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Telepathy

15:38 / 17.05.02

Any telepaths here? Anyone experienced this, be it intentionally or otherwise? Spooky things you shouldn't have known? Tests with guessing cards turn out statistically better than they should? Syncronicities abound between people who are close. Anyone experience a prolonged psychic link with someone they were shagging or otherwise close with? I know I've got stories.

17:55 / 17.05.02

All the time, Rude. Lets here your stories first.

19:02 / 17.05.02

This is good. Are we going to discuss telepathy as every powerful synchronicity ("Oh, dear! I was just thinking about you!") or should we go for the classic defintion of telepathy that entails that you actually hear the voice of someone speaking in your head, as Gurdjieff used to do with Ouspensky?

19:48 / 17.05.02

Alright, here's a good one. Girl I'm dating, natural witch but untrained, gets frustrated and yells outloud "God Dammit you call me right now!!!". Not 2 seconds later, I do. Her roomates were pretty freaked.

I dated her sister for awhile too (don't ask, it was a wierd year for me) and we actually worked at it to where we could cheat at cards when playing spaids. We practiced by concentrating on an image/word and the other would guess it. Sometimes we'd be a little off, like I tried to send a tree once and she thought it was broccoli. From my own experience, I would tend to get them when I got so frustrated I gave up and said the first random thing that came to my head, and that'd be it. I realize now that I'm more studied that I had worked myself into a brief flash of gnosis when I was able to receive. It was mighty hard work, that. Unfortunately, we mostly used it to send lewd ideas at each other, so there wasn't a whole lot of scientific study done there. Unless you count biology, that is

And yea, I did the card trick. Guessing black or red I got about 3/4 right.

I've never had the direct voice in the head type, I'm not good enough at focusing and blocking out my own thoughts for that. But I can often find someone I have a link to just by walking where I think they're at, and similar tricks. I'm better at empathy, and healing tricks like pointing at the spot on your back where the cramp is.

There's some of my experience with it. I'm curious if others hee have messed with that end of things, or have theories on how it works on the magickal level.

19:52 / 17.05.02

Ok dammit, this is wierd. I'm thinking about all this psi shit again, and I feel raindrops drizzling on my skin, like little pricks. I still feel it now. But I'm inside. I look outside, and its starting to drizzle. That's not one of my usual tricks, I don't know what that one's about. Wierd. Who that I know is caught out in the rain, I wonder?

solid~liquid onwards

15:11 / 18.05.02

well i first got into all this magicy shit after doing well in the zenner test. i practiced with my brother for a bit, and then a friend, soon i was able to consistently beat the odds, and on several ocasions i got 100% (we had stopped doing the full test, and did it on a card by card basis)...after that i thought i'd try the drawing basic shapes thing, one person draws something, and the other person, at the other side of the room copies...that worked pretty well, but more complex shapes got muddled, i was never able to *hear* other peoples thoughts, but i could project ideas into others...once while in french class i imagined insects in the persons sitting in fronts hair... they started scratching their head all the time...eventually it came to exam time and i stopped practicing, and never really started again, partially cos i had no-one to practice with (my friend just kinda didnt want to do it anymore, he said he was a bit freaked by it).

17:19 / 18.05.02

psychic post, tune in to read

'I feel raindrops drizzling on my skin, like little pricks'

I find I quite often get that experience, as though some adrenal effect is taking place, but also vibrational, major energy shift.

My experiences with telepathy developed consciously through the use of divination, which I felt could be a tool with which to tune into another person and open up the antenae.

I practiced with a friend of mine Bob, and defined it with the term 'telempathy'. WE would experience and communicate on sevral levels at once, sharing inner dialogue experiences. This occured, prodominantly, in the breast bone area, or heart chakra/will centre.
I have practiced to refine this technique, focusing on the emotional aspect of it as the entry point. Very useful in counselling.

We should experiment here, I've had some mad group experiences, directly over the internet.

solid~liquid onwards

20:59 / 19.05.02

could be interesting :P

00:25 / 20.05.02

Hmmm. Often find that I start texting my partner - after several hours' silence - to find that he's texted me at that exact same moment. I generally ascribe this to our knowing each other so well we instinctively/unconsciously second-guess. If there are 'Lithers out there who can genuinely out-predict the Zenner cards - especially if they can do so 'remotely' - I'd be interested in helping devise a suitable experiment.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

05:35 / 20.05.02

So we can all end up in a lab somewhere between areas 50 and 52? Careful.

solid~liquid onwards

08:06 / 20.05.02

lolb3
i havent practiced in ages, which probably means ive totally slipped, i find these things to be a bit like muscles, the more you work-out, the bigger they become, but if you stop, they'll get smaller in a while, but you'll still have your techiniques, so it becomes easier to start again later. :P

all these things have been proved in experiments before, but the people who didnt beleive you before, still wont....well mabye not, you have to make the sceptic experience something directly... i remember at the height of me practicing telepathy, i was working at a water bottling plant during school holidays, and i was having a fairly generalised conversation with a guy about the unexplained during a lunch break. he was of the opinion that there probably were psychics and such, but they were only a small number of people born with the skill, or have had weird accidents, i said anyone could train themselves up, and told him i'd been practicing a bit, so he took a pack of cards out of his pocket, shuffled them and picked one and asked what it was...to his (and my) suprise i got it right

i love that look of shock and disbeleif

16:47 / 20.05.02

Often find that I start texting my partner - after several hours' silence - to find that he's texted me at that exact same moment.

I get that via ICQ with an old friend of mine, who I've always been very close with. I think of him, look up at the ICQ, and a message appears a second later.

I've found that when a group is tight, this sort of thing happens more via the carrier wave of the group consciousness. Examples like, I'll be thinking of some complex escoteric problem, wander over to talk to someone and find they've been working on the same problem and were able to spit out the answer I just came up with. Distributed processing. There are party tricks too, like thinking how I could use a smoke and turning around to someone handing me one, stuff I mostly take for granted anymore being accustomed to the local hive mind.

But it is interesting when this happens over the net, like with the ICQ bit above. Or via distance, like the time by wife decided to cut her hair the exact same way as a good friend of ours the same day he did, or when the day of my b-day party I spent trying to unclog a drain and needing a better drain snake and a friend of mine deciding to buy me one as a gag gift that afternoon, while I was working on the drain. Telepathic syncronicities, information exchanged through the unconscious network of the group mind. It just goes to show that whatever the carrier for this sort of information exchange is, its not effected by distance. Much like quantum effects.

solid~liquid onwards

17:49 / 20.05.02

ive experimented over distance a few times , over the internet & such, with fairly disapointing effects

I find it best with eye contact

04:43 / 24.05.02

CUSM: I've found that when a group is tight, this sort of thing happens more via the carrier
wave of the group consciousness...

More than one of your examples is me. Voila, here I am reading Magick out of the blue. Sheesh.

Amusingly and off-topic to a degree, I've had experiences with the prickling raindrops feeling before. Not lately, but very often from about 15 to 21-ish years of age. Only on my right side, and it generally came a bit before or right after an intense emotional happening.
Said happenings were either negative, or a great positive illustrated to me by counterpoint to a serious negative. Like: X awful thing makes me bug out, but the train of thought X sparks leads me to a positive realization. Like sand causing a pearl to be formed (a metaphor I get a lot of mileage from, it explains a lot of how my life works) Anyhow, this 'pearl formation' was hallmarked by the rain feeling.
I don't often talk about it, as it's a remnant of a tumultuous period for me, perhaps obviously. The last time I felt it it was very pronounced, and then I had a 10 minute interaction with Christ, culminating in an embrace that I was surprised to actually feel. After that it stopped. Handfull of years ago.
/ramble

07:37 / 24.05.02

a lot of times i've been watching live interviews with people on tv and had a sentence appear in my head, which is then spoken pretty much word for word a few seconds later. it's happened randomly, not something i've yet been able to control.

another thing, related perhaps - i sometimes walk past a stranger and get a rush, a very powerful feeling of knowing what hir name is, a huge sense of what their life has been like and a real sense of who they are, all in a second or two. it happened to me just the other day. it's very odd. i've never asked the person concerned, to see whether it's for real, or just my imagination working overtime.

and when you're very close to someone, i think you can 'tune in' to their thoughts to a certain extent. i rang my best friend the other day, just as she was reaching for the phone to call me. and people i've been close to have started singing a song i was thinking about.

The Natural Way

09:13 / 24.05.02

I had a very weird experience shared by my twin bro when I was 8ish (Woooaaargh! TWINS!!!!). We were holidaying in Cyprus and Mater was having a bad time: her boss was a right kunss and she happened to be in love w/ him and... Anyway, Ad and I were by the pool when suddenly we heard Mum's voice say very loudly and very clearly (as though she were talking into our ears) "I want you". We looked at each other and burst into fits of giggles, which were quickly dispersed after we'd made our way to Mum's hotel room and found her crying because her boss had just sacked her. I know people tell this kind of story and you suspect they're just fantasising - wishing it were so - but this really happened and it was very, very fucking strange. She wanted us alright.....