Psychic Community

My latest attempt to look into the the world of magical psychic Ki wizards took me local. My goal was to try and identify if Ottawa had any sort of community dedicated to this stuff and hopefully get in contact with some of them, possibly even manage an interview or two. The follow up to this would of course be to try and find out if any of the locals had ways to prove what they were doing was in fact real, since I assume the question must come up often enough that anyone significantly involved in the community would have at least a response to it, even if its only scowling and telling me to fuck off.

I've come across a stumbling block however. It seems the various occult communities of Ottawa are isolated, with very little to no contact between them, or at least nothing on an leadership level. There may be friends between the assorted groups, but certainly nothing so convenient as a forum or regular meet up. I've found their organizations to be very similar to the way Martial Arts dojos are set up. Each has it's own creed, lineage and tiny supporting community, but very little intermingles on an official level. They may all work in largely the same area of expertise but the tiny distinctions in philosophy and practice distinguish them enough that they retain a very definite sense of identity separate from the other groups.

What's more most of these groups are operating out of houses or other very private settings, making any sort of unobtrusive investigation difficult at best. I'm not entirely certain how to proceed from here. I'm hesitant to commitment myself to any of these groups in order to learn more about them. There's often a financial cost associated, but even in the groups that don't necessarily require a fee I can't be certain I'd be able to get very far if I was frank about my intentions to verify their practices rather than merely participate. I could lie of course, but it'd be quite time consuming to try and investigate each independently like this, even assuming I'm convincing in my lies.

My personal experiments in meditations and psiballs have remained inconclusive, I can't for certain distinguish what I'm feeling from anything other than voluntary nerve firings and have failed in my attempts to prove anything through external tests. I need another practitioner that can verify these tests, preferably some one who is further along and more confident of their abilities, so as to not bring the results into question with incompetence. I may just have to bite the bullet and commit myself to a local community to see what results I can find.