Instructor: Rainsong
Date: February 3, 2018 (Saturday)
Rainsong
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another psionics seminar here at the social club.
Rainsong
This evening’s topic is a continuation of last week’s discussion of oomph: moving it around and gathering it up and “making more of”/“generating” it.
Rainsong
As discussed, because we don’t actually know what it is, we can’t really know if we are in fact “generating” any of it or gathering/focusing it some other way.
Rainsong
Are there any questions arising from what we covered last week? And/or stuff that occurred to you (about oomph) during the week?
Scelana
None that I can think of atm
B.O.X.
Honestly, sometimes I get confused about its form/consistency/state of matter, in a sensing it sense. Not always sure what to expect or unexpect.
Rainsong
The stuff we often consider to be the oomph has a certain amount of substance to it. Somewhere between a heated thick gas and a thin semi-liquid fluid.
Rainsong
However, it isn’t in fact either of those things. It just feels kind of like that, when it’s dense.
Rainsong
When it is very dense (as in, functional force-bubble), it call feel like glass or gelatin
Rainsong
The Soviets called it bioplasma, in part because of its weird consistency
Rainsong
Passing through different thicknesses of it can give the impression of passing through down in a pillow fight, or sifting through sand.
Rainsong
Much of the time, though, it will be too “thin” to have a very distinct feeling.
B.O.X.
I see… okay, that helps me understand the kind of range we’re dealing with
Rainsong
As for “form”, it often makes loose clumps. Have you ever seen cooking oil suspended in water or vinegar?
Rainsong
You know how it separates from the water, and congregates into blobs?
Rainsong
It’s a little like that.
Scelana
Ah
Rainsong
Or the way big wet snowflakes stick to each other.
B.O.X.
That’s a good description, yes. I like that.
Rainsong
Thanks
Rainsong
Any other questions? Comments?
B.O.X.
I think I am good so far.
Rainsong
A bit of a clumping exercise:
Rainsong
Spread your hands, palms facing each other, as though you were holding a basketball or a beachball or something along those lines (watermelon, football/soccer-ball, mooring float….)
Rainsong
Push the hand toward each other, and then pull them back outward, and push inward again…and so on twenty or thirty times. The motion is a little like playing a concertina/accordion, or kneading taffee, or awkwardly trying to push together a really big snowball
Rainsong
Do you notice anything? If so, what? (Other than “This looks pretty silly”, although that’s a valid observation, too.)
B.O.X.
I feel like I’m playing with my food and making a mess :p
Rainsong
Alright. Good descriptor there.
Scelana
Hmmm I kinda started hitting this boundary where my hands would become noticeably more tingly, as i kept repeating the motion i could eventually get my hands closer together but as i did the boundary seemed denser as in stronger more noticeable and stronger tingles as i hit it almost as if i was compressing something between them into a denser state
Rainsong
Good stuff.
Rainsong
Compressing oomph-stuff is exactly what we’re doing there.
Scelana
And that ball kinda floating in front of me still even though my hands aren’t there
Rainsong
How does it get there in this exercise? I don’t know, actually. It may just be a semi-conscious / subconscious association thing that’s going on, directing the oomph between the hands.
Rainsong
Scelana: Nice. Sounds like you’re getting better at sensing it, then?
B.O.X.
Same here, Scelana. And I was definitely wondering exactly about that, Rain
Scelana
My teacher worked on me some a day or so before the rare moon so they could attempt to utilize it to try and hopefully help fix me up
Rainsong
It’s one of those exercises that’s still fun to play with, forty years on. There are a few like this, where the “get the stuff there” part seems to happen almost on its own.
Scelana
I’ve made quite an improvement since
Rainsong
Cool.
Scelana
The ball slowly just kinda getting smaller as it fizzles out i guess best way to describe it
Rainsong
nods
Rainsong
Not a problem with that.
Rainsong
We’re going to take a slight detour, staying on the “exercises that seem to handle the oomph on their own” topic.
Rainsong
Shielding is a handy skill to have.
Rainsong
And there’s an easy but time-consuming Shield that works very well against standard sorts of things: telepathic noise, including empathic stuff, and the like.
Rainsong
Around here, we call it the “Stone Tower” Shield.
Rainsong
To make one, start by imagining a brick or a hewn stone.
Rainsong
Imagine it as clearly as you can, pretend to hold it in your hands.
Rainsong
And then set it on the ground, as though you’re about to start laying stones/bricks for a wall.
Rainsong
When it’s sitting pretty, add a second one.
Rainsong
(Feel free to use imaginary mortar, if you like.)
Rainsong
And a third… and so on
Rainsong
Make a broad circle around yourself.
Rainsong
Then start the second layer of stones, so that the ends of the stone on the second layer sit in the middles of two stones below it.
Rainsong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickwork In case you’re not familiar with brickwork/stonework/masonry
Rainsong
The picture that comes up under the link is a little more ornate than we need. The article has more useful information.
B.O.X.
I knew about brickwork, but dang those are fancy. 🙂
Rainsong
Feel free to make some bricks or stones clear, for example, when you get to the rows at head level.
Rainsong
And yes, for this one, it’s important to lay it one stone or brick at a time.
Rainsong
When it’s tall enough, start curving inward to make an arched roof… or something like the tops on those towers.
Scelana
Hmm I wonder if there be a way to setup something with Phil or in some other manner involving it, like an extra thing he or just can be auto throw up and taken down as needed for when something like that would be more suitable?
Rainsong
The concentration is the important part. This does not lend itself well to being thrown up quickly. (It is, of course, possible to throw up a quick brick/stone-style Shield using other methods, however.)
Rainsong
For quick Shielding, you’d be better off with other formats, whether Phil is doing them or you are.
Rainsong
Good question, though. 😀
Scelana
Ah i see I was thinking more like is it something Phil can build for me should I already have become unable to focus and require something to help with the cause
Lutasi
build the fuck outta that tower
Rainsong
Hi, Lutasi
Lutasi
make every goddamn brick the brickiest brick ever bricked 😛
Lutasi
Hio RS
Scelana
Hehe Lutasi
Rainsong
Are there any other questions or comments about the Stone Tower Shield? (Expect it to take a considerable amount of time. Twenty minutes at a minimum for one big enough to stand in)
Scelana
I’ve noticed i have been starting to get better at doing energy body limb moments without requiring physical body movements
B.O.X.
I guess I might have another dumb psi-physics question, actually
B.O.X.
This is gonna sound silly but – what happens when I go to sit or outstretch my arm while I’ve got such a shield or any shield going? That part somehow gets in the way of my process
B.O.X.
Could I tell those bricks to be stretchy or something if it bothers me that much?
B.O.X.
Or is rigidity the better goal?
Rainsong
With a relatively rigid format, like this one, generally you want it to be just beyond arm’s reach. So it’s a fairly large radius.
Rainsong
There are also Shield types that bend and stretch around your movement.
Rainsong
The Stone Tower will move around with you (usually – some people have to add that “intention” to the program at some point in construction. If you need to, push some oomph at it while picturing it moving along when you walk like an elaborate Hallowe’en costume)
Rainsong
Like this: http://www.almosttherealthing.com/amazing-diy-jellyfish-costume/
Konii
waves
Lutasi
stick litle wheels on the bottom of it
B.O.X.
Oooookay. That’s extremely helpful. I feel dumb for getting caught on such a specific dumb thing, but imagining it as a costume kind of situation clears up that… discrepancy… in my mind
Rainsong
Or kind of like this, if the “Shaped dress” were further out from her body. https://www.chasing-fireflies.com/product/eiffel-tower-costume-for-girls.do
Rainsong
Hi, Konii
Rainsong
B.O.X.: No, that is a perfectly legitimate question. Those kinds of details are important for these things.
Scelana
Would something looking like this just around roughly on the outside of Phil be of any potential use to eventually try out? https://www.textures.com/system/gallery/photos/Substance/124494/Substance0023_1_download600.jpg
Rainsong
Possibly so, yes.
Rainsong
Brick-work is a good solid substance, so basing regular types of Shielding on it can work well.
Konii
First lecture here Rainsong: I have a relatively on-topic question on shield making if you’d allow it in this lecture?
Rainsong
Go for it.
Konii
I recently started making incredibly basic shields, right… I would have a lot of trouble figuring out the shape and keeping the constant thought of it in my mind. I had the help of a scanner and he let me know that it felt like I had draped something over a ball, and that was the shield. It was also very holey and broken. Do you have any advice for that related to our lecture?
Konii
I know we’re discussing brick-like shield creation, so I hope it ties in with the subject in some way.
Rainsong
That’s fine. Our topic is a broad “getting oomph stuff to work” kind of thing.
Rainsong
How did you construct the Shield? What approach did you use?
Konii
Ah okay! I was worried there. Who knows what would happen if I posted off-topic content in the lecture room. My word.
Konii
When I constructed a shield for myself, I had visualized myself, and building similarly to the method you provided earlier. Not entirely in the same order. The scanner described it as “glitchy” as I had prioritized sending oomph to different parts of the imagined shields, like sectors almost.
Rainsong
LOL If it’s too off-topic, I request that it either wait until the class is over, or to take it to the main room or the practice annex. It’s happened before.
Konii
I tried making a shield on my amulet, and that was where the draping effect came in. I had visualized the shield with my palm in mind, so I’m presuming the palm blocked the entire shield from forming. Ah, okay. Good to know.
Konii
Anywhom.
Konii
Even though I had visualized the “entire” shield going through my palm and forming up against the actual amulet, it hadn’t worked. According to the scanner friend, it only draped over half the amulet.
Konii
To describe it more clearly^
Rainsong
Hmmm. To fix that, I’d either push it out further from your body and then “spackle” it with more oomph; or send out more oomph to wrap it as though you were winding a ball of yarn…
Rainsong
Or, turn it into a cloak-form Shield, and just thicken it up, patching as needed.
Rainsong
If you’re not comfortable scanning your own Shield yet, try adding an entire layer of “more oomph” like a layer of insulation. Start with 2-3“/5-8cm thick.
Konii
I hadn’t even begun the concept of scanning to be fair, Rain, so it will take awhile to do it on my own 😀
Rainsong
No problem. Just add a second layer.
Konii
But I do see what you mean. When I was constructing my bubble it was relatively close proximity to my body. When you say speckle.. it reminds me of a .gif from a psi-related website, basics of generating psi and making a psiball. It showed an animation of the man building up psi, and speckling it into the imagined area. Is that what you mean by Speckle?
Rainsong
The ball of yarn approach (or, actually, ball of ribbon) was a method favoured by a Druid friend of mine, years ago. It’s good for novices, because it’s easier to visualize clearly and interesting enough to hold your attention.
Konii
I see. Could you lend me a guide on that in the social hall or here if it helps with the lecture?
Rainsong
By “spackling”, I meant patching with clumps stuck to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spackling_paste
Konii
Ah, sort of like how when you punch a minor hole in the wall, you paste it up through spackling?
Rainsong
Yes, exactly
Konii
emphasis on minor
Konii
Anyway, I see what you mean now.
Rainsong
As for the ribbon approach to making a Shield: Send out a stream or ribbon of oomph from one hand and wrap it all around you (or whatever you’re Shielding), winding the ribbon so it covers and overlaps itself.
Konii
So, sort of like.. a spider web almost, but more direct-able.
Konii
You’re slinging spider silk from your hands like spider man, but able to manuever that silk around an object?
Rainsong
Ball of yarn: http://lovelightlaughterandchocolate.blogspot.ca/2015/06/unraveling.html
Rainsong
Yes, like that. Although Spidey typically sent his webbing from devices on the inner wrist, instead of the palm as such.
Konii
ahh right.. how could I forget that.
Rainsong
And if you make your ribbon sticky, like spider silk, all the better to hold its shape.
Rainsong
Any questions/comments on basic Shielding? I know it’s a bit of a tangent, but still relevant to our topic today, I think
Rainsong
Almost any Shield you can put around yourself can be put around someone or something else.
Rainsong
Some people find it easier to Shield themselves, and some find it easier to Shield someone/something else. But anyone with the basic skill ought to be able to learn to do both, with some practice
Rainsong
The seminar topic wandered a bit, but Shielding is important enough that I don’t think that was a problem. And it still involved moving oomph
Konii
I would like to touch up on moving oomph.. personally.
Konii
Is there any way we can tell how much oomph we’re putting into a portion of our body without actually compressing something, such as a basic construct?
Rainsong
With practice, you start to get an idea of roughly “how much” oomph you’re putting in a spot, and how compressed it is. But, lacking any useful mode of measurement, it’s mostly a matter of experience.
Rainsong
If you’re good at dowsing, you could make a scale of, for example, 0 – 100 with 0 being none at all and 100 being everything you can muster, and dowse the level between.
Konii
What are some physical queue’s that could hint at heightened amounts of oomph? You have your heat, cold, tingly feelings yes: but that’s for any amount of oomph. You can’t use those feelings to determine how much you have in one particular spot, right?
Konii
I’ve done little study on dowsing, but it seems like a fairly intriguing concept.
Rainsong
If you do tactile scanning, feel for how thick/wide it is, and how much resistance or heat you feel against your hand. An oomph-heavy area will feel like there’s a round mound higher than the surrounding area.
Konii
So, kind of like getting a pimple. lol
Rainsong
More like an abcess, as it tends to be evenly round while pimples usually aren’t
Rainsong
(Just keeping it real…)
Rainsong
But otherwise, yes
Konii
Noted. I think most people at the start tend to look for resistence above anything else first.
Rainsong
Probably. But they’d be better served to feel (and look) for anything that is irregular, especially when compared to the opposite side of the body. If your left elbow has a bump in the field, check to see if the right elbow does, too. If so, it might just be the general structure of the energy-part of the body. If one does and one doesn’t, there’s either more or less oomph there. Bump would imply more, dip would imply less.
Rainsong
Further questions? Commentary?
Scelana
None that I can think of atm
Konii
Interesting. That’s good to know. I’m tired at the current moment so I’m on and off with the questions.
B.O.X.
One more here… can intention at some object “generate” oomph at/around it, or does it usually come from “you”? Or does it matter?
Konii
Hey, Rain, perhaps you can tell us (perhaps demonstrate) getting oomph from the Earth, Sun, or Moon instead of our own bodies?
Konii
Of course, B.O.X’s question peaks my curiosity.
Rainsong
Some object appear to “generate” oomph themselves, and some hold it battery-style very well. But if it didn’t have it already, the stuff has to come from somewhere, you or something else.
Rainsong
As for drawing “energy stuff” from celestial bodies, I’ve rarely done it. Pulling oomph from the earth is often done by pulling it (just move stuff in the opposite direction than “pushing”) up through your feet. Or lie on the ground and draw “excess” oomph in from around you. There tends to be lots of ambient oomph. Plants give off something like our oomph and take in our excess oomph, for example. And random clumps stick to rocks and get stuck in (for example) quartz and copper veins in the ground.
Konii
So, is that why a lot of people who carry around amulets and stuff prefer quartz?
Rainsong
Quartz holds oomph well, but releases it relatively easily. It also cleans and amplifies it.
Konii
What about gold?
Rainsong
Diamonds, by contrast, hold it well, but it’s the devil’s own job to clean it.
Rainsong
Gold holds it well enough. Copper and silver are better, in my opinion.
Rainsong
Hematite pulls oomph in. Doesn’t let it out very easily. Salt crystal is much the same.
Rainsong
Questions or comments?
B.O.X.
I’m pretty satisfied, here.
Konii
Yes, the lecture was very informative. I also need to get back to Kreo for practice.
Rainsong
thanks for participating, everyone.
B.O.X.
Very helpful as always, Rain… thank you, thank you.
Rainsong
Thanks, I’m glad you’re finding them useful 😀
B.O.X.
Of course. When you’re running the show, it’s like an information and practice goldmine. Gold as in, accurate and refined and useful.
Rainsong
Thank you. That’s very kind. 😀
B.O.X.
🙂