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Psionics: raising your game

Less searchable M0rd4nt

10:00 / 07.09.02

As some of you may already know, I've been doing light psionic exercises on and off for the last... well, forever. I recently got back into it again, approaching things in a more organized way. I've been getting improved results, especially when using visualization to affect electronic devices.

My most successful project has been dickering with the random search device at my place of work. This is basically a little box on the wall with a button and two lights, a green light marked "Pass" and a red light marked "Search". When you go past the device, you have to press the button, and one of the lights will come on, randomly. The green light means you can go through, but the red light means you have to wait by the door for the security bloke to come and search you for stolen jewellry (not as grim as it sounds, but tedious). I got fed up with being metal-detectored so I decided that I only wanted the green light to come on when I hit the button. It's working nicely; I haven't been searched for weeks.

Now I want to boost my power, but I'm not really sure how to go about it. I use regular visualisation exercises based loosely on an online psi course, but that website is gone now and I can't find anything else out there that I like.

Anybody got any tips?

15:57 / 07.09.02

sorry cant give advice, but teach me instead oh great ascended master!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:53 / 07.09.02

Pfft. Nowt to teach, really. My main excercises are:

1a) Visualise your entire body being filled from top to toe with psi energy; you might see it as light, or fluid. Now imagine that all this energy is slowly pooling in the palm of your outstretched hand. Then imagine it slowly sloshing back.

(At least three times a day, swapping hands regularly.)

1b) Imagine that you're standing in a high, empty place. It could be the top of a tower, or a mountain peak, or a cliff. You raise your arm above your head. Energy coalesces around you and is drawn to your hand. Your hand is at the centre of a bright ball of energy. Energy is pouring into your body through your hand. Keep the visualisation going until you see your whole body filled with light.

(As a variant on 1a, if you get sick of it or it doesn't seem work for you.)

When you get the energy visualisation down and you can see what psi energy "looks" like to you then you can start visualizing it doing stuff, like making a shield (or buggering up a search device so you can go for a fucking piss without having to wait for the guy with the metal detector snigger at you because, ha ha, your bra strap set off the metal detector! Oh, the humour).

01:17 / 08.09.02

I would think that, talking of psionics, exercise is a lot more importat than different techniques. Exercising (sp?) energy sensibility and energy manipulation. Mind is a muscle, the more you use it, the better it works. The most difficult part is to learn do do the "moves", and that is like learning to ride a bycicle.

03:15 / 08.09.02

I used to do thhe above sort of exercises, and I have a dumb question now: I am usually electrically charged with statics, you know, the guy you pass nearby and you go zzzzzap! Ouch!, or the guy that goes reach for the leveator button and shrieks yooouch!! Don't touch it!. Mordant, as this deals with bugging electronic devices, do you think such static-charge phenomena is somewhat related?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:20 / 08.09.02

do you think such static-charge phenomena is somewhat related?

Whatever psionic energy is, it's not electrical. Electricity doesn't do what psi does. I suppose it might be related, however, in the sense that the psi energy might be affecting the build-up of static in some way. I just don't know enough about psi yet to say for sure.

Various cold-war era Russian experimental results purport to show that psi can be used to manipulate electrical currents but it's impossible to know whether these experiments were real or just disinfo (and if they were real, whether they were conducted under proper experimental conditions). This means that I'm forced to rely completely on other people's subjective reports of their experiences, which sort of goes against the grain.

11:30 / 08.09.02

It might be a long story: I had a comunist uncle (which, in Mexico is not so difficult to happen), who used to share his books with me (even if I was just a kid). I remember reading one or two reports on soviet psychotronics (in spanish, but from soviet or cuban origin). As much as I can remember, they were pretty solid on their methodology. There wer rumors of them hafing gizmos that could enhance psionics, but that's something that never got shown or denied

17:39 / 09.09.02

This is a MAD technique,but I concentrate on sensing the electricity in the palms of my hand,by just altering the focus of my attention to either the left or the right palm centre(its impossible to do both at the same time.)You feel the tingling.

After a while I could find this sensory information from my palm(s) much quicker,and the result is that I like to sense a spinning or a small vortex there that ,depending on which palm I'm concentrating on,will have a different effect. I think (though it may not be the rule),that the left hand is more of a healer.
Well I got the whole idea from a hallucination of a turning vortex in one of my hands during trance, as well as looking at the design of a pair of 'cuffs',or gloves, by Marcus Amerman (contemporary Native American Indian artist,Choctaw).With the spirals in these 'cuffs' as inspiration I tried visualising this sensation with the notion of spinning in one direction or the other.Then try this visualisation the next time your dog is sick or whatever,lay on the hands.Through focus on your hands tingling and the image of the vortex spinning is a way to focus your intent.(which is to quicken the Healing process or console a sick animal.)Stop laughing Im frickin' serious.

NB;
'Marcus Amerman (Choctaw) is best known for his beadwork, purses and jewelry. A beadwork portrait he made of Janet Jackson was used as cover artwork for Rolling Stone Magazine. He is an eclectic artist who combines humor and a sense of traditionalism in his work. Of Native American art he says, "If you (a Native artist) do a painting or a sculpture, say of Janet Jackson then it's like you're going over into western culture. With beadwork, you're taking it back. It becomes Indian. Janet Jackson becomes Indian." '

I hope this doesn't derail anything...

01:19 / 10.09.02

I've always had good luck building up a "charge" of energy by bouncing a sphere of it between my hands...

Basic protocol is to rub your hands together until they're nice and warm and tingly, then separate them by about an inch, then make tiny movements bringing your hands closer together and farther apart. You'll feel some resistance to pushing your hands together (or another sensation - extra heat or tingles, something thicker than air in the space, etc). Compress that stuff, then pull your hands a little further apart and fill that space with the stuff, then compress it again. Keep pulling your hands further apart and filling the space, see how big of a sphere you can create and how dense you can make it. Coordinating the motions with your breath helps as the sphere gets bigger.

I've found that doing the Middle Pillar and the Circulation of the Body of Light exercises help a lot - they seem to give me more energy to play with.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

02:16 / 10.09.02

MC what used to be the address of that Psionics site
we could check it out on the Wayback machine

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:59 / 12.09.02

It's okay-- the site's still in existance, it'd just moved. For some reason I was getting a 404 instead of being re-directed. I've tracked it down now.

Active Psy

17:52 / 12.09.02

Don't forget Tai chi, a great way to open and raise your internal energies. It makes a good warmup to doing other work as well, as it can make more energy "available" to you to do other exercises. Especially if you do it as a QiKung, where the Tai Chi form is a breath and energy focusing exercise more than physical self defense.

22:29 / 12.09.02

I had a try at a similar thing, trying to get the crossing lights (The Green Man! - UK joke) to be in my favour every time. And it worked, when I was in a certain frame of mind. I found that the trick was not to think it would change, not to hope, or to try in any way - but just to know, and not think about it anymore.

01:04 / 13.09.02

Yea, that sounds familiar. When the magick is flowing, it feels like you're in "the zone". You're not just trying, you are the result. It just is. Yea, I've felt that times when I've had the magick/psi going just right, and yuo can feel it when the wave breaks and you loose it.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

03:37 / 13.09.02

Surf the waves o' Synchronicity. My theory is no one notices the true adepts.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:44 / 27.02.05

Been picking up and dropping this stuff during the intervening years (more pickupitude than dropfullness). Can't offer you any terribly thrilling results but I'm still keeping my head just above random chance levels. I've changed my visualizations a bit over time: now I imagine a big cloud of "energy" (god I hate that word!) shooting down bolts of lightning into my head. I'm also thinking of ways I can use my more formal ritual work to boost my "energy" work.

Bumping this coz I found a good site a few weeks back and
keep meaning to add it:

GotPsi.org. They have a varitey of fun online psi tests: an RV test where you try to get information on a hidden picture, a location test where you try to guess the whereabouts of a marker on a square, and some card games.

My remote veiwing is teh suxx0r, and I'm dreadful at all the guessing-games. However, I am doing pretty well with the card draw test where you have to try and influence the cards using the Power Of Your Mind.

The game is simple. You're presenrted with a row of five cards, face down, and a target image. Your job is to try and make the target image appear when you turn over a card by clicking on it. I usually need a few goes to warm up but over a number of runs my results are usually above chance. Today my scores are hovering around the "6.3 to 1" mark, which is okay I s'pose.

I suspect I could do better, but I'm a fearfully lazy little bastard. I have very little innate psi ability and if I don't practice for a few days I can't do a damn thing. Anyone else want to have a go?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:08 / 27.02.05

See, one reason I keep going off the boil with this stuff is that I don't properly unnerstaaaaand it. The card thing is simple enough--that consciousness has an effect on random data is old news (uncertanty principle blah blah quantum blah). So why, exactly, does imagining big bolts of lightning going into my head and "energy" flowing out of my eyes and into the computer screen help, exactly? Also, some pictures are harder to get than others. I do really really well with some pictures (shallow stuff like ice-cream, gold bricks ect.) and badly with others. Why? I mean, obviously I have theories as to why but... ack, I'm rambling. Sorry.

nyarlathotep's shoe horn

20:22 / 27.02.05

written messages reading "i love you" and "i hate you" affect the alignment of water particles (according to the documentary "what the BLEEP do we know?"). Love harmonises, and hate creates discord (at least as far as water molecules and their hydrogen bonding is concerned).

dunno why, dunno what it is, but I believe it truth (which opens up a whole other linguistic can of worms, best left for another thread altogether).

there's a group that meets here in Vancouver (Pacific Coast of Canada) on a monthly basis, practicing psionic yoga (light on the yoga). I haven't been able to attend due to work scheduling, however, I've heard it's pretty fun - dunno how practical a psionic exercise it is, but these things tend to sort themselves out over the longer-term.

and there's something to be said for energy manipulation (in terms of the big ol' ball of energy between one's sweaty little palms) on the dance floor.

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pablo

00:29 / 28.02.05

Thanks much for bumping this, MC - I've been practicing off and on as well...

I've been getting more of the tingly sensations (sometimes all I have to do is think about it...), have been getting much better about timing things I need to do (like heading out from a parking spot to pick up a friend from a mass transit station, though I think I would have been happier not getting there so early as to need a parking spot).

Would love to have a group to practice with, though. Anybody got any advice on finding (or actually starting!!) such a thing?

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

05:00 / 28.02.05

I've been doing some psi-related magic for years. What I mean by that is doing something by will alone, rather than word, deed, or ritual. I've gotten decent at a few minor tricks.

It seems to me that psi is, quite to the contrary of some posters above, ESPECIALLY good at manipulating electrical currents. I managed to keep a computer running, as far as anyone can tell, by sheer will alone. The thing never got a virus, lived through Y2K despite me being told it was HORRIBLY noncompliant, and ran pretty much perfectly right up until the day I drew all my power out of it and put it into my laptop. That was a bit of magic more than psionics, but I've found that a bit of will and some visulization goes a long way towards solving many mechanical problems.

I've also found that people react when I put my hand about half a foot away from their back and push forwards just a bit. They'll move forwards, or out of the way, or just generally give me some personal space without even really seeming to realize it.

Nothing really special. All very minor...but neat tricks to daily living that I think have a touch more utility than some of the higher magics (calling up deities, embodying archetypes, healing, etc.), if only because it takes no physical focus to perform.

As to Soviet psychotrons, I've read a bit about them, as well as a few other sources that note an increased rating on ESP tests with electrical stimulation to the brain. But that was years and years back, so I'm not sure where I got the information from, or just how accurate it was.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:59 / 28.02.05

people react when I put my hand about half a foot away from their back and push forwards just a bit. They'll move forwards, or out of the way

See, that macro-psi-type stuff hardly ever works for me. All my successes have been micropsi, affecting simple binary information. (Apart from my having an unfortunate affect on machinery if I'm in a really bad mood and that sort of thing, but since those things happen without my conscious involvement you can't really call them successes.)

rising and revolving

13:00 / 28.02.05

On the electro front, I've always been a machine-healer. I'm one of the few people I know who fixes hardware purely through the laying on of hands - sometimes I have a bit of a fiddle and pull things out before putting them back in, or generally twiddle knobs and such.

I used to make my living doing pretty much exactly this... although the people who paid me assumed I was more competant than I was - mainly because I kept fixing things I had no right to.

My Mother, on the other hand, destroys electrical equipment by mere proximity (and we're talking stuff like vacuum cleaners and toasters, as well as more complex devices) - she also stops watches, etc etc. My theory is that these are both manifestations of much the same thing - for some reason I'm electro-harmonious and she's electro-distruptive.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:12 / 02.03.05

I think maybe some further analysis of the subject may be required so that one might create a more effective excercize regime. No point mucking about with a chest-expander if you want to build your thighs up. Some thoughts...

Psi vs. ritual magick: Up until recently, I've been inclined to keep my psionic workingand my ritual working in two seperate mental boxes. However I now find that they have chewed a hole in between and at night they sneak into each other's dens and do-- things. From one perspective, isn't effecting change in accordance with one's will pretty much exactly what I was doing to the random search box back in '02? All I can say is, it didn't feel like teh hmmygjiyks. The flavour was different.

Micro to macro: Has anyone here observed actual macro psi effects? Coz I've been trying to spin a compass needle with the Power of my Mind for aaaages now and zilch. Ditto lighting candles and freezing water droplets. (I can make nice fat squishy psi-balls in my hot little hands but they don't actually seem to do anything. Except squish.) However, I sort of feel that it should be possible to do these things. See, although an object going from "cold" to "hot" or vice versa does so along a sliding scale, the level of energy present can be thought of as a binary state. Instead of greenlight/redlight, that hot/this hot. So how come I get a result with one (and I truly pWnz0red that search-box) but not the other?

01:34 / 03.03.05

Why? Maybe because bumping electrons/messing with a "random" process is easier than adding/removing energy in a system (heating stuff up or cooling it down) or shoving a physical object around.

Hmmm... With that compass needle, are you trying to push it directly or trying to create a field to influence it? Might be fun to take a psi-ball, declare it to be made of charge, then move the charge to be analogous to an electromagnet, see what happens... Or, separate the psiball into "north" and "south" components to the left and right of the compass needle and see what happens.

I may have to try some of this myself. No compass, though, so I get to perform the magick trick of floating a magnetized needle in a bowl of water. Wonder if the partial charge of the water molecules will help or hinder?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

10:06 / 06.03.05

The thought occurs that maybe a compass is the wrong thing to use, since you're always going to be fighting an extra force--the needle's always going to want to point North. Maybe I should be using an unmagnetized needle?