Concerning Abusive Dynamics in Psi and Magic Communities

Instructor: Rainsong & Wayfarer
Date: February 15, 2020 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: Concerning Abusive Dynamics in Psi and Magic Communities (suggested by Patches… and bumping a review on oomph) — Saturday, 15 Februay, 2020 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong — Search LECTURE116

Rainsong: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Rainsong: Welcome to another psionics seminar here at the social club

Rainsong: Our topic for the evening was suggested by Patches, and it bumped a review on the use of “oomph”

Rainsong: “Concerning Abusive Dynamics in Psi and Magic Communities”

Enigmatic Knight: Sounds good lol. We need this one

Rainsong: That seems to be the general consensus, yea.

Rainsong: I am not by any means an expert on the topic, but there’s a reason I periodically remind people that being able to do psionics – or any other magic – is not a sign of purity, selflessness, general goodness, or favour of a God or Goddess

ceahhettan: I mean we should come around to this every so often anyway, yeah.

Rainsong: That kind of belief is really common, and propogated deliberately by a) folks who want everyone else to believe their stuff works but is just being sabotaged at the moment by an impure thought, and b) wanna-be gurus who want to lure in unsuspecting victims

Wayfarer: Anyone who engages with any generally occult stuff for any period of time inevitably has to come around to it, such are the nature of these things.

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Impromptu Discussion of Dissociative Identity Disorders & Telepathy

Instructor: Wayfarer
Date: February 9, 2020 (Sunday)

Seminar: Topic: Impromptu Discussion of Dissociative Identity Disorders and Telepathy in #social-hall

Wayfarer: Dissociative disorders were my clinical focus, so I have a particular fondness for it. The biggest problem as I see it with treating DID ityool 2020 is the Internet, as the Internet is the source of all problems.

Kate Embers: Honestly many plural people aren’t that more fucked up. It’s just that psychology knows just about nothing about trauma and few therapists actually want to deal with it. ||I’ve been rejected by more than one therapist because they just didn’t wanna treat trauma categorically.|| So it’s less of a thing of traumagenic plurality being super difficult rather than a lack of skill on the professional’s side. I’d argue that things like Borderline, Bipolar, or Psychoses can be much harder to treat than that.

Wayfarer: Specifically, it’s that people embrace internal models of psychodrama that were previously not particularly common, and these become self-reinforcing structures. It’s not a separate issue, ultimately, from diagnosis identification.

Kate Embers: Can you elaborate on that?

Wayfarer: Indeed so Kate. When I say they are “fucked up” I mean that endearingly.

Wayfarer: I can, yes.

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Introduction to Psionics

Instructor: Rainsong
Date: February 8, 2020 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: Introduction to Psionics — Saturday, 8 February, 2020 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong — Search LECTURE115

Rainsong: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen

Rainsong: Welcome to another psionics seminar here at the social club.

Rainsong: The usual disclaimers apply, yadda yadda

Rainsong: Our topic for the evening is an “Introduction to Psionics”

Rainsong: Is anyone up for a class this evening?

Wayfarer: Hmm :thinking:

PatchesTheCoydog: Is here but might be intermittently AFK

Rainsong: Hi, Wayfarer and Patches

Rainsong: I imagine most people in this community have heard of psionics. The concept itself is not exactly novel.

Rainsong: However, I figured a bit of a review might be handy, with all the new folks around, and to make sure we’re talking about the same thing… even if we disagree about aspects of it

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Journal Club – What Do We Know About Psi (Stanford Research Institute)

Instructor: Rainsong
Date: February 1, 2020 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: Journal Club — Saturday, 1 February, 2020 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong — Search LECTURE114
https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/33/jse_33_4_Targ.pdf
Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 569–592, 2019 0892-3310/19 What Do We Know about Psi? The First Decade of Remote-Viewing Research and Operations at Stanford Research Institute RUSSELL TARG Submitted September 18, 2019; Accepted September 29, 2019; Published December 30, 2019 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31275/2019/1669

Rainsong: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Rainsong: Welcome to another seminar here at the social club.

Rainsong: Tonight is another Journal Club session.

Rainsong: The article is a recent (ie, published just a touch over a month ago) piece that is mostly a historical reckoning, with some interesting details.

Rainsong: It’s a relatively long read, but not very complicated.

Rainsong: I discovered some interesting bits of historical trivia that I hadn’t previously been aware of.

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It’s Bad Luck to be Superstitious

Instructor: Rainsong
Date: January 25, 2020 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: It’s bad luck to be superstitious — Saturday, 25 January, 2020 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong, probably — Search LECTURE113

Rainsong: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen

Rainsong: Welcome to another psionics seminar here at the social club

Rainsong: Our topic for the evening is “It’s bad luck to be superstitious”.

Rainsong: As usual, we’ll be talking about real-world psionics

Rainsong: Mostly microPK

Rainsong: Anyone up for it today?

Rainsong: Apparently not.

Rainsong: For those reading the probably-very-short logs…

Chirotractor: Sorry got car issues

Rainsong: Spending time worrying about something is a good way to tilt the odds in favour of that thing happening, because of microPK.

Rainsong: The more PK talent you have, the more likely you’ll see this effect.

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Using Meditation to Improve Your Psychokinesis

Instructor: Rainsong
Date: January 18, 2020 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: using meditation to improve your psychokinesis (suggested by Rose…”like, specifically how to utilize meditation to improve the aspects that come into play during psychokinesis”) — Saturday, 18 January, 2020 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong, probably — Search LECTURE112

Rainsong: Hihi. anyone up for a seminar this evening?

Chirotractor: am not really around

Rainsong: not a problem. Have a good time 😀

Rose Cinderfall: i’m here

Rose Cinderfall: i requested this one

Rainsong: You did, yes.

Rainsong: Hi, Rose

Rainsong: Alright… Our topic for the evening is ‘using meditation to improve your psychokinesis”

TehOldeSourcerer: Hi

Rainsong: Hi, Teh

Rainsong: There are a number of factors at play when doing PK, and we only know some of them. Just some of the “if you do this, this other thing happens”

Rainsong: And the “this” is often different for micro and macro PK

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Journal Club – Dowsing Can Be Interfered With By Radio Frequency Radiation

Instructor: Rainsong
Date: January 11, 2020 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: Journal Club — Saturday, 11 January, 2020 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong, probably — Search LECTURE111

Dowsing can be interfered with by radio frequency radiation
Paavo Huttunen, Ahti Niinimaa, Risto Myllyla
Pathophysiology 19 (2012) 89-94

Rainsong: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Rainsong: Welcome to another psionics seminar here at the social club.

Rainsong: Tonight, we’re having another Journal Club meeting, to discuss the findings of a Finnish paper in Pathophysiology that I came across while looking for something else.

Rainsong: The peculiarities of the search function at the library at work can sometimes make for interesting results when doing literature searches :/

Rainsong: The gist of the article can be pretty much summed up in its title: Dowsing can be interfered with by radio frequency radiation

Rainsong: Are there any questions or comments, before we dive in?

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“Vibes” Stuck to Stuff

Instructor: Rainsong
Date: January 4, 2020 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: “Vibes” stuck to stuff — Saturday, 4 January, 2020 (Happy New Year!) at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong — Search LECTURE111

Rainsong: Hello

Rainsong: Any requests tonight?

Chirotractor: I got a few wonderments but no clue how to phrase them as something you could do a seminar on

Rainsong: Are you able to articulate them at all, or are they still percolating in there?

Chirotractor: something like ‘how does the vibe of something form develop and change’

Rainsong: Ahhh, okay.

Chirotractor: Had a conversation easlier today on that general… tone

Rainsong: With the huge caveat that this is a model rather than a definitive description of the physics of it (because we do not know the physics of how this works)…

Rainsong: Humans aren’t the only things that have “fields”.

Rainsong: Pretty much everything does.

Rainsong: Animate, inanimate, non-corporeal….

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Alice Shares a Meditation Method

Instructor: Alice
Date: January 1, 2020 (Wednesday)

Seminar: Topic: Alice Sharing a Meditation Method (January 1, 2020) — SEARCH ALICEMEDITATION

Alice: So this is a basic meditation used for the purpose of rest. It’s best used twice a day, just after waking up, and five to seven hours later. It’s best to meditate for ten to twenty minutes. Shorter won’t get the full benefit, and longer will have diminishing returns. This type of meditation improves awareness and refreshes the mind and reduces anxiety. It’s best not to do it right before sleep, as it energizes you and can keep you from getting to sleep. If anyone wants the technique this is based on, you can purchase the book Bliss More by Light Watkins on Kindle. It has a much more in depth description of the entire subject, and more information on meditation in general. Some of the description below is my own take on things, so if what I’ve said doesn’t work it may be better to go to my source.

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Discussion of Phasing

Instructor: Rainsong
Date: December 29, 2019 (Saturday)

Seminar: Topic: Discussion of Phasing — Sunday, 29 December, 2019 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong — Search LECTURE110

shadowsword: May I suggest item translocation if you could talk about that some?

Rainsong: “Translocation”?

shadowsword: Might be “phasing” because it’s basically “phasing” objects through other objects

shadowsword: Not sure what kind of phasing you mean

Rainsong: Yes, solid objects passing through each other

Chirotractor: checks through their catalog of interests

Chirotractor: nope I ain’t got no useful suggestions

shadowsword: Ooh.

Rainsong: So, good evening, ladies and gentlemen

Rainsong: Welcome to another psionics seminar here at the social club

Rainsong: Looks like we’re discussing Phasing tonight, lacking a counter-suggestion

Chirotractor: hasn’t been covered in a while anyway

Rainsong: True enough.

Rainsong: As mentioned, by way of friendly definition, “phasing” refers to passing a solid object through a second solid object.

Rainsong: For example, if you were to walk or fall through a brick wall, with neither door nor breech

Rainsong: It’s observed sometimes after tornadoes that objects thrown by the wind have passed partially through other objects. Most stories involve minor objects like pieces of straw or hay through pieces of wood or glass

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