Thursday, January 6, 2005

            Well, I actually practiced again today, which is quite amazing. Like has been so busy and stressful lately, it just doesn’t leave me in any condition to practice. But since I was feeling good about psionics today, I went with it. I was talking with a few other psions and we got to practicing. The entire time I was in our office, good lighting, and except for when I was scanning, there was music in the background (either Assemblage 23’s “Disappoint-Funker Vogt Mix” or Evanescence’s “Missing”). The practice went okay. I mean, I could feel myself sending psi, and I could feel the warmth (I was attempting to make a hot psi ball), but we didn’t manage to make Ralph’s psi ball flare. I’m not really surprised; even seasoned psions oftentimes can’t make psi balls flare, and here were three people generally new to psionics plus me (I’ve been practicing longer, and I’ve had good results with telepathy, which helps when you’re sending energy) trying to do it. It was certainly likely to fail, but it was a lot of fun giving it a try. Plus, now I have them all on my yahoo instant messenger (YIM) buddy list, so I can practice with them in the future. Anyway, Chris stuck around and I scanned him. Well, I’m not positive that it was a technical scanning; I’m not sure whether it’s considered scanning if the person tries to send information. But beyond that, I did follow all of the techniques of scanning, and received information that he didn’t send, so it was a partial scanning at the very least. Well, I got the stucco right, and when I said New Mexico, I meant that I saw a type of building that you’d think would be in that state. Anyway, I saw a nice house, white rocks, and two-door garage (I didn’t mention the garage to him), but those imaged had a slight difference in the way they felt. Felt is such a strange word to use, because I didn’t physically feel anything, and yet, with psionics you feel something, although it’s impossible to describe. It’s like a kid who can wiggle his ears trying to explain to somebody who can’t how to do it. But anyway, those thoughts of the house, rocks, and garage, felt different to me. I believe that they were my own thoughts contaminating the scanning. It’s difficult to clear your mind completely, and it takes a lot of practice and skill to keep your own thoughts from seeping in. Ralph scanned me earlier, back in the PsiPog chat, and he saw white rocks, a two-door garage, and a nice house. Although all of those were wrong (all but the white rocks in the driveway were actually from somebody who lives two doors from me), they stuck in my mind. Anyway, after that, he sent me an image of his room. I saw a lot of clutter, a lot of mess. His desk was particularly unruly, although I couldn’t see with what. I saw his bed in the lower left-hand corner of his room, with dark covers on it. They were either dark blue plaid, where dark blue was the primary color. I knew he didn’t have a laptop, because I could see a big monitor on his desk. Well, not necessarily big, it actually looked normal sized, a more recent model (the corners were rounded), but it certainly was not a laptop screen. I saw two windows, but one was in front of his desk and one was beside it. I think he may have been mostly facing one window and his back was mostly to the other one, because I clearly saw a window in front of his face and one clearly behind his back. Anyway, I saw bunk beds, but I wasn’t sure about those, so I didn’t mention them. The bunk beds were vague, but for some reason, a white ladder was very insistent in my head, like the ladder I used to have for my bunk beds when was younger. I wasn’t sure that it was a ladder, but this white form of some height kept nagging at me, so I mentioned it and it turned out to be a stack of papers. I always saw a door to the right of the desk. Beyond that, all I saw was the general clutter. I didn’t mention everything I saw to Chris due to a basic fear of being wrong, but that’s the full recollection. He then tried to send me a single object. At first I got a basketball, then I got a big black shoe (it may have been a boot), and then some office supplies (a stapler, then paperclips-it was in a container like the one I have in my office-and then a stack of papers). There may have been some other things, but I don’t remember those.