

Ying

10:03 / 06.03.04

When I meet ordinary people, I get (and this is not derived from the physical stance primarily) a vivid "image" or "feeling" of that person is like. (I put these words into quotations, because it's not really an image or a feeling.) I sort of know the person immediately and know what to expect from that person. I've often thought that this might be some kind of advanced prejudice thing, but when I have tested it (by provocation or by asking) I do not seem to be wrong.

It's another matter with practitioners. They seem to be "not there" when perceived. Or to present a surface. They have an ability to shield or hide themselves, which makes them easy to recognise. But that's all the info you're gonna get, because they can choose what to reveal so to speak.

vargr

15:21 / 06.03.04

I understand what you mean. To me it is the opposite. Practitioners radiate a feeling that norms seem not to. In one metaphysical community gathering I used to attend monthly, it was like a sport. Trying to "read" everyone who was there, even as they were trying to do the same to me. I look at it as a sort of surface empathy.
Conversely, if I see someone who seems to be more than meets the eye, and I want them to notice me as well, I will focus attention on them in an attempt to "ping" them. like sonar. Sort of a way of saying "here I am, I am like you." I just use the body language aspect as a quick personality sorting mechanism.

Ying

20:29 / 06.03.04

I see what you mean. What's significant seems to be the practitioners' ability to choose what is perceived (even though this action is also perceived). When you (vargr) say that you meet someone who "seems to be more than meets the eye", is that what you mean?

vargr

06:49 / 07.03.04

Exactly. It may be a crude comparison, but in nature, a predator always seems to know another predator. I've always assumed that it was just another sense that most people have no use for, and so it has been devolved from the senses that they have available. This might get a little trite, but please bear with me. All entities with nervous systems generate minute electrochemical energy fields. Typically these fields are too weak to sense. Those organisms who have learned to increase their energy fields, via magickal practices, Chi focusing, etc. radiate a stronger field. Consequently, they also gain the ability to detect that same field intensity in others. Just a theory.

Z. deScathach

08:22 / 07.03.04

I'd have to agree with you. I've always had the same abilities. The interesting thing is that the people that I usually detect are either magickal practitioners or dangerous predators. I remember attending a group once that contained a very charming fellow. Everybody liked him. Somehow I knew that he was very dangerous. He met me on the street and asked if he could spend the night. I told him no, after which he told me, calm as you please, that he could make me disappear forever. I told him that I was hard to make disappear. I think that both magickal practitioners and human predators have very strong energy fields. Magickal practitioners use them to work magick. Predators use them to overwhelm and secure the will of their victim. This makies both groups easier to detect by someone that is sensitive to energy fields.

Ying

12:26 / 07.03.04

I think that you could group these into a category called "manipulators", because that's what they (we) are. People skilled in manipulating reality.

Another thing that is interesting is that you seem to be able to gauge the "level" of the person as well. ("Level" is a very crude word, but I couldn't find any better.)

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