Empathy

This being a condensed version of the seminar I gave last night, we’ll start with a friendly definition, so we’re all on the same figurative page. “Empathy,” in psionics, is the ability to sense other being’s emotions and to project one’s own emotions into another being’s mind. It is a…

Continue reading

Dreamwalking and Lucid Dreaming

A couple of things prompted me to write about dreamwalking again, after quite a number of years. I believe the last time might have been the essay for PsiPog back in 2002 (http://www.psipog.net/art-dreamwalking.html). One of these is a recent article on the BBC about lucid dreaming (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18277074). Apparently, this has…

Continue reading

Energetic Cords and Tendrils

You will find that many terms in common usage in psionics are simply descriptive, rather than being imaginative. In most cases, such terms are either derived from radio or computer jargon because of obvious similarities in effect, or pulled straight from normal vocabulary because of some likeness or another. Signal,…

Continue reading

Citing Shields, part 1

Recently, I was asked about citing the bubble and tower shields, and I did not have the appropriate references readily to hand at the time. I’m still tracking some of them down. Both types of Shielding _are_ mentioned in chapter XVIII of Dion Fortune’s _Psychic Self Defence_ book, of 1929.…

Continue reading