Instructor: Rainsong
Date: February 2, 2019 (Saturday)
Seminar: Topic: rescheduled — “Aeon Trinity” Series – Legion Conference – PK – Part 2 – rescheduled – heating and cooling stuff (real world psionics, in spite of the game-inspired topic) -Saturday, 2 February 2019 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong — Rescheduled from lecture54 … Search LECTURE60
Rainsong: Cool. Welcome to tonight’s seminar.
Rainsong: Our topic for the evening is “using PK to heat and cool things,” the re-scheduled Part 2 of the Aeon Legion Conference.
Rainsong: In spite of the reference to Aeon Trinity, we’re talking about real-world psionics, and not the rpg
Rainsong: Do you have any questions and/or comments, as we get started?
silton2: No not right now
Rainsong: We’ll get the reminders out of the way first:
Rainsong: Practicing PK can be dangerous, even if you’re not accomplishing anything. If you feel light-headed, if your heart is “pounding”, or if anything hurts…. Stop and have a snack, and take a rest.
Rainsong: If medically appropriate for you, the snack should be high in sugar and potassium.
Rainsong: Psionics can mess up the glucose – potassium – insulin balances in the blood. And therefore, it can kill you
silton2: Like orange juice
Rainsong: Exactly
Rainsong: Anyone with diabetes or similar systemic disorders should be extra careful
silton2: Notes
silton2: *noted
Rainsong: I’m sure you already knew that, but apparently, it’s not in the logs frequently enough to get through to noobs
Rainsong: Now to the matter at hand…
Rainsong: Heating and cooling are not very complicated, psychokinetically.
Rainsong: They aren’t always easy, though.
Rainsong: It’s best to start off with a small quantity of substance to heat or cool, such as a tumbler of water
Rainsong: And use a candy-thermometer to observe the water’s temperature
Chirotractor: Wouldn’t water be harder to heat?
Rainsong: Yes, actually.
Rainsong: If you have something else that’s convenient and stable, it’ll probably be easier to affect.
Rainsong: As Chiro correctly points out, water has some weird thermal properties
Rainsong: But the “stable” part is important. Sudden explosions can be inconvenient
Rainsong: If nothing else, it can attract the attention of the local authorities. And not in a good way
Nickodemo: “An explosion? Is it a terrorist attack?”
Rainsong: Either that or a more common kind of crime.
Rainsong: It’s possible to bring water to a boil or to the freezing point, from a fairly stable room temperature, but it takes quite a bit of work. And hot water looks a lot like other water. Hence the thermometer
Rainsong: Whatever you use – water, sand, salt, molasses, chocolate — let it sit at room temperature for long enough to have settled at room temperature.
Rainsong: I’d say eight or nine hours as a minimum. 24 would be better
Rainsong: Any questions or comments so far?
Scelana: I have none so far
Chirotractor: An idea. Telekinetic fudge
Scelana: Hehe
Rainsong: Excellent idea, Chiro 🙂
Rainsong: To make chocolate truffle fudge, melt dark chocolate and a big dollop of unsalted butter until smooth. Then stir in heavy cream, sour cream, or sweetened condensed milk. (Proportions are about 4c chocolate, 1tbsp butter, 1-1/3c cream)
Scelana: Mmmm yummy
Chirotractor: Joke aside though it seems like a great way to practice control since fudge needs to be at a stable hot temperature for a while
Rainsong: nods The kind I just outlined is less fiddly than regular fudge. The normal ones need to boil at specific temperatures for specific times. 234F, usually
Rainsong: In addition to being good practice, the result is yummy fudge 😀
Rainsong: So, how to actually do it?
Rainsong: I usually favour concentrating on the substance in question while visualizing the molecules bumping into each other… speeding them up for heating and slowing them down for cooling… while running psi-stuff through and into the substance
Rainsong: If you’re cooling something down, it helps to have something handy for the extra “heat” to radiate or conduct into
Rainsong: As you may be aware, this method has been controversial in our section of the Internet for a couple decades.
Rainsong: So, it can upset people if you talk about it.
Rainsong: Works pretty well, though.
Rainsong: Questions or comments about this approach?
Chirotractor: Seems straightforwards
Chirotractor: How much harder than a psiball is it?
Rainsong: In my opinion? Considerably so. It’ll generally need more oomph than the average psiball.
Chirotractor: Is it useful to start early in your learning and try to work up doing this?
Rainsong: I’d think so, yes.
Rainsong: For context, I was doing this sort of thing at least a decade before I’d heard of psiballs as anything other than the base for children’s toys
Rainsong: (Edited to replace “easily”… which was meant in reference to the timeframe, but would be too easy to misread)
Rainsong: If it’s something you work on regularly, please make sure the substance you choose for regular practice is not combustible. Sometimes, it’ll continue heating after you stop concentrating on it
Chirotractor: … so no gasoline?
Rainsong: Yea. Gasoline has other issues for that purpose, anyway. The fumes aren’t good for you.
Rainsong: Some people will tell you that distance doesn’t matter for doing PK.
Rainsong: While they may or may not be correct, it’s easier to read a thermometer that isn’t in a different time-zone…
Rainsong: On the other hand, if someone has difficulty working out of line-of-sight, it can be instructive to try it in a videoconference, with the item you’re affecting in the other location
Rainsong: Another approach for heating things is to focus on the desired end-result… You might recognise this concept.
Rainsong: If you’re feeling silly, pantomime stirring with a bit stick, and recite the “Double, double, toil and trouble” section of MacBeth, while visualising the stuff boiling and pushing psi-stuff into and through it
Rainsong: A basic safety warning, by the way: For a number of years, there was advice floating around the psionics communities to do “cold conditioning” by sitting in ice water, to “become one with the cold”… and similar nonsense for heat.
Rainsong: That’s a really efficient way to become dead.
Rainsong: Hypothermia is a thing. And it can kill you up to a month after being re-warmed.
Rainsong: Don’t sit in ice-water
Rainsong: Questions? Commentary?
Chirotractor: what about like at a hot spring where you hop in the chilly pool then back in the hot one?
Chirotractor: This was an irrelevant question
Rainsong: It’s largely a question of duration.
Rainsong: Out here there’s a “polar bear swim”, where they cut through the ice on a lake and people hop in for a very quick dip.
Scelana: I knew that hypothermia is dangerous, but i didn’t know bout the up to a month part.
Rainsong: As long as you’re out of the water quickly, no harm done (presuming it doesn’t stop your heart). But sitting in icy water for two minutes will bring down your temperature. Much longer will cause damage.
Rainsong: Finding out exactly how long was lethal was one of the sets of illegal experimentation in the death camps of WWII
Rainsong: On that cheery note… :/ Questions? Commentary?
Scelana: I got none atm
Chirotractor: Is it a good idea to meditate before practicing this?
Rainsong: Probably. Meditation seems to be a pretty good idea, generally.
Rainsong: I’m not sure how much difference it makes for this specifically, but there’s some evidence that meditation is useful for psionic practices
Scelana: Meditation seems to be useful for many things
Rainsong: Breathing exercises are also good, before and after PK exercises. Full, from-the-belly breathing. (not the Pilates type)
ceahhettan: Evening folks.
Rainsong: Hi, Ceah
Scelana: Hello ceahhettan
Rainsong: Ceah: Any questions or comments about the topic?
ceahhettan: Still reading up.
Rainsong: My keyboard just switched to Canadian French. Not entirely sure why
ceahhettan: Not it. Anyway, not really. Temperature is one of those things that I’ve only ever had interaction with in my teenage years when I was um. Less controlled.
ceahhettan: Never successfully managed anything regarding temperature manipulation in the psionic sense as an adult.
Rainsong: Fair enough.
Rainsong: Thanks for participating, everyone. 🙂
ceahhettan: I’m glad I managed to catch at least a tiny bit of it. XD
Scelana: Thxies for the lecture Rainsong!
Rainsong: 🙂
Kate Embers: Thanks a lot :3 sounds good. Now off to buy a thermometer I guess 😀