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FrozenFlames: Alright, welcome to PsiOnline and UPC's (Unified Psionic Club) joint seminar. Today we'll be covering the topic of TELEPATHIC scanning and deciphering.
FrozenFlames: Firstly, I want to bring you all abreast on a method UPC has been using for seminars/classes/etc. When I ask you all to tell me when you're done with something, if you're ok with something, or something similar, I will ask you to "check off".
FrozenFlames: This means simply putting in a period and hitting "enter/send/whatever". This is a LOT simpler, rather than getting spammed with a mass Private Message.
FrozenFlames: Scanning itself is a very broad topic. One with the ability to scan in one area of psionics may completely lack the skill in another form of scanning. I'm assuming everyone here knows the approximate definition of "scanning" in general. If not, speak up now.
FrozenFlames: Coke: Exactly
FrozenFlames: Ok, so to start off, I want to you all to spend about a minute within your minds. I know this sounds weird, but I need you all to get a feel for what its like to be shifting around a mind, moving and wading through thoughts.
FrozenFlames: Meanwhile, tons of your own thoughts, most likely about the seminar, will get in your way. Spend about a minute on this, don't take TO long, but don't do this for a just two seconds either.
FrozenFlames: check off when you're done, PM any questions
FrozenFlames: What I want you to do is start recalling some memories, so you get to the point where you've forgotten about your body, and you're entirely in your thoughts. Shift through some random memories and/or thoughts, think of some odd shapes, do some random things
Coke: .
* stony1205 changes topic to 'Telepathy seminar in progress.'
Coke: .
Sp4rkS: .
FrozenFlames: lidless_i: its hard to forget about my body because i know im supposed to be forgetting about my body
FrozenFlames: FrozenFlames: don't try to forget
FrozenFlames: FrozenFlames: just daydream about some memories
FrozenFlames: FrozenFlames: think hard about stuff
FrozenFlames: lidless_i: ok
FrozenFlames: FrozenFlames: you'll naturally forget
Coke: going though memories is making me sad...
peebrain: think of happy memories
Coke: .
FrozenFlames: alright, this is enough time, anyone who is here should check off. if you don't check off, you get kicked for idling in our seminar
lidless_i: .
jaci: .
JoeRoger: .
Coke: .
peebrain: .
lidless_i: .
Bobrobyn: .
* Oneta flies away...
jaci: .
Sp4rkS: .
Oneta: .
FrozenFlames: alright
FrozenFlames: in the future, i dont' need to know your personal feelings about your memoreies (coke) :-)
Coke: .
FrozenFlames: From here, we need to split up into partners. I won't pair you up if necessary, so I'll give you all twenty seconds to fight and war over who gets who as their partner. At time up, whoever is left will be paired up by me, stony, or both.
.....CUT.....
FrozenFlames: Now, there are so many theories going around about psi, and I would rather not delve into them all. I'm simply going to state a few things, you will do them, and you can form your own opinions and theories after the fact, whether they agree or disagree with what I've said
FrozenFlames: basically, do the stuff now, and form your own ideas later. believe what you want from your experience
FrozenFlames: Now, though telepathy does not require a link, it does help greatly. I personally do not tend to use links, but if needed, I'm not afraid to throw one out now and then
FrozenFlames: Linking itself requires not just an article, but an entire book. Or maybe, a series of books. There is a vast variety of links along with different ways they function and form. To attempt explaining them all is too difficult, so I'll just go over two forms today. I will not state exactly WHAT you're doing with these links and HOW they work, just know that you ARE linking in one way or another.
FrozenFlames: I will begin to tell you your next instructions, DO NOT begin until I say, "You may begin NOW".
FrozenFlames: (no need to check off unless i say guys)
FrozenFlames: To start off, one partner (partner A) will just sit and relax. The other (partner B) will clear their mind by whatever method they like best. Counting BACKWARDS from 20-10 often helps.
FrozenFlames: From here, partner B will begin to slowly repeat partner A's nick/name over and over in their head. As you do this, you need to keep in mind the "will" to find this person's mind. As you almost "chant" your partner's name/nick, you should "feel out" for their mind. This should be done entirely tactile, visual visualization does not help.
FrozenFlames: After awhile, you should suddenly "know" that you've found them. Usually I can almost "feel" them in/on the right side of my mind (I do not know why it is the right side, it just is :-P). If your asking how do you "feel" and "do" all this stuff, there is no answer, you just DO
FrozenFlames: Also, when I feel "THEM", it is me feeling a mixture of their psionic signature and their awareness. I'm assuming you know what this is as well, but if you don't, tell me now.
FrozenFlames: As a side note, all this "searching out" and "reaching" for their mind, and "feeling" them is very similar to Remote Viewing. If you've successfully done RV in the past, this should be fairly simple for you. However, rather than using RV coordinates, we're using a person and their mind.
FrozenFlames: Just keep their name in mind while you "reach out" with the intention of finding them. This can take 5 seconds or 5 minutes, take your time. Eventually it should "snap", and you'll get some sort of feeling of them.
FrozenFlames: Though most are used to a form of linking where you feel the person as a separate mind away from your own, with this method, their mind should exist almost within your own. Hopefully, it will be almost as if their mind is a part of your mind, but more on that later.
FrozenFlames: any questions before we begin?
FrozenFlames: yes/no/maybe so?
FrozenFlames: In that case, ou may begin now.
FrozenFlames: *you
FrozenFlames: post any results, comments, questions, etc. in the chat
FrozenFlames: alright, hows it working out for you guys?
peebrain: worked good, got a connection
peebrain: made Oneta feel "anxious"
FrozenFlames: does it feel as i said, almost WITHIN your mind, rather than a seperate "thing"?
FrozenFlames: lol
peebrain: ummmm... depends on how I decide to interpret it... I can push it either inside or outside of my mind
peebrain: right now it's sitting in my chest
Oneta: Yeah
Oneta: :-\
Oneta: Mine too
FrozenFlames: This method freaked me out at first, because I wasn't sure what it was. I kept thinking it was a daydream because the thoughtproccess was within my own. Through this method however, I found some cool things
Oneta: Where I felt it
FrozenFlames: you can push it around usually, yeah, its all an interpretation
FrozenFlames: anyone else have anything to say? if you made some sort of connection, check off
peebrain: .
Oneta: .
FrozenFlames: look at sean, so cooperative and attentive :-)
Oneta: !!!
FrozenFlames: and oneta!
Psychic_Alchemist: *cough teachers pet *cough* :P
Bobrobyn: lol
JoeRoger: .
jaci: .
ANKA: FF, I think you should pair up Easton and PA
ANKA: They got in late
FrozenFlames: sure, sounds good to me
FrozenFlames: and if stony can catch them up :-)
FrozenFlames: alright, we're going to move on now, if you don't have a connection, don't sweat it
Coke: .
FrozenFlames: just relax and try to focus, "reach" out and wait
FrozenFlames: Now, you want to focus on the thought flows and patterns that you feel within their mind. Somewhere within the feeling of them, if you focus on that part of your mind almost as if it is a beat you trance to, you should start to feel the passage of their thoughts.
lidless_i: .
Sp4rkS: .
FrozenFlames: by now, you should be focusing to the point where you forget your body again, this sort of thing happnes a lot IMO
FrozenFlames: Though you may not understand what you "hear", you should still hear the thoughts flowing throughout the surface of their mind. Just like when you're in a crowd and all the noise is incoherent, it should be similar.
FrozenFlames: You may feel pressure in your forehead. If you focus part of your mind on this area, or wherever you feel energy collect, it can help. Focusings or "charging" this area can sometimes improve your scan.
FrozenFlames: Of course, don't let this focus get in the way of your excersise
FrozenFlames: From here, you can learn to "search" out for more specific signals within their mind. Searching deeper, below the surface thoughts and into their mind. This goes without saying, but it takes practice on your own time
FrozenFlames: this is usually a very interesting excersise for me, and extremely productive. I like ot do this sort of thing when i have some time on my hand, in the middle of a focal meditation. i focus on differnet thought flows and patterns, learning how to isolate them and how i can move the proccess throughout my mind
* Oneta is hearing things he hopes is not peebs :-O
FrozenFlames: I personally find sending easier via this method, with their thought flow within your mind, but that is not exactly the topic of this seminar so i won't go into it.
FrozenFlames: peebs: stop thinking so loud ;-)
peebrain: that's like telling an artist to stop painting
Sp4rkS: depends what he's painting.
FrozenFlames: oh so true
FrozenFlames: Now, the partner being scanned, do you notice any sensations?
Bobrobyn: Pressure in the middle of the forhead..."3rd eye" region.
peebrain: the connection was mostly gone, until you reminded me of it
FrozenFlames: the connection from this method seems to be very useful, but fades VERY quickly once attention
FrozenFlames: oooook
FrozenFlames: are you all ready to move on?
lidless_i: i was the scanner but i felt pressure in my forehead
FrozenFlames: check off if you ARE
Sp4rkS: .
peebrain: .
JoeRoger: .
Coke: .
Oneta: .
lidless_i: .
FrozenFlames: lidless_i: normal
lidless_i: k
ANKA: .
FrozenFlames: bob?
Bobrobyn: .
FrozenFlames: alright
Psychic_Alchemist: .
Easton: .
FrozenFlames: Now we need to disconnect. To do so, feel their mind and visualize some sort of connection with your minds, perhaps as a light. Then feel their mind fading from your senses, and visualize the light dimming.
FrozenFlames: In one smooth moment, "push" their mind from your own, visualize the light representing the connection disappearing, and completely forget about them. Put your entire focus on something else.
FrozenFlames: disconnection shouldn't be to difficult
lidless_i: when i visualize dissconecting with the light method my actual vision brightens?!
FrozenFlames: are you asking me or telling me?
peebrain: heh
lidless_i: im telling you
Coke: that's odd
FrozenFlames: nice
FrozenFlames: never heard that one before
lidless_i: well could it be dangerous?
Coke: I doubt it.
FrozenFlames: make sure you light doesn't have a dimmer one it first of all :-)
lidless_i: it doesnt
FrozenFlames: next, no, i doubt it is. if it keeps reoccuring, i might have it checked out, especially if there are other side affects
FrozenFlames: but i'm in no position to give medical advice, thats first and foremost
lidless_i: mabey its just some biofeedback :)
Psychic_Alchemist: heh
FrozenFlames: right
FrozenFlames: once you're done disconnecting, check off please
Coke: .
Psychic_Alchemist: That's like a Mc Donald's worker giving nutritional advice :P
lidless_i: .
Easton: .
Psychic_Alchemist: .
Bobrobyn: .
Sp4rkS: .
JoeRoger: .
jaci: .
FrozenFlames: once your disconnected, its the other partners turn
Coke: .
FrozenFlames: while the other partner is accomplishing the excersise, you guys may like to state any comments you have. anything you noted, etc. or you may not :-)
FrozenFlames: just keep me informed with whats going on, once you've connected, tell me please
Psychic_Alchemist: hmm a rippling feeling
FrozenFlames: define "rippling feeling"
Psychic_Alchemist: a quick rushing and burshing feeling across my field
FrozenFlames: *nod* thats interesting is well. just keep in mind to relax and stay within your mind
FrozenFlames: "reach" out for the sensation of their mind, and when it "snaps", focus on it
FrozenFlames: if you get that ripple again, tell me. though its probably just some normal thing, it interests me
FrozenFlames: alright, if you're ready to move on, check off. if you're NOT ready, put in an exclamation point in the place of a period
lidless_i: .
FrozenFlames: once you put that period in, disconnect
peebrain: .
lidless_i: from there minds or the chat?
Psychic_Alchemist: their minds.
FrozenFlames: theIr minds
lidless_i: ok
Bobrobyn: FF- quick question
Coke: .
FrozenFlames: PM Bobrobyn
Bobrobyn: k
Coke: That was one of the oddest things I've ever done, and that's saying something...
FrozenFlames: Bobrobyn: How're you stupposed to navigate when all you get is static? Bobrobyn: I'm guessing from their mind...like, it's like a big blob of everything, all at once, comming out as static.
lidless_i: me and coke managed to access a few memories of each other is what hes talking about
Psychic_Alchemist: what about that time you got mixed up with pepsi ? :P
FrozenFlames: usually you need to use some focal meditation skills. rather than being forceful, you need to really just relax completely
FrozenFlames: calm down and focus on your intent in the back of your mind
Ejji: Can I ask a question?
FrozenFlames: while "looking" through the static, don't focus on it but pass it on as your own random thoughts, just keeping in mind the intent of your search. usually something will "pop" out at you, and from there you can trace the signal of what caught your attention
FrozenFlames: Ejji:Sure
FrozenFlames: Bob: Thats all I can really say for now, it seems like something that would require another seminar of its own
Ejji: Thank you.. well, you know when.. you see someone in pain by tooth ache or head ache and sometimes you feel it too, it's in your head though?
FrozenFlames: Ejji: Ok
FrozenFlames: What is your question
Ejji: Well, do you think this seminar now could be you influencing them to feel this way, but you don't think you are doing it? It's not a bash, just a question.
FrozenFlames: no i don't
FrozenFlames: though i suppose it is possible
Coke: Hey, well, my head slightly hurts, which it wasn't doing before this seminar...
Psychic_Alchemist: I doubt one psion could affect this many other psions on their own.
Ejji: ..you dont understand.
Psychic_Alchemist: That doesn't seem logically realistic to me.
FrozenFlames: ANKA: rippling effect is most likly lack of focused frequincies
FrozenFlames: ANKA: blled over from TP, to dircet psi energy effect
lidless_i: well ive got to leave bye
lidless_i: sorry
Coke: 'bye, and thanks.
FrozenFlames: Coke: Thats natural as well, try to relax. If it really hurts, just sit out for awhile and drink some....you know it: OJ
Sp4rkS: Bye lidless_i.
lidless_i: your welcome
lidless_i: bye all
Psychic_Alchemist: but oj kill!
Ejji: It's natural to have head pains?
Psychic_Alchemist: *kills
Coke: Ok, thanks.
Psychic_Alchemist: I dont care what the jury says :P
FrozenFlames: Psychic_Alchemist: It is more than possible (Psychic_Alchemist: I doubt one psion could affect this many other psions on their own.)
FrozenFlames: Ejji: From stress, of course
Psychic_Alchemist: That would take a good deal of psi to do though
Ejji: People are easily influenced by their surroundings, its a flaw.
Ejji: Nothing to do with Psi.
FrozenFlames: we'll be moving on now
Ejji: Why:?
FrozenFlames: so disconnect if you aren't already
Psychic_Alchemist: Ejji: part of psionics is mental control, so that seems doubtful.
FrozenFlames: this seminar is going long, so we'll have to hurry. afterwards, practice on your own time. UPC has 4 practices per week
FrozenFlames: Next, we want to try the more commonly known method of scanning. You should already have their "feel", so it should be easier this time. Visualize their body (whether you know what they look like or not) standing in front of you. Remember to visualize EVERTHING from a first person viewpoint. Third person DOES NOT WORK.
Ejji: No.. I mean like, influenced without Psi, just influence.
Psychic_Alchemist: so do I.
FrozenFlames: Ejji: Finish this in a PM please
Ejji: No, forget it, continue.
Coke: aw, but my partner went away.....
FrozenFlames: Next, form a ball of energy, and attach it to your head. Now, with your eyes closed, visualizing your partner's body 10 or so feet in front of you, stretch the psiball into a tentacle towards them.
FrozenFlames: As you stretch the energy towards them, keep in mind the will that you're "reaching" out towards their "feeling". Once it touches them, slowly push it into their mind and let it go, make sure your end is within your mind as well.
Psychic_Alchemist: sorry FF
FrozenFlames: From here, put your focus on the link and keep in mind the will that it is a stream of energy with the intention of focusing the transfer of telepathic information.
FrozenFlames: Psychic_Alchemist: np
Psychic_Alchemist: :)
FrozenFlames: "Feel" the person "through" the link and "feel" what it is meant to do. This method will most likely give a much stronger sensation on the forehead, where the tangible link is connected.
FrozenFlames: From here, spend a nice amount of time pouring mass upon mass amounts of energy into the link. Put it IN the link itself, as well as stream energy THROUGH the link. Visualize it becoming more solid and powerful, and visualize the transfer of thoughts.
FrozenFlames: a lot of this is just conceptual programming. keeping in mind that this is a link is usually enough, so don't sweat that part
FrozenFlames: just work on this now, obviously one partner at a time :-)
FrozenFlames: I'll give you all 2 minutes
FrozenFlames: don't rush, once the time is up, i won't neccessarily move on
FrozenFlames: alright
FrozenFlames: if you're not ready, speak up
Sp4rkS: here here.
FrozenFlames: alright
Coke: my partner left. :(
FrozenFlames: while we wait for Sp4rkS, do the rest of you have any comments? also, anyone else without a partner that can go with Coke?
* Psychic_Alchemist gives coke a can of diet coke to partner with
Coke: yay, a diet coke.
Coke: Could I try my sister, because I know her pretty well...
Coke: *??
Psychic_Alchemist: no, this isn't mississipi, we dont do that here :P
FrozenFlames: Coke: If you want :-)
Coke: ok
FrozenFlames: alright, moving on
Psychic_Alchemist: hmm your right FF, this new method is MUCH stronger
FrozenFlames: From here, you should have a good connection. Now sit back and relax. Lightly focus on the link, and attempt to feel whom it is connected to. This time, you should feel their mind as a separate entity. It should be something that feels much farther away, and you should feel a bit of your awareness focused on something more distant. Keep in mind that, though you feel their mind as an entity separate and farther from your own, thi
FrozenFlames: did that get cut off?
Psychic_Alchemist: yes it did
peebrain: "and farther from your own, thi"
Psychic_Alchemist: entity separate and farther from your own, thi
FrozenFlames: Keep in mind that, though you feel their mind as an entity separate and farther from your own, this method is not necessarily any weaker (or stronger) than the other. It depends on the person.
Coke: .
FrozenFlames: So Psychic_Alchemist, you just noted that it is MUCH stronger. However, I usually prefere the other method. Though this one has a stronger sensation, it isn't neccessarily stronger.
FrozenFlames: Now, from here you may like to try a little quick game. Have one partner (Partner A) focus on a colored shape (square, circle, star, triangle - blue, red, green, yellow). Have the other partner (Partner B) focus on the intent of finding Partner A's surface thoughts.
FrozenFlames: DO NOT FORCE THIS. That is the foremost important rule. You must relax and do not try to "drag" the information out. Simply focus on the feeling of their mind, and keep in mind the intent of finding their surface thoughts.
FrozenFlames: Keep this intent strongly in the back of your mind; for it is what will focus what you receive, it's like picking the channel on a TV. Without the intent, you would receive all the "channels" at once as a blur.
FrozenFlames: Then, begin LIGHTLY "pulling" energy through (not from) the link into yourself. Keep at this, simply focusing on your will, keeping your mind clear. When you have an impression of the thought, go with it immediately. The first instinct is usually correct.
Coke: blue square!
ANKA: Coke, do you need a partener?
Coke: yes
ANKA: Hold on, let me tak some sheilds down
ANKA: Ok, link to me
FrozenFlames: thanks a lot ANKA, you'd probably be the BEST person for him to link to here
FrozenFlames: nothing like participating with somebody who can really help you along and know whats happening
ANKA: Not really I have agressive defenseives against unwated TP
FrozenFlames: so says your post about house shields....
FrozenFlames: back to the seminar, how is this going?
Psychic_Alchemist: we've had success
FrozenFlames: i'm not really looking for success today
FrozenFlames: that comes as a later point of interest, after practice
FrozenFlames: right now, i'm looking for what sensations you guys are getting
FrozenFlames: what you "feel" is "going on"
FrozenFlames: and obviously, any problems
Psychic_Alchemist: energy flowing in and out
FrozenFlames: *nod*
FrozenFlames: alright, this seminar has been going for about an hour now, so lets hurry this up. you guys are more than welcome to check the UPC forums (www.upconline.net) and look at the practice group sticky. we'll most likely be practicing what we've learned from today
FrozenFlames: Now we approach the topic of disconnecting, which is usually more difficult with this form of linking. This must be done smoothly with no mistakes, otherwise a small (or large) portion of the link will remain on some level (there is more than one "level" and "frequency" in which links exist, difficult to explain).
FrozenFlames: First, you must stop the flow of energy through the link. Tactile-wise, you simply "feel" the link becoming "dead" and unused. "Feel" the energy flow stopping completely.
FrozenFlames: Visual-Visualization-wise (my preferred method for this form of linking), I like to see the link as some sort of living attachment, almost like a connecting vine. From there, I visualize all the energy flow stopping completely, and the vine turning brown, brittle, and dead.
FrozenFlames: Next, break the link in one quick movement. Along with my vine/link visualization, I see if decompose into dust at a rapid rate, and dissolve into the ground.
FrozenFlames: Once you stop the energy flow, the feeling on your forehead should dissipate quite a bit. Once you destroy the link, for a split second the entire sensation of being linked should disappear.
FrozenFlames: If you continue thinking about the link for even one second after you feel it disappear, there's a large chance you will reconnect by accident.
FrozenFlames: So at the very moment the link is destroyed, put the entirety of your mind and being on something else. Do some TK, a few pushups, count backwards, ANYTHING you can to completely take your mind off the person and the notion of a link.
FrozenFlames: start once you've thoroughly read it all
FrozenFlames: if you're done, i need to know :-)
Psychic_Alchemist: done
Easton: Completed
ANKA: Why is it wierd?
Sp4rkS: Done.
peebrain: done
ANKA: Wrong Window
FrozenFlames: if anyone's partner says something interesting, you might like to post it in here for the furtherence of fellow students
FrozenFlames: switch partners now, for the last time
stony1205: get their consent first
FrozenFlames: obviously :-) thanks stony
stony1205: tis my job, as I'm not teaching squat rightnow
ANKA: Done
FrozenFlames: also, as the other partner does this excerise, post any comments YOU have as well. and i LOVE questions
FrozenFlames: just as something for you all to read after you're done:
ANKA: Switch as in the reciver now sends?
FrozenFlames: we'll have another seminar on more proper scanning. This was simply an introduction, but there is much much more to it than only this.
FrozenFlames: ANKA: No
FrozenFlames: you should disconnect first
FrozenFlames: then the other person should create the link from scratch
ANKA: Did that
FrozenFlames: then yes, reciever now THINKS, do not send the shape
ANKA: this the squid ball energy link one?
FrozenFlames: yes
FrozenFlames: Back to what I was saying, we'll have another seminar on more proper scanning. This was simply an introduction, but there is much much more to it than only this.
FrozenFlames: You must learn how to search through different levels and frequencies of thought and the mind itself. How to decipher and pick apart what you are receiving. How to weed out the AOL (Analytical OverLay). How to become faster and more efficient, etc. Next scanning seminar, we'll work on some exercises for these various topics.
FrozenFlames: With practice, you'll get to the point where you can find anything you're looking for, though this would take....MUCH... practice
FrozenFlames: once your'e done with the other partner, please tell me. and once again, questions OR comments are welcome
* stony1205 sets mode: +m
stony1205: Just for a sec :P
FrozenFlames: alright, if you have not further questions or comments, i'd like to call this seminar to an end
stony1205: So yeah, I hope eveyone liked this one. I will be scheduling another seminar on shielding soon. Check the homepage and your e-mail for news of the next event. I will be teaching that one.
FrozenFlames: feel free to continue practicing with eachother
* stony1205 sets mode: -m
FrozenFlames: this just means....your friendly, lovely FF will be leaving!
FrozenFlames: :-)
jaci: Thanks for the seminar :)
FrozenFlames: np

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by SunTzu

All of the energy manipulation I have experienced relies upon two concepts; energy and intention. This article is on the intention part of manipulation. This, I think, is one of the easier subjects in all of psionics, once you understand it. I say this, because essentially, you have been doing it all along without ever noticing it. For example, when you create a psi-ball, is it round? If you said yes, then it was programmed to be round, as energy in its natural state is not. There are several approaches to programming. So, now that you have realized that you already know how to program, let's get into what it is. There are several approaches to programming, being conceptual, visual, and tactile (listed in accordance to how often I use them).

Also, a word to the wise, please do not be reading this article if you cannot at least create a psi-ball. Just a thought, but why would you be reading the article on programming psi, if you cannot gather it already?

Conceptual Programming

For those of you that have made a shield, did it stay with you if you walked around? It should have, merely because that is one of the things that you typically associate with a shield. This is conceptual programming. In order to do this, what you have to do is attach a concept along to the energy that you are working with. As you gather the energy, give it focus, give it intention, try to think of what you are gathering the energy for, and what you would eventually want it to do. This is conceptual programming, and is usually the hardest for beginners to grasp, and the one of the easiest for most advanced users. Don't worry newbies, you get used to it, but for now, attempt one of the other forms of programming for now, and rest assured.

On to Visualization!

As you make a psi-ball, what are you thinking that it looks like? You are seeing it as a round ball of energy, and thus it forms to one. In order to program visually, as you create it, see the energy that you control. I.e. watchit form a ball, see it turn, see the room getting colder.

Now, Tactile

As for tactile programming, you have probably already done it with the psi-ball, as well. When you were creating the psi-ball, what were you trying to get it to feel like? Later on as you created psi-balls, did you try to make them hot? Or cold? Doing so is tactile programming, or programming by feel. Essentially what you are to do with tactile programming, is impress the feel upon the energy. Visualize the feel of something (soft/hard, cold/warm, round/pointed, ect.), and focus that intention upon the energy, thinking that thought at it. If you did it right, the energy should respond as you programmed, or told, it to.

Summary

So, in summary, to program a triangle psi-ball that is cold, create a psi-ball, and think of it as a triangle with things you associate with a triangle, or see it forming into a triangle, or feel the points of a triangle. Then think at it the concept of being cold along with things you think of when you hear the word cold, or see it being a colder color (typically white/blue), or think at it the feeling of being cold.

by Devil's Advocate

The first very simple question is, "What is Visualization?" It seems relatively simple. It's forming a picture of what you want to do. The problem is when visualization gets mistaken for programming. The two are not the same. Visualization is the first step in programming. It is not, in and of itself, programming.

The primary purpose of visualization is to fix the idea of what you are attempting to accomplish in your own head, in terms you can easily and simply understand. The human mind is limited by what it can grasp. Now, I am not speaking in the terms of 'we only limit ourselves!' There are limits to everything. Try to actually conceptualize infinity. Intellectually it is easy to say 'it goes on forever', but the actual concept of infinity (the reality of endlessness) is not easy to fully conceptualize.

In the same manner, it is not easy to fully conceptualize psionics, especially for the beginner. Several things get in the way. The intangibility of the medium is the first roadblock. You can't touch telepathy. You can't see empathy. A shield is not something you can box up and give to your mother for Christmas. Telekinesis can be explained away by too many natural phenomena. These things make it difficult for the mind to grasp how what is occurring, works. Visualization, from a practical stand point, is designed to help over come this roadblock.

When a psion visualizes a psionic effect, they are creating a mental metaphor for what they are doing. Let us use a shield as an example. When a psion visualizes a wall between themselves and the outside world, they take the known tangible concept of 'a wall' and apply the same /concept/ to an utterly different mechanism. A wall is a known concept, a known blocking surface. Walls keep the wind and weather out of houses. Walls keep things out of gardens that are not supposed to be there. The visualization of a wall fixes the concept of a barrier into the psion's mind. It is this concept that is then translated into the actual programming process. No classic wall is created, but the concept of blocking something otherwise intangible was applied to a construct and to psionic energy (which form the shield). This is the basic building block for concept programming.

In more complicated settings visualization helps the mind grasp things that are either normally outside the realm of human experience, or are simply too complicated to easily map out step-by-step and still follow. Still using the shield example, you want a shield that will do more than one thing. You want it to block off only unwanted incoming projection and ambient noise. You want one that will redirect unwanted constructs away from you. You want one that constructs can't latch onto unless you want them to, and one that will 'give' a little if something pushes to hard against it, and anything it just can't block it lets through for other shields to deal with. Now, each individual concept is relatively simple to comprehend and follow and program. The whole is harder to juggle in its entirety. You choose the visualization of a finely made silk privacy curtain. It is very tightly woven. There are no loose threads to catch on and it gives rather than trying to resist while redirecting things and people away from you just by being there. This makes the entirety of the concept easier to grasp and easier to keep in mind as a whole as you program the shield. Then you can focus on what parts of that visualization you want to emphasize in the programming, such as a very 'tight weave' to the threads of the shield. (Note: Thread constructs are not a basic set of constructs. They take a great deal of practice to get right. This is not a beginner's shield, but it is a good example.)

Visualization is a useful tool for both beginners and advanced psions. It allows complicated programming to be done quickly, by concept rather than step by step. This has applications beyond constructs. Visualization in telepathy and empathy can achieve the same affect. We do not know the exact mechanisms either empathy or telepathy use to project and receive thought or emotion. This makes it very difficult for the mind to grasp telepathy enough to actually perform it other than on an inefficient reflexive level. Conscious control of the ability of telepathy requires some level of comprehension. The most common visualizations for telepathy are essentially of a 'signal' being sent out from the physical region of the head in a 'direction' to the individual in question. You do not have to know how the signal is getting there, the concept of the 'signal' is real enough and comprehensible enough to your mind that it works.

Psionics is, by definition, almost purely mental. It is what your mind comprehends that happens. Visualization is simply the tool your mind uses to wrap what it doesn't know in terms of what it does. This can lead to many useful additions as the 'concept' is larger than the visualization. For example, a shield that is visualized as faceted may disperse incoming energy, even if it wasn't specifically told to do so. The concept of faceting involves the diffusion and refraction of light. Even if the psion doesn't understand the mechanics behind it, he or she has probably seen a faceted gemstone and the concept is still there. Visualization and concept programming are intrinsically linked, and a clear visualization can save a great deal of effort to a concept programmer, but visualization is not the program, it is simply your mind organizing itself in terms it can understand, so it can act on that organization.

by FrozenFlames

Shelling is the skill of wrapping an extra energy layer around your energy (a psiball for example) and programming that extra energy layer to hold itself together and to also keep any energy that is inside of it, inside. In short, an energy "shell" does the same thing that a physical "shell" does: keeps stuff in. I do not know a single energy manipulator that cannot, and does not, shell. The entire point of creating a construct is to have it do something, and usually that "something" is being done without you focusing on the energy. Occasionally, the energy manipulator will send the energy away, perhaps towards a target.

For example, perhaps the energy manipulator also practices telepathy and empathy. In this case, he wanted to send the thought and feeling of "tiredness" to his sister that lives in California (meanwhile he lives in New York, across the country) because she is having insomnia problems. He can either send the thought for a few minutes until he gets tired of doing it, or he can program a construct to send the thought for him. The construct option, being the most economical decision, is what he would most likely choose to do. So he would make and program the construct. After it was made, he would simply let the construct go and then continue along his daily life. Meanwhile, the construct would go to his sister and send her the feeling of sleepiness all night. Now let us consider the possibility that he never took the time to shell the construct. As soon as he let the construct go, the energy would diffuse into the air, the construct would die, and his energy would have gone to waste. Without shelling, 90% of all energy manipulation wouldn't work.

Density Counts

Before I move onto the "How-To" of shelling, there is something that needs to be addressed: Density. If you're reading this article, chances are that you're a beginner that doesn't know anything about energy manipulation. But now, from the point of this article and on, you're going to have to start realizing some important "laws" of energy. The first and foremost being: Density. In all of energy manipulation, density is better and more preferable than size. This means that - in most situations - a psiball that is large, but not dense, is much worse than a psiball that is small, but very dense.

Don't ask my why this is and how it works, because I don't have the answers to those questions, I simply know that it is true. In relation to this article, this means that your shell would work much better if it was thin and dense than if it large, but not dense. If you did make your shell very large, but with very little energy (so the energy is not densely packed together), it would probably fall apart and let the energy out.

Shelling: How-To

So how do you shell a construct? By now you should be adept in making psiballs and manipulating energy. This translates to: Before you attempt shelling, you should be able to make a decent psiball within three minutes. It would also be a good thing if you can make some psi-cubes and other shapes, so try working on that before moving on. When you create a psiball, you visualize the energy forming into a ball. But for a psi-cube, simply move the energy into a cube shape instead. This is simple for most people, but it helps your energy control, so it is an invaluable practice method for beginners.

To shell something, you first need energy to do it. Begin by creating energy within yourself and moving it around. When you're ready, make a psiball. Try to add as much energy into this psiball as you can, and remember: Density. When you feel good about the amount of energy in the psiball (which should look something like Illustration One), begin to push most of this energy towards the outer rim of the psiball. It should start to look something like Illustrations Two and Three.

You might be wondering how to move the energy as you see in the illustrations. Simple: The same way you moved energy from your stomach, into your hands, and into a ball shape: Visualization - Will - Intent. I'll start you off with a few examples that I use. If your method is visual visualization, the most obvious choice is to use the images you see here in the illustrations. If you want to get creative, you can visualize the energy as snow. As you made the dense psiball, you were "packing" a snowball together. Now you're "pushing" most of the snow towards the edge of the ball. You can even visualize the outer edge freezing into thick, solid ice.

Along the lines of tactile visualization, things get a big harder to describe. You basically want to "feel" the energy creeping towards the edge of the ball. If you want, you can even repeat a phrase over and over in your head (or aloud), to aid you with the visual and/or tactile visualizations. The phrase may be something like, "All the energy is moving towards the edge, all the energy is moving towards the edge, all the energy is....etc.". Or maybe, "I am pushing 90% of the energy in this psiball towards the outer rim, I am pushing 90% of the....etc.". Experiment and do what works.

After you have moved most of the energy towards the outside, as seen in Illustration Three, you want to start forming this part into a shell (as seen in Illustration Four). If you're a visual type person, visualize the energy going from the image you see in Illustration Three, into the image you see in Illustration Four. Remember, your will/intent is a huge factor in all of this, so while you are forming the shell, you need to be thinking strongly about what the shell will do. Think about how the shell is going to hold firmly together, and how it will keep in all the energy inside of it.

For all you tactile people out there, I have a few tactile visualizations as well. Have you ever poured candle wax on your hands or dipped a finger in a container of hot wax? Did you feel the wax slowly hardening? That is a feeling we want to replicate. You can also just use your imagination and create the feeling of something else. If you were using the snow-packing method, you can try visualizing the energy as water or snow and "feel" the outer edge freezing and hardening into ice. The main goal here is to feel the outer energy hardening into a firm shell that will hold all the energy together and inside.

As before, actually more so, repeating a phrase over and over in your head (or aloud), can greatly aid you. A phrase you may like to use would be something along the lines of, "I am forming the energy into a hard shell that will hold itself and the energy inside of it together, I am forming the energy into a hard shell that will hold itself and the energy inside of it together, I am....etc.". You may even like the idea "talking" to the energy. With this example, something like this may work, "You are hardening into a firm shell and you will contain all the energy inside of you, you are hardening into a firm shell and you will....etc.". Feel free to try out what works. Remember, your intent is everything.

After you think you've successfully formed the shell, add energy into the psiball again. Because you used up most of the energy in the psiball to form the shell, the energy inside the shell should be strong and dense, but the energy inside the psiball should be very weak. Add energy the same way you did when you made the psiball. Just visualize the energy going through the shell and becoming "locked" inside, then keep adding more and more psi until your satisfied with the amount you have.

Side Notes and Tips:

A little "extra" you may want to add in is a timer or self-destruct sequence. One thing you must realize is that energy programming (the shell), works just like computer programming. It does exactly what you tell it and will not adapt unless you give it adoption commands. This means that if you program it to hold energy in, as soon as it does that (even if it is for a split second) it may think its job is over and will die out. This calls for something extra. One method is to tell the energy to follow out its programming indefinitely, it will then last until it gets destroyed or until it eventually degrades and dies out. Another method is giving it a timer: Tell the energy to last for five minutes (or some other time), and it will hold together for five minutes (or whatever that other time is) and then automatically die out. Lastly there is the self-destruct sequence. You can tell it to survive until you snap your fingers (or some other physical, mental, or verbal command) and then it will survive until you do so. Visualization ideas are up to you. Try visualizing a timer sinking into the psiball and merging with it. Be creative and do what works for you. I will delve deeper into these aspects in my Programming articles (as this is more on the lines of Programming, not simple Shelling).

How Do You Know It's Shelled?

Well I'm guessing you can't scan energy yet, seeing that you're a beginner. So how can you be sure you shelled the psiball? There are two ways:
(1.) Put the psiball down somewhere and leave it for a few minutes. Come back and see if you can still feel it.
(2.) Have another (,.more experienced) person to scan it for you.

The first method is easier, but less reliable. The reason being that because you're a beginner, you probably aren't that sensitive. Thus, you may not be sure if you're imagining it, or if you're really feeling the energy. Also, if you do feel it, there is a chance it is your brain tricking you into thinking that it is there when it really isn't. The second, assuming the scanner is experienced, is much more reliable. However, it might be a bit harder to get somebody to scan your construct for you. The best way to go about this is to ask the person politely in the chat, explaining what you want and why you want it. If they say "no", you can pose the question, "Will anyone else help me out?" But if nobody answers, then stop right there. The last thing we want is people pestering us. You're not the only one to ask this, so take into account that maybe we just scanned for somebody else, that we're having a bad day, etc.

Conclusion

One of the two big rules in psionics is: "Experiment!" and "Keep Trying!". So if it doesn't work, keep working at it and try out different things. Be creative. Hopefully this article gave you some good ideas to work with, but sometimes it's just best to make up your own visualizations. Shelling a construct is one of the most important things in Energy Manipulation. If a building doesn't have a proper foundation, it will crumble to the ground. Psionics works the same way; if you do not have a proper grasp of the basic skills, you won't be able to move on. The skills you learn in the beginning are built on later, so work at this with perseverance. Keep your goal in mind and think about the future - how good you can be. Practice hard, stay safe, and remember: Experiment with your own visualizations and methods.

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Cullen: Hello everyone and welcome to my second class on Energy Manipulation
Cullen: FrozenFlames will be handling questions today
stony1205: `voice FrozenFlames
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Cullen: so please direct questions to him Via Pms
* FrozenFlames waves
Cullen: In the last class, we covered a basic method of generating psi
Cullen: creation of a shelled psiball
Cullen: and attaching basic constructs to physical objects
Cullen: Today, we will spend about the first half of the class working on simply moving energy around in more complex ways
Cullen: and the second part working on generating multiple shelled psiballs
Cullen: any questions on what we will be doing?
Cullen: Alright then, lets begin
Cullen: everybody gather up some psi and store it in your chest
Cullen: similar to how we did it last time (except you don't have to shake your hands, unless you really need to to remember the sensation)
Cullen: let it grow there and spread throughout your whole body
Cullen: feel the warmth of it
Cullen: once you have what you feel to be a good amount, PM frozen with a "ready"
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stony1205: PM all questions and comments to FrozenFlames, snyper
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Cullen: alright
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Cullen: now that you have a good amount, like last time ,move it to whichever hand you feel most comfortable with
Cullen: inside your body, move it around.
Cullen: from hand to hand
Cullen: down to feet
Cullen: and back up
Cullen: all the time keep adding energy to it
Cullen: let it build
Cullen: once you feel you have warmed up enough in this way, PM frozen with a "ready"
Cullen: good
Cullen: go ahead and move it back to your main hand
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Cullen: alright
Cullen: now move the energy out of your hand, into just a semi-cohesive blob of psi in the air in front of your palm
Cullen: once you have that, picture the psi like water
Cullen: let it flow around your hand. moving around it clock wise in a flow
Cullen: but never touching it
Cullen: just flowing outside your hand
Cullen: and around it
Cullen: from here, allow the flow to move up your arm, but still away from it
Cullen: move it entirely while it is outside your body
Cullen: let it flow up an down your arm in a band, as a snake would
Cullen: once you feel you can do that well, PM frozen either a "ready" or any questions you might have
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FrozenFlames: 01,0701,00feel free to ask me questions whenever you feel the need as well, not just when cullen says
Cullen: yes, please do
FrozenFlames: 01,00flyboy: I can't move it up my arm but my hand is freezing
FrozenFlames: flyboy: it seems that it is only staying in my hand
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Cullen: it takes focus to control the movement of the psi
Cullen: you have to know how it is going to move, before it will
Cullen: therefor try moving it back into your hand, and forming the psi-glob in your palm again
Cullen: then work on moving it around your hand, and then up your arm.
Cullen: Alright, save flyboy, let us move on
Cullen: now move the flow of energy all around your body, around the outside of it
FrozenFlames: 01,00KMiller once said something like, "those fools think its all passive, its not, grab the dang energy and move it! force it."
Cullen: make it longer, so it can stretch out
Cullen: make it shorter
Cullen: make it thicker, make it thinner
Cullen: just play around with it
Cullen: feel it move over your body
Cullen: feel the sensations over the parts it passes over
Cullen: if you wish, try adding more energy and split it into two
Cullen: keeping track of two takes more focus than one (obviously) and is a good practice
Cullen: make them move in different ways
FrozenFlames: 01,00Anyone who isn't idling PM me with a number sign (#)
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FrozenFlames: 01,00and if you're only observing, no participation, PM me with an exclamation point !
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Cullen: alright
Cullen: if you have all been having fun with that, now try to do four if you can
Cullen: control precisely how each band of energy moves around you
Cullen: try pushing them farther away from your body while still controlling the motion
Cullen: then bring them back closer
Cullen: please PM frozen with how many you were able to control
Cullen: alright
Cullen: very good everyone
Cullen: now is when we will take a five minute break
Cullen: go grab some water or OJ or Gator-Aid
Cullen: or whatever
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FrozenFlames: 01,00later no one
Cullen: Alright
Cullen: glad you all enjoyed that last exercise
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Cullen: lets move on
Cullen: now then, lets go back over the shelling method from last time
Cullen: gather energy
Cullen: make a psiball
Cullen: make a "cloth" of psi programed to let psi through one way, but hold it in the other
Cullen: then wrap the cloth around the ball, and let it harden as cheese cloth does after being dipped in starch
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Cullen: once you have made one, PM Frozen. Or send him questions
FrozenFlames: 01,00whoops, sorry, I'm back. i was doing the first exercise. Got up to twenty.
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FrozenFlames: 01,00:-P
FrozenFlames: 01,00they were the weakest little snakes you'd ever see
Cullen: anyay, back on topic
Cullen: alright, now this is going to be a bit more interesting
Cullen: gather up a large amount of energy and move it in front of you
Cullen: making a very large area filled with raw energy
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Cullen: pick out anywhere from 3-6 points inside this large area
Cullen: and just have all the psi congeal onto those points
Cullen: making each one a psiball
Cullen: then create a second large sheet of psi
Cullen: and program it the same way you did the cloth
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Cullen: once you have your field of psiballs, and your large cloth, separate the cloth into equaly sized segments, numbering the same among as the psiballs you made
Cullen: wrap them all up simultaneously
Cullen: PM comments about this exercise to Frozen please
Cullen: or questions
Cullen: AtlaRedux askers: Sorry for nagging you again...I found it easier to "cut" the ball in 3 pieces and then concentrating them even more...is that wrong? Also, the second cloth I stretched over the top field until it kind of "broke" down onto the other, folding in equally large pieces...I got the feeling I do it in a cheap way...
Cullen: this is a very good question
Cullen: there are several ways of doing an exercise like this
Cullen: separating one large psiball into smaller ones, and then adding more energy is as valid as creating a bunch from scratch
Cullen: the only difference is how you focus, and how you choose to go about it
FrozenFlames: 01,00sometimes we do things the slow way, for the point of the exercise. but it all depends on what we're doing
Cullen: excatly
Cullen: doing things a slower way, or a more difficult way in learning, makes it easier to do it other ways
FrozenFlames: 01,00i'm willing to take a quick glance at anyone who asks
Cullen: alright
Cullen: any other major questions?
FrozenFlames: 01,00if you're ready to move on, PM me. if you're not, thats fine too, PM me as well
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Cullen: Ok, time for the last thing today
Cullen: and that will be focusing on sensitivity
Cullen: when i say "go" i want everyone to close their eyes, and then do the following
Cullen: gather up a large amount of energy, and branch it out from you, creating an even field of psi spreading out as far as you can send it
Cullen: then feel your way through the field. feel for where the energy intersects any tangible surfaces, like desks and floors
Cullen: any questions on what we are about to do?
Cullen: alright then, "go"
FrozenFlames: 01,00nobody PM me for at least 30 seconds
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FrozenFlames: 01,00and then you can PM again
FrozenFlames: 01,00nobody PM me for at least 30 seconds
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FrozenFlames: 01,00and then you can PM again
FrozenFlames: 01,00alright guys, I'd like to see some progress PMs
FrozenFlames: 01,00i'm looking at all of you, but I'd still like to know what you have to say
stony1205: This music is rather depressing, now that I think about it...
Cullen: ok, good job everyone. That was a tough exercise
Cullen: that is as far as we are going today
Cullen: Homework
Cullen: I would like you all to work one the energy snaking exercise
Cullen: try to do that at least once a day
Cullen: and if you can work on moving energy around you in different paterns almost constantly during a day
Cullen: it is good practice and builds the more you do it
Cullen: experiment with different patterns
Cullen: also, please do the multiple psiball exercise a couple of times before the next class
Cullen: thank you all for coming, this concludes today's class.

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Cullen: First off we are going to do a basic warm up exercise
Cullen: Everyone just relax, stretch out a little, and get comfortable
* FrozenFlames raises hand
Cullen: What we are going to do, is draw/create energy, pool it, move it around, and then make a couple of basic psiballs
Cullen: FrozenFlames asked" If one were to trance, would now be the time?
Cullen: If you want to meditate or trance, just try to clear your mind for a minute... we will continue in one minute
Cullen: while we wait, again, please direct all questions to Mind via PM
Cullen: Ok, minds clear, lets get down to the first basic exercise
Cullen: Please wait until i say "begin" to start
Cullen: the exercise goes as follows:
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Cullen: 1. Shake your hands, not too hard, but strongly for about 30 seconds.
Cullen: 2. when you stop, your hands will tingle, this is blood flowing too them, but gives you a guide on what to feel
Cullen: 3. draw that tingling sensation up your arms, into your shoulders, and into your chest
Cullen: 4. let that sensation grow and warm you, feel it continue to grow untill it is within your entire body from head to toe.
Cullen: now please begin
Cullen: please PM me when you are holding the energy within your body
Cullen: a simple "ready" is fine
Cullen: Ok, that looks to be about everyone
Cullen: next condense all of that energy into one hand, whichever your prefer
Cullen: keep producing more energy in your chest as you do that, and feed that into that hand as well
Cullen: once you feel a strong amount of energy in that hand, move it to your other hand
Cullen: pass it back and fourth a couple of times, all the while adding to it from the energy growing in your chest
Cullen: then move it to each of your feet
Cullen: and alternate between feet and hands
Cullen: once you feel you have a strong control over where the energy is, please PM me another ready
Mind: SNG wants to know if there is a certain way to position hands
Cullen: Whatever is comfortable will work fine
Cullen: as long as you are not tense
Cullen: ok, now move the energy back into whatever hand you started with
Cullen: Picture in your mind a perfect sphere
Cullen: look at every aspect of it, the smooth surface, how it would catch light from the sun or a light bulb
Cullen: maybe even rotate it around in your mind
Cullen: once you have a good picture of it, flow the energy inside your hand into your palm, and 'feel' the sphere form out of the psi
Cullen: once you have a smooth sphere of psi, PM me with a ready, if you are having any trouble, PM mind with questions
Cullen: Alright, that seems to be working well. Congratulations on the psiballs.
Cullen: Now, keep an energy flow going into it while you hold it in your hand
Cullen: but don't let it get any bigger, let it get denser
Cullen: once you feel you have it dense enough, create a second flow of energy into your other hand.
Cullen: make sure your psiball stays intact while you do this
Cullen: with the second flow
Cullen: create a smaller psiball
Cullen: once you have the smaller ball, change its shape the same way you made it a sphere
Cullen: change it into a cloth
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Cullen: Because Mind has to go, from this point on please relay questions to Frozen
Cullen: once you have the Psi in a cloth shape
Cullen: feel in your mind an effect of psi being drawn from one side of the cloth to the other. Think of it as a one way gate
Cullen: energy will flow through one way, but not back the other way
Cullen: once you have impressed this into the psi-cloth, wrap it around the psiball in your other hand.
Cullen: orient it so that energy will be pulled 'in' towards the ball, and not let out of the ball. Then change the psicloth into a hard shell
Cullen: as an example, think of it as cheese cloth. When you starch it it is all wet, but if you put it around a balloon and let it dry, it grows hard
Cullen: and maintains that shape
Cullen: once you have it nice and hardened, push a flow of energy into the ball. The ball should grow denser
Cullen: also, psi should not leek out
Cullen: This is a shelled psiball. Once you have it, please PM Frozen with a Ready. Frozen, please tell me once everyone has checked in.
Cullen: Alright, good job everyone
Cullen: so, now we have one shelled psiball. Now practice changing the shape a little. Picture different shapes for the ball, and change the shape ofthe shell
Cullen: Feel that shape with your hands. Run them over any rigs or points.
Cullen: I recommend trying cubes, Pyramids, and dodecahedrons
Cullen: (the last one is a joke )
Cullen: Now i am going to recommend a 3 minute break
Cullen: go ahead and drink some Gatorade or water if you want to
Cullen: or just relax
* FrozenFlames shakes his head at his annoying dog sniffing his psiballs and goes back to eating pasta....
jaci: lol
no_one_2000: Mmm, pasta
Cullen: ok, back to the next part of the class
Cullen: Everybody, please make three shelled psiballs now
Cullen: PM Frozen with a ready when you have them...well... ready
Cullen: *also grab a penny or a plastic cup or a pen or something*
Cullen: No one asks no_one_2000: Where are we gonna put all three? I only have two hands Should I like... set 'em on the table or something? They'll keep there if I do that, right?
Cullen: Go ahead and place two of them on a table or desk, they should stay there. keep one in your hand, and the object you picked in your other hand
Cullen: Please get your psiballs ready
Cullen: Ok,
Cullen: now take your object in your other hand and study it a bit, flow some of your energy through it.
Cullen: once you have a 'feel' for the object
Cullen: take one of your shelled psiballs, and change the shelling to the shape of the object
Cullen: make it identical in shape and size
Cullen: shrink it down if you have to
Cullen: then move it so that the psi-shape and the object occupy the exact same space
Cullen: once they are together, visualize the psi-shape and the object merging into one. So that the psi is part of the object, intermixed between all its atoms and molecules
Cullen: if you want a sample visualization, think of it as a zipper with the psi as one side, and the object as the other. When you "zip" it onto the object, they form one solid piece
Cullen: if it doesn't work out the first time, discard the psi-shape and pick up afresh psiball
Cullen: and try it again
Cullen: Once you succeed, PM frozen with a "Done"
Cullen: Alright... so it seems like the majority of you were successful
Cullen: Congratulations
Cullen: Just so you know, if you want to keep track of a psiball, you can "zip" part of it to a desk or table so that you know where it is
Cullen: then just "unzip" it and you can take it with you
Cullen: that way only a small part is zipped on, and you can find your psiballs when you are trying to practice with several
Cullen: Alright, now the part you have all be dreading... Homework
Cullen: I am going to ask that everyone makes at least five psiballs a day. Try to manipulate energy inside your body as much as possible.
Cullen: Also, try to flow energy around outside your body
Cullen: and the last thing is, try to attack psiballs to at least three different objects by the next class
Cullen: If you had trouble doing it, just keep trying, and we will go over the last part of it in the next class
Cullen: Thank you all for coming, this concludes the class

by Stony1205

In the psionic world today, it is important to protect one's self. In an area seen as non-existent, it is hard to find information on these various topics. Many people are now introducing themselves to psionics, and they need protection from various dangers. This protection resides in the form of shields. I find shields to be the most fascinating of all constructs. Their uses are limitless, and there is always something new you can do with them. Hosted in this article is my simple way of making a bubble shield. Note: In order to make any shield, you must be able to make a dense and long-standing psiball.

Let's get started. First, we need to decide on a purpose for our shield. The objective should be simple and clear to you. For this demonstration, let's use this: Keep out all outside energies, and keep deliberate energies inside. Now that we have our objective, we can begin creating the actual shield.

Start by drawing energy and moving it around your body. You don't have to send it to anywhere specific, just move the energy around you. Don't push it, just let it flow like a small stream. Do this for about five to ten minutes or until you feel a strong, steady flow. Now move the energy up and out of your head, spouting it randomly like a water fountain. This will get you to feel what it's like to have mass energy rushing past your head. Warning!: If you feel lightheaded or sick at any time, stop immediately! Next time just move the energy more slowly. Keep moving the energy past your head until you achieve another steady flow.

Now it's time to create the sphere. Most shields have a round egg like shape to them, sort of like a force bubble. However, some shields rest on your skin. It's up to you what you want to do, just be sure to leave enough elbow room in your shield so you don't feel claustrophobic. Now, take the energy coming out of your head and begin to visualize it falling down and collecting at the floor. Picture the energy taking form of a bubble around you, one piece at a time. I sometimes picture my energy orbs as bricks stacking up and becoming one solid wall, but you're free to picture whatever you wish. While you are doing this, concentrate hard on your objective from before. Will the shield to do this intention and keep adding energy. When your shield surrounds you in an egg shape, add more energy to make it denser (just like the psiball!). Keep thinking on your intention!

The last step of this process will take some Will Power. What is will power? Ok, here's an example: Have you ever wanted something to eat right before dinner, but you stop yourself because it's not right? That's a (bad) example of will power. You force yourself to do something that you otherwise wouldn't do. In this case, you must WILL you shield to stay with you, and keep solid. Just visualize it staying with you and talk a little mean to it.

There, you've made a shield! That wasn't SO bad now was it? To keep your shields up, you'll need to add more energy to them every day. This is called regeneration. (duh!) If you ever want to get rid of your shield, picture it just disintegrating. If you take it down in one fell swoop, you'll end up with a monster of a headache. If you didn't get a shield the first time, try, try again! This takes lots of practice to get perfect. If you have ANY questions, please feel free to e-mail me at: psionline@gmail.com

by Stony1205

I can still remember when I made my first PsiBall. Ahh the good 'ol days. Being a new Psion was quite a lot of fun actually. I found it so exciting, learning all these new and weird things. But that's enough of my babbling. I suppose your here because you wish to know how to form PsiBalls. This may be your first psychic experience, it may not, either way, I'm going to take things nice and slow so you can follow along.

What is a PsiBall?

A psiball is nothing more than, well, a ball of psychic energy. This web site's focus is mainly on Energy Manipulation (Psiballs, shields etc), so naturally you'll need to know these. You can do many things with a psiball. For instance, you can program it to follow your dog around, or bounce up and down, etc. The ideas are limitless. Now there are 3 main things that go into forming a psiball.

-Location--Drawing Energy--Formation--

Location

Let's start with our location. You can make a psiball anywhere you like. For instance, you could make it on the president's desk, your mother's coffee maker, Uzbekistan, or the North Pole. It doesn't really matter. However, most people choose their hands to start because it is easier to do. Now, if you choose your hands, there are many positions you can put them in. I suggest putting them like your trying to cover a baseball with both your hands. (The inside will be ball shaped) Once you have decided where you want to put your hands, we can now learn to picture the psi.

Drawing Energy

Now we come to a difficult part. In order to successfully manipulate psi, you have to picture yourself doing it. It's sort of like playing pretend. All you have to do is picture it. Now you can picture psi energy as anything you like. It can be lightning, orbs, cubes, or even cellular phones. Once you have a picture in your mind, you can begin to draw energy.

"Where does this 'energy' come from?" Nobody knows. Some scientists (and most psions) think that this energy is nothing more than waste from the nervous system. This energy flows to an area just below the diaphragm , where it is stored for later use, or removal. However, there is still a belief that energy comes from the planets. I think it comes from our spines, but that's just my opinion. You can believe what you wish.

Now on to using this energy. Drawing energy is rather simple. Just picture your energy coming through your body. Don't just try to see it, give it a sound, a smell, a texture, anything that will make the picture in your mind become more realistic. Picture this energy moving through your body at a high speed and spouting out through the top of your head.

Formation

This is the part many people seem to have questions about. They don't really know if they've formed one. This is MY step by step process of how I do it. Begin to draw energy like in the last step. Get the energy moving fairly well. When you feel you have a good flow, begin moving the energy down your arms and into your hands. Picture that energy zapping out of your hands into a small ball. Keep the energy going in at all times. When you think you have enough, don't stop, keep adding more. Are you done adding? NO, keep adding a little bit more. Add until you can't fit in any, then add a tad bit more. Continue this rigorous adding until your hands can no longer stay still. You will find that the energy beginning to take a shape, and push your hands as it gets bigger. You may also feel tingling, or fuzziness, heat, or even coolness. If you're REALLY lucky you may see waves or perhaps a faint spark. These are all signs that you've made a psiball!

You can continue to make your psiball even stronger by adding to its density. I picture the ball squishing under lots of pressure into a smaller ball. While you are doing this, keep adding energy. (Note: you are not physically moving the ball. It must be done mentally or your ball may be crushed.)

It is now time to let your psiball vanish. All you have to do is let go. If you failed to make a psiball, don't give up. Some people have an easier time than others do. Just KEEP PRACTICING! You'll eventually get it! If you have any questions please e-mail me: psionline@gmail.com

by PaleHorse

Some of you may have noticed the same thing that I have. One of the biggest problems most people have in psionics is a lack of focus and concentration. For this article I will be discussing some exercises which have proven to be very helpful in fixing this problem. Exercise One: "Slide-Show"

• I call this exercise slide-show because it is basically a series of images.
• Step One: Make a list of objects that you can easily visualize. IE: apple, car, ball, and bike
• Step Two: Memorize the list, and be sure you can visualize the objects on it.
• Step Three: Find a nice peaceful place where you wont be disturbed for at LEAST 15-20 minutes.
• Step Four: Start at the top of your list. With your eyes closed, visualize the image as clear as you can and hold it for as long as you can.
• Step Five: As soon as you loose focus on the image continue on to the next image on the list. Continue until you have exhausted the list. You are done for this session.

Exercise Two: "Rainbow"
This exercise is exactly like the one before it EXCEPT that you, and this should be obvious, use colors instead of images. Other than that, it operates on the exact same principles. Move from one to the next until you have exhausted them all.

Music
I shall now discuss the topic of music and why it helps us focus.

Well, let me tell you; but first, I want to make it clear that music does not help everyone, some people find it to be an annoyance. Now, music helps us focus mainly because we can identify our own thoughts to the beats and rhythms which the music provides us. This is much like the identifying between beat and thoughts in telepathic pulse-sending.

Now it is time for my personal recommendations. I recommend doing the two exercises on a rotating daily schedule. This means that one day you do Exercise one, and the next you do exercise two. After a week, try to do them with music; use different forms of music. If you see that your results have slipped, or have not changed stop using the music. However if your results have gotten better, more power to you, turn the volume up and get lost in focus....

Thanks to EverSoSleepy and SawyerHickory for their help.

Peace

by Cullen

Here is the sequel to my first article on Energy Manipulation. Before trying the things in this article, I ask that you are able to make a strong psi-ball within fifteen minutes. The practice ideas that I am going to go over require some basic skill with energy. Also, please remember, if at any time you feel light headed or ill in any way, please stop, take a break, and try again more slowly.

Because there is so much that I want to cover, I am going to split this article up into a few sections. The topics are not in extreme detail, but give the reader some information to play with.
- Advanced Manipulation: Gaining control and sensitivity
- Advanced Psi Balls: Constructing/Programming
- Advanced Shielding: Different Methods and Shield Types

Advanced Manipulation: Gaining control and Sensitivity

In my experience, plain psi manipulation is one of the most overlooked of the psi abilities, probably because people assume it to be more or less useless. This analysis is very wrong. Basic energy manipulation has come in handy to me more than any of the other skills I have. By increasing sensitivity, you can increase your senses to go beyond sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste, to detect things you would be unable to before. As you try to learn more and more advanced techniques, you need to work out some kind of basic training schedule. What you do and when, I will leave up to you, but some things any good exercise should have include:

1. Drawing: Generate as much psi as you can, and then attempt to push the limit. This is a very important part, but could also be considered the most dangerous. When doing this you have the greatest risk of getting a light to severe headache, or even worse side effects. Take it slow! By doing this, however, you will develop your ability to draw on psi easily, learn your limit, and improve upon how much energy you can draw. Over time, you will have access to more and more psi, as your body adjusts to the demand. It is like a muscle that you need to exercise, but I would recommend only doing this every other day or so until you get good at controlling the amount of energy. Please do not push yourself hard in the beginning, when you're just starting. That's when your body needs to adjust the most.

2. You should always practice psi balls. No matter how advanced you get, make as many psi balls as you can without over-exerting yourself. This is important in gaining control.

3. You should practice whatever skill you are currently working on. Try it a few times. Once you can do it, practice it on a regular basis. If you don't keep up your skills, they will degrade.

4. Cool-down. Take a few minutes after practice to shut down stop all psychic activity and just relax.

That is a basic exercise. It hits all the bases, and will almost definitely help you in improvement, but tailor it to your time constraints.

Now then, sensitivity. This is a very important skill to develop. There are different kinds of sensitivity, but for the purposes of this article, I am going to define it as the ability to feel/detect your, and other's, psi energy. A good way to practice this is to have two people and three objects (juggling balls, plastic soda caps, something tangible.) What you should do is have one person charge or focus energy into one of the objects, then have the other person feel in which one it resides. When just starting use a relaxed hand and move it over each one to feel for the psi. Once you have developed your abilities further, you can focus on it from farther away and determine which one has the psi. (Note: Remember to clean up the psi after each try or else you will get mixed readings from the residual energy.) Keep trying to make it harder as you get better to improve you sensitivity in this area.

A useful tech is to make a large energy field around your body, create a large sphere of loose energy as far out as you can make it, then fill in the place between it with loose energy, almost like a webbing. Use this net to gather information about your surroundings, where people are, the lay of the land. The better you get, the more precise information you will be able to obtain. I always keep my field running programmed to warn me of danger. While I haven't gone over programming yet, I thought you should know that this field has saved my life a couple of times, and kept me out of car wrecks even more. That pretty much sums up my basic energy portion of the article. Next comes Advanced Psiballs and programming.

Advanced Psi Balls: Constructing/Programming

As asked before, I need you to be able to create a strong psi ball within fifteen minutes. Now, because strong is different for different people, I will try to define it. For you, a strong psi ball should require a high level of concentration, and most of the energy you can control at once. If you have been practicing what was in the last section for a while, you probably might notice that it takes nearly no concentration to form a basic psi ball. But to someone just starting out, it could take lots of concentration and most of their controllable energy in order to make the same psi ball. Everything is relative to the one doing the work.

You have probably heard about programming either from the title of this section, or countless other articles on the web. And some people might think, "Wow, that sounds hard!" Well, that is both true and false. Whenever you make a psi ball, you are programming, albeit on a low scale, and generally with very little skill. So, going through the steps you go through to create a psiball is also very useful for making more complex constructs. When making a construct, it is important to know exactly what you want the construct to do before you begin. You need to know what kind of structure it needs to have, what each component will do, in what order you will create it, and how you will use it after it is made. A good practice for this is creating a construct that is bound to a small object. I did one recently with a bottle cap. Here is a walk-through of a good practice for doing this. It is good to practice each component of the process separately when you are just starting out.

1. Know what you are doing: I am sitting looking at the bottle cap. I am going to create a psiball, attach it to the bottle cap, and add a final layer that will hold the energy and keep it from bleeding off.

2. Gather energy: I now gather enough energy to complete the first part of my construct.

3. Create the first layer: I now form the psiball. I picture a ball in my mind and place it between my hands, I feel the energy form into the ball, and continue to add energy until it is strong enough to my liking.

4. Attaching the psiball: I pick up the object in one hand while holding the psiball intact with my mind. I now overlay the psiball on the bottle cap and condense it to the shape of the cap. I pick several (three usually works well for me) points and I envision the energy attaching to those points and becoming solid there. I focus this thought on each of the three points until the psi holds there. (Remember to keep your focus)

5. Finishing: Now I gather another large amount of psi. I form it into a shell around my construct, and program (think the structure into it) it to hold form and hold energy.

That is all there is to attaching energy to an object, and forming a decent construct in the process. Many times, you will need to work through each part. Once you have completed the task a number of times, you will find it is possible to set quick keys of a sorts. You can know that certain phrasees or visualizations make a certain construct or add a certain effect to the psi. These are VERY useful when trying to multitask and create complex constructs.

If you want to create more complex constructs, you will need to practice basic ones a lot in order to build up experience. Once you are able to use the quick commands to do things such as creating a psiball, or forming a shell to keep it solid without perpetual concentration, you should start experimenting (carefully of course) with different kinds of constructs. You can in fact give these imbedded constructs different attributes. Stony added constructs to a deck of cards, each card with a different construct.* (see below) I have done this to a few everyday items. With every ability you gain, you will be able to use it in other parts of psionics, so keep practicing and learning new things.

Some examples of things to try:

A ring or item that affects chance: I have done this.

An item that glows (flared construct): haven't done this yet.

An item that gives a psychokinetic push: Haven't done this yet.

An item that increases mental acuity: Done it to a limited degree. Still need to verify the results.

There is my article on advancing through Energy Manipulation. I hope you learned something, so, until my next article, practice and be safe.

*This project will have an article all to itself later on. Signed: Stony1205

by Cullen

Psi, or Bioplasma is an energy form, or particle, that modern science has yet to explain. Some say it is a side effect from nerves firing. Other say it is a universal energy field. Me, I dont know, what I do know is that it is there, and you can do neat stuff with it.

Now then, what you all probably came here to read: about how to start manipulating psi. Well, first things first. What does psi feel like? Well, psi feels however you brain interprets it. Most people tend to feel it as a slight tingling. Some feel a temperature change (hot or cold). Those are the most common feelings that accompany the presence of psi. Now then, I would like it if you could slowly move your dominant hand (the one you write with) over your non-dominant (the other one) forearm (that place between your elbow and your wrist). Have it about an inch off it, and make sure you don't touch the little hairs on your arm. Feel for any change where the hand is. It will probably feel like a VERY slight tingling sensation. You may or may not feel it. If you do, good for you!. No, really. It means that your natural energy field is slightly stronger then a lot of people's, and you have at least some semblance of sensitivity (unless you mistakenly touched the hairs on your arm, in which case you are just feeling that.) Anyway, now for the part where you get to do your first energy manipulation.*Screams of joy from the few people who read this far down.*

Now then, once you can fairly easily get the energy up your arms, try moving it into your chest. Once you can do this, feel it pool there. Then feel it grow. Feel the warmth of it. Let it grow to all your extremities (arms/legs). Once you can do this well, give yourself a pat on the back. You just manipulated psi energy inside your body. *Do not pass this point if you are unable to do everything listed above.

Ok, now, assuming that you listened to that last statement, you are ready for something a little harder. This time you are going to attempt to get that energy moving farther. Come on, You know it looks goofy, I know it looks goofy, and what would your friends think if you went around all day shaking your hands out, trying to manipulate energy? You have probably noticed by know that I am picking up the pace. This doesn't mean that once you can move psi energy up your arms you can do anything, it just means you got the very basics down. You will not become psion overnight, enough said. Now what I would like you to do is feel for that tingly feeling around you. Try and move your hand near some wood, or some metal that people are commonly around (like a door/doorknob.) Move your hand towards it, and feel for that feeling. Once you feel it, try and create it in your chest, or in your hands. Just will it to be there. Once you can do that, you can generate all the psi you want. (Not really, it takes practice to generate more psi, and too much can cause those detrimental effects I was talking about.) If you have done all the stuff I have talked about, Your ready for the Psi Ball. Congratulations. The world of psi awaits you.