Instructor: Wayfarer
Date: April 6, 2017 (Thursday)
Note: This class was conducted in the Order of the Golden Pyramid community’s chatroom
Wayfarer
Okay @Katie , enough politicking. Let’s do some psionics and suchlike. @Jade you can start following the conversation again from here when you read back. Katie do you mind giving me a general brief history of what kind of thing you’ve done so far? You obviously already do some scanning?
Katie
Scanning is basically everything I did in relation to psi
Wayfarer
What about with regards to other things? And what method of scanning did you learn?
Wayfarer
It helps to know your magical background generally so as to relate psionics to other things. Helps communicate concepts.
Katie
some basic witchcraft. Enchanting crystals and necklaces. Basic protection spells.
Katie
I don’t know, there’s different methods?
Wayfarer
Well people learn different ways to do the same thing. Okay, enchanting crystals and necklaces is a good start, as it’s essentially where I start when teaching psionics. So as you know, then, everything, objects, people, etc. already have a kind of energy to them, and that energy can carry information and interact with other such energy, yeah?
Wayfarer
This energy can either be static or dynamic. Living things tend to have dynamic energy, they tend to give it off. Nonliving things also have energy, but it tends to be very stagnant on its own, and it changes relative to the things around it.
Wayfarer
The energy we work with in psionics is kind of a special thing. I like the term subtle energy, some people call it psi, bioenergy, bioplasma, qi, prana, lung, etc. etc. There are a lot of terms in English, for it, I do not know actually the German word for it. I do know there must be one because many years ago when I was a kid I stumbled onto what was basically the German equivalent of the online energy community, so there must be something.
Katie
Yea, I can follow you so far ^^
Wayfarer
In any case, this subtle energy tends to be reflected very directly astrally, but the principle of correspondence, “as above, so below” applies strongly here. Physical objects affect energy, energy affects physical objects, energy affects the astral, the astral affects energy. For most purposes we can get away with considering astral energy and energy here identical, I think most people think of it that way and there’s no problem with that.
Wayfarer
Energy tends also to be very responsive to thought. Have you ever picked up a belonging of someone’s and immediately felt emotions, memories, things like this?
Katie
I still don’t know about the Astral xD
Wayfarer
That’s okay, you don’t need to know anything about it for right now. We’ll work to that. 😀
Katie
Yea, I’m an empath. I get people’s feelings directly xD
Wayfarer
Right, and you may have noticed that people can impress those emotions onto objects, and objects can carry those emotions. A classic example is jewelry that was worn by someone who has died, and we get some kind of information, some feeling, when we touch that jewelry.
Katie
yea
Wayfarer
There’s no weird haunting thing happening here, usually what this means is that a person wore that jewelry a lot, or focused on it, thought about it a lot. Metal, for various reasons, tends to have energy that is fairly malleable, it is easily impressed upon.
Wayfarer
So the thing is, this happens by just kind of passive contact. If someone spends a lot of time in a place, that place will take on their “feeling.” If someone wears a bracelet every day, they will impress themselves onto that bracelet without doing anything at all. This is how a lot of mediums and psychics and so on can do readings using jewelry or so on.
Wayfarer
(A lot of them are also just very good bullshitters, but we’re not interested in them, haha)
Katie
(haha, alright xD)
Wayfarer
So, psionics is basically taking intentional control over that same usually passive process of imprinting energy. If energy responds to our thoughts, feelings, and so on just naturally, without us doing anything special, it certainly will do so when we actively attempt to program it, or encode it, or move it around, and so on.
Wayfarer
Now, the other part of this is that just thinking about a thing kind of passively gives us very sort of passive results. When you have that bracelet, for example, it could be imprinted on energetically just passively, over a long period of time, by being exposed to the same thing day after day. In this sense it’s like the rock that gets worn down by the river water over time, yeah?
Katie
yea
Wayfarer
But there’s other ways to shape rock. The river can wear down the rock over time, but a hammer and chisel can do it much faster!
Wayfarer
So why I asked you about meditation earlier is because cultivating the ability to focus our intent, to focus our thoughts and goals and so on, is the primary mechanism here so that we don’t have to do things slowly like the river. We want to be the hammer and chisel, not the river. Otherwise we might as well just not bother with it, or do some ritual or so on.
Azarea
[I think the common german word for energy in this context is “Kraft” (=force), older texts sometimes talk of “Strömung” (=stream). Sorry for interrupting, you just made me curious.]
Wayfarer
You may be familiar with a popular theory on haunted houses, especially when there has been for example a murder, right?
Wayfarer
(Danke schön, Azarea, ich bin nie sicher. “Kraft” bedeutet force, power, etc. und es ist nicht klar zu mir, weil Deutsch ist nicht meine Muttersprache.)
[translation: “Thank you, Azarea, I’m never sure. ‘Kraft’ means force, power, etc. and it is not clear to me because German is not my native language.”]
Katie
I mostly hear of Energie or Chi here
Wayfarer
Energie dachte ich aber drüber auch war ich nicht sicher.
[translation: “I thought it was “Energie” but I was not certain”]
Wayfarer
Anyhow!
Wayfarer
So, Katie, you know about the haunting thing yeah?
Wayfarer
“So and so was murdered in this house and now there is a ghost.”
Katie
Hollywood horror movie template
Wayfarer
A lot of times most people no longer believe that’s actually like, that person’s soul trapped there or so on. Mostly it doesn’t make a lot of sense, souls can go anywhere, why would they stick around for many years in a place where bad things happened? Also it’s kind of a bleak picture of reality, innit? “We die and then we become vapor and hang out places.”
Jade
Lol
Wayfarer
The general theory nowadays with hauntings is that at the time of death, a person’s really heightened emotional state (such as one might have while being, say, murdered) creates a very strong emotional state, which impresses itself super hard on a room, or object, or whatever.
ThunderGladiator
Oh
ThunderGladiator
Makes senseee
Wayfarer
So it isn’t just the calm river of emotion that the room has had for a long time, but kind of like, a water saw, super super focused, really intense. This will break rock down too.
Katie
makes sense
Wayfarer
So if we look at the manipulation of energy like this, this is why I first asked about meditation. The stronger you’re able to focus, the more acutely you can bring an idea to mind, the more intensely you can hold it in the mind, the more impact you’re going to have on the energy around you.
ThunderGladiator
Sometimes that energy can take form
Wayfarer
A lot of places that teach psionics start out with “start by manipulating your own energy,” and that’s not wrong. It’s a good enough method, because your own energy is much more attuned to your thoughts already. It might even be generated by them, according to some theories.
Wayfarer
But I do not like that method, for a few reasons. One, it’s unlikely, but possible, to injure yourself by running energy through the body all erratic like. It’s very uncommon but I’ve seen it happen. Two, if we start out doing the easiest thing, it’s much harder to kind of conceptually move on to manipulating other energy.
Wayfarer
So you’re already familiar with enchanting, yeah? What kind of enchantments have you done?
ThunderGladiator
So what you are saying is that haunted houses are direct result of the energies released from people that died there?
Katie
Basically, yes. Protection and cleansing
Wayfarer
Not in every case but sometimes, yes. Most of the time hauntings that result from traumatic events in the home are either related to the event itself impressing on the area, or to certain types of spirits that eat that kind of energy.
Wayfarer
Okay, how did you go about doing those enchantments? Ritual? Sigils?
Katie
Wiccan ritual
Wayfarer
Okay, neat. Is Wicca very popular in Europe? I had imagined it was more common in the US and Europe would tend towards more reconstructivist stuff, but reconstructionism in German speaking countries tends to be dominated by shitheads.
ThunderGladiator
I always thought the energy attracted the negative entities , or the energy itself served a thoughtform like being that purpose is to keep that energy constant by protecting its source essence
Katie
It’s not really prevalent as a religion, but the core believes are there in like 80% of the people xD
Wayfarer
Sometimes that happens, TG. A lot of what we term “negative” spirits or hostile spirits are attracted to that kind of traumatic emotional energy and will show up later. Sometimes they even induce the event through obsession or possession in the first place.
Wayfarer
Gotcha.
Katie
Germany is like 50% Atheist, no religion is prevalent here
Wayfarer
When you do that kind of a ritual, most likely, you’re using a series of visualizations and you’re performing some ritual actions that work through a few diverse methods, for example, by burning plants that, when burned, release energy that is protective, or by using plants and so on that are sympathetic to spirits that protect things, or so on.
Katie
yea
Wayfarer
Psionics is not a workaround to ritual, but it accomplishes the same things in the end. A lot of people like to go “well energy manipulation is just more direct, and ritual just manipulates energy, so why bother with ritual, let’s do energy manipulation only!” and this tends to make chumpy weak magicians in the long run.
Katie
getting energy from the elements, getting intent in form of spells, visualising it, getting further intent and the stereotypical witch-work by burning herbs
Katie
It’s just nicer to grow and burn sage, write spells, light candles, etc xD
Wayfarer
Like, the ritual you use to enchant an object will leave the same energetic impression on the object as if you just imprint the energy, but a lot of times there’s a bunch of other stuff in play too, spirits that are getting involved based on a lineage or because they like the plants, and so on. So by no means should you learn to enchant things energetically and then go “welp so much for burning sage!” and throw out all your candles or whatever, haha
Katie
haha xD
Wayfarer
There’s a popular school that likes to believe that ritual is used only to mobilize the will the way you do when you do psionics, and so skip the ritual, just mobilize the will, job done. I think that’s kind of a weak view. Those people tend to make fine psionicists but they dismiss other people’s traditions too readily and tend to have huge blind spots in their practice.
Katie
Writing a spell raises much more intent, if you ask me
Katie
dedicating literal hours into writing and refining a spell, speaking it out loud… Much better than some rather unprepared random thoughts xD
Wayfarer
It raises about the same amount of energy in my experience between a ritual and the psionic approach to the same thing, but takes a whole lot less discipline, haha
Wayfarer
Because again, the psionic method tries to focus all that thought and intent into being a water saw instead of a river. You’re training the mental discipline to get that focus under control, that’s why I brought up meditation.
Katie
makes sense indeed
Wayfarer
But anyhow you didn’t want me to just lecture you on the values of meditation. But do continue to do that. Real simple meditation. Any time you get the chance, focus on your breathing. Count breaths in and out. Any time you catch yourself thinking other stuff, that’s success, not failure. When you notice your mind wandering, you’re learning to recognize your mind’s behaviors, and it will naturally become more disciplined and focused. Try to do that for 5 or 10 minutes at a time, a few times a day. Don’t try to meditate, just rest your mind on something, and if it wanders off, bring it back.
Wayfarer
If something intrusive arises, just go “okay, sure.” And dismiss it. Acknowledge it, then move on, back to the thing you’re focusing on.
Katie
I can’t just say “okay” to something that’s literally the opposite of my morality >.>
Wayfarer
Sure you can. Just go, “welp, that thought sure did show up.” then wave it away. Don’t react, just let it be there doing what it does.
Wayfarer
Sure, why not? We can talk about that part a bit more in PM later.
Wayfarer
Ain’t trying to do a meditation class, trying to do a psionics intro. But meditation is going to be very important moving forward, so I had to address it. We can talk about that other bit later in private, because I’m very much thinking “sure, you can absolutely just acknowledge that then dismiss it.” Haha
Wayfarer
But anyhow, let’s talk about enchanting things psionically, shall we? Forget about constructs and shapes and stuff, let’s just focus on imprinting things energetically.
Katie
okay ^^
Katie
I guess I just have to focus on it?
Wayfarer
More or less, but I’ll give you a little better than that.
Wayfarer
So I think you were interested in cloaking, yeah?
Katie
yea
Shard
One, it’s unlikely, but possible, to injure yourself by running energy through the body all erratic like. It’s very uncommon but I’ve seen it happen. – This is why I often recommend manipulating outside yourself at a distance, you can still harm yourself, but it is far less likely, as long as you don’t try to direct ungodly amounts of energy.
Katie
has been doing it all wrong
Wayfarer
So let’s do that one. There are a few ways to accomplish it. We’re going to make a magic item today. For that kind of thing I like necklaces because they’re easy to take on and off and generally pretty discrete. You can use anything, if you already enchant stuff a crystal in a pocket is fine. A pencil! A t-shirt, whatever. I prefer metal objects because some people find that much easier to work with. Wood and fiber stuff often has a lot of the properties of the thing it was made out of still that you’re working to overwrite. Metal has as one of its properties, “malleable,” so it tends to be pretty easy to impress onto.
Katie
I have an unused necklace
Katie
my other items would need to be cleansed properly first
Katie
this one needs to, but I never enchanted anything on it
Wayfarer
Great. We’ll possibly end up rewriting it several times, so it’s nothing you need to be like super attached to. We can actually clean it as we work with it.
Katie
Cleaning wouldn’t be bad at all. I don’t want any interference
Shard
As to cloaking… A very easy, yet very potent method is projection of the idea that you are nothing, utterly unimportant/worthless. As you may imagine, however, this has rather serious negative side-effects. If you want a good way to induce that feeling, look at some of the videos showing the size of earth compared to various planets/stars, and consider your own size compared to earth in relation to that. Worth keeping in mind for if you ever feel like you are in danger, as you can rapidly throw up a very potent cloak using that method if needed, then use less harmful methods typically.
Katie
I’m carrying it around with me for quite a while though, so it’s already kinda attuned to me
Wayfarer
Right. So first thing’s first, during your Wiccan studies have you done grounding and centering?
Wayfarer
Shard: that’s more or less what we’re gonna do here, but we’re going about it slightly differently to avoid the problems you’re talking about.
Katie
Grounding, yea
Wayfarer
Okay, so first thing we can do is just ground. Do that grounding thing. Feet on the ground, breathe in, and as you breathe out, just kind of feel yourself connecting to the earth. Relax your whole body sequentially by flexing each muscle and relaxing it. Placing both hands roughly in front of you, palm up, in front of your navel, breath in, lifting them to about the throat, then turn them and push down and out while exhaling. While you do this, visualize some energy (whatever visualization you think of) coming out from the point just below your navel, all through your body, then pushing down and breathing out, visualize it pushing off to the ground. Create a circuit coming in your left foot, and down out your right. This is just a little warm up, but it’s a good practice.
Wayfarer
We’re kind of combining grounding and centering there into one exercise.
Katie
what’s centering again?
Wayfarer
Next, to clean the necklace, first hold it in your left hand. Traditionally/culturally, the right hand gives, the left hand receives. This is a good general rule of thumb. It’s not like, some kind of universal rule that is 100% always the case, right? But it’s a handy metric that works on a few levels.
Wayfarer
Centering is bringing the energy basically from your fringe into your center. I didn’t describe it great detail there, but it’s accomplished through that kind of breathing exercise. Your goal is to find the energetic “center” which in this case will be about 4 fingers below your navel.
Wayfarer
Holding the object in your left hand, put your right hand over it. You can either hover it over the object or clasp it between your hands, in this case it doesn’t matter.
Wayfarer
Having done that, focus your attention on that object. If your hands aren’t clasped, look at it. Rest your mind on it. Feel it. Try to feel the full, lived experience of that necklace, just the whole totality of it.
Wayfarer
While you’re doing this, feel that you are connected to it, your energy is flowing from your right hand, through the object, mingling with the object’s own energy so they are fully connected, and then it flows out. While we’re cleaning it, visualize the energy you’re sending into it is just unpatternized, just natural energy that wipes away anything. As it wipes things away, that energy flows down into the ground and is gone.
Wayfarer
Do this for a little bit until the object feels to you just pure, like just a necklace with the energy just being necklacey.
Wayfarer
Still with me?
Katie
yes
Wayfarer
Okay. When the necklace feels necklacey, we’re going to start programming it with an emotion. Because we’re trying to cloak you, this should be just boredom. Disinterest. The feeling you get when you see a maths textbook in a room full of really interesting stuff.
Wayfarer
Like you go to a museum and there are a thousand interesting things around and then just, like, a bucket.
Wayfarer
Boring as heck.
Katie
haha xD ok
Wayfarer
Bring up that emotion and hold it in your mind. Know that because you’ve wiped away the other stuff, this necklace will be very easy to program. Visualize all that boredom being generated with your own energy, from your center, flowing up through your hand and out into the object. When it reaches the object, the object itself becomes boring.
Shard
Quick note: ceiling tiles. Few look up, there is nothing most find interesting up there, and they are very bland. Makes a pretty good baseline IMO, for a ‘safe’ method.
Wayfarer
This is the first phase because what this will accomplish is making the energy of the object boring, the next thing we’ll do is expand that into a field in which everything inside is boring.
Katie
is there anything that will not completely detach me from the necklace’s origins?
Wayfarer
How do you mean?
Katie
if that necklace was gifted to me by somebody, how can I keep the trace of this person intact?
Katie
nevermind, I’ll use my bracelet
Wayfarer
Find that feeling on the object with your left hand, that connection, and keep that energy in the mix. Personally I don’t like enchanting stuff with sentimental value like that, yeah.
Wayfarer
Before you do, if you’ve already been working at it, go ahead and think about that person for a bit while flowing energy into it to kind of restore that imprint.
Katie
how exactly do I imprint the energy?
Wayfarer
It will naturally imprint as you kind of let it flow through, by holding that emotion strongly in your mind it will just kind of “rub off” on the object.
Wayfarer
You’re basically moving the emotion from you into the object by focusing on it. That’s why it’s important in this case to try to really feel that boredom.
Katie
done
Katie
should have emotionless/bored energy imprinted onto it
Shard
For later attempts, I recommend attempting ‘nothingness’ rather than boredom, it has some interesting effects. Both methods have their own benefits and downsides.
Wayfarer
Okay. Now, that object will be really ignorable, so don’t put it places you’ll easily lose it. The next thing we want to do is generalize it to a field. I don’t like “nothingness” for a few reasons. I like “disinterest” most, like just totally ignorable, but nothingness can have weird emotional effects. You can actually wrap all of those into one thing really effectively.
Wayfarer
So the next thing we want to do is set that thing on a table. You want the energy to be really stable, really solid. We want to let it sit for a minute and go ahead and ground and center again, leaving that boring/disinteresting programming on the bracelet, rather than maintaining it ourself. So visualize the last of your ‘bored’ emotion flowing into the bracelet and staying there.
Katie
won’t the bracelet need to be resupplied sometime?
Wayfarer
It will, and we’re gonna do that when you wear it. 😀
Shard
More advanced trick: have it siphon up ‘loose’ energy that is similar affinity, take the discarded intent and power of others who have passed through the same area.
Katie
I have such an item already, but it’s not really efficient if you ask me
Wayfarer
We’re keeping it simple for now because this is a first exercise in doing any kind of psionics at all, so we’ll have this thing draw energy by reestablishing that energetic flow. What we will want to do once it’s sitting on the table and we’re all clear is go ahead and put the bracelet back on, but when you do so, imagine that whole emotion you’ve attached to it surrounding your entire body. You don’t want to become bored, you want to be disinteresting. Boring. So you let that emotion of boredom surround you without matching it exactly.
Katie
forgot to mention. Made an energy collector xD
Wayfarer
But when it does so, it should utilize your outer energy field, which we’ll play with more tomorrow or the next day.
Shard
nods Just tossing out ideas of what can be done in the future. But yes, you want a hollow within, or simply immunitize yourself, either works.
Katie
so, I shounld imagine it expanding into a bubble of sorts?
Wayfarer
For now this is just a bone basic exercise. You can also do this with other emotions obviously. Happiness, alertness, safety, and so on are popular ones (although notably “safety” makes you feel safe, it doesn’t necessarily make you actually safe).
Wayfarer
Yeah, imagining it as a bubble around you is perfect. It draws the energy from you and expands it into a bubble around you.
Wayfarer
A bubble that is boring.
Wayfarer
Keeping that emotion associated with the object, and the bubble, is super critical.
Wayfarer
Because that’s the programming.
Wayfarer
And for now it’s not super stable. But every time you wear it for that purpose, it will reinforce itself.
Katie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/redoux/7060814823 couldn’t help it, sorry
Wayfarer
I would also suggest not wearing it for any other purpose, because that can dillute it a bit. This is a very simple one, we will make more advanced ones over time.
Katie
I’ll wear it 24/7?
Katie
I want to look boring to them all the time, not only when I feel like wearing that specific bracelet xD
Wayfarer
If you wear it 24/7 for the purpose of being cloaked and boring 24/7 that’s fine. Any time you are reminded of it remember what you did with it, and so on.
Wayfarer
Haha
Wayfarer
Well for now we’re putting that on an object. Later we will do a construct that does the same thing.
Wayfarer
But imprinting objects is generally easier than making things whole cloth.
Katie
okay ^^ thanks!
Wayfarer
Yeap. 😀 Tomorrow we’ll do some more advanced stuff. For now, any time you want to recharge that while you’re wearing it, just bring up that boredom feeling and kind of “push” it into the bracelet. If you take it off, it will be fine. Please remember the bubble is associated with the object, not with your own field (this is important for now).
Azarea
good tutorial, would you mind this being copy-pasted and stored in resources?
Wayfarer
(But it does draw your energy to power the field, but in a very natural and safe way)
Azarea
I’ll clean some of the non-talk parts
Wayfarer
Not at all, Azarea. 😀
Katie
Tomorrow?
Katie
Not sure if I’ll be around
Wayfarer
Or whenever you’re available.
Katie
At least not around this time
Wayfarer
You can ping me. All good. 😀
Katie
okay, thanks ^^
Katie
great lesson 😀
Wayfarer
Also just generally as a note, if you make objects that are boring and disinteresting and hard to find, if you do take it off, make sure you put it somewhere you’re not going to lose it or forget it.
Wayfarer
Because, you know, it’s meant to be lost.
Katie
haha xD
Katie
won’t forget about it
Katie
now I see a pulsing grey bubble around me
Katie
thanks visualisation
Wayfarer
That is very good, remember how boring that bubble feels, and that it’s connected to just the least interesting bracelet in the world.