Becoming a Psychic Magical Ki Wizard Part Two

I'm attempting one of the most basic form of psi-manipulation today, the formation of a 'psiball'. The name isn't particularly endearing, but when you're working with the lowest form imaginable I suppose it's only normal that the names shouldn't have seven syllables yet. Psiballs are constructs, and as the name implies they must be built. It can be a sphere, a cube, anything you wish. The sphere is recommended for the first attempt due to it's simplicity. The process is just gathering up energy and then pushing it into the shape you desire. Apparently with enough focus they can be almost tangible, and there's numerous reports of people creating visible versions with a great deal of luck and practice. I found nothing to confirm these reports, regrettably.

I'm starting the process by first attempting to gather up energy using the most common technique I found. It recommends using imagination to control where the energy goes. Concentration and visualization are apparently all that's needed to both collect energy and then make a psiball. You have to visualize both yourself and a source for the energy. The sun, moon or earth are all common candidates, but I don't believe there's any limitation on what you can pick. I have elected to use the earth due to proximity. You begin with visualizing pulling energy from your source into yourself. Using various breathing techniques were said to be helpful, but unnecessary. 

TEST NOTES

- The feeling associated with supposed intake of energy is difficult to describe, but is similar to a tingle of sorts. A close example would be the pins and needles experiences when a limb falls to sleep. It appears to be possible to invoke this feeling at will, and it's easier when visualizing energy. The feeling seems to be universal amongst practitioners, though people often report unique sensations accompanying it.
- Pulling in energy is easy, but the focus necessary to continue to pull in energy, maintain what you have, and move it to form a psiball is proving more difficult than I would have assumed.
- Multiple successive attempts invokes a weariness and increased difficulty. It may be the source of several minor aches and pains as well.
- Forming the psiball creates odd sensation in hands. Warmth, pressure, and involuntary muscle contractions in the fingers are all present. Will try with open hand technique, see if the results replicate.
- Even failed attempts encourage enormous relaxation. Similarity to basic meditation is undoubtedly the cause.
- The distinction between invoking sensation in the hands and body and genuine imagination is proving to be a problem. When attempting to force energy into a ball the habit of just imagining one forming better is going to muddle the experiment.
- *** After particularly intense (yet brief) test, I passed my hand through the space where the psiball was meant to be. I had heard the air mid seem denser if one was succeeding, and indeed it did feel so. Attempting to replicate results, though even if it works I can rule out personal delusion. He density difference is minute is present at all.
- Attempts with wider has spacing have maintained heat presence, even when the fingers are touching. Heat it only on the inside of hand.
- Unable to replicate density reliably. Warm is always present, very easy to notice. Involuntary muscle movement ceased with switch to a more open hand when gathering energy.

The information gathered from this experiment hasn't disproven the theory that psi-energy is just the voluntary firing of nerves, but it does stretch it. It's peculiar that both the tingle-esque sensation should be universal, and that warmth should be so easy to create at will. Further tests will move into the domain of solidifying the psiball. It must be tangible to the creator if it's going to have any effect on the environment.

Becoming a Psychic Magical Ki Wizard Part One

I've always have a fascination with the various occult organizations in the world, and I assume it's rooted in my enjoyment of fantasy and science fiction. It's been a long standing promise I've made to myself to finally look into some of that stuff. I realize that's a bit vague as to precisely what I'd cover, but it was intentionally so because I don't have a preference; merely a great deal of curiosity. The goal was to take a look at everything I could get my hands on and treat it utterly serious. I'm not about to lay out any expectations for success, so much as a willingness to see what's truly present.

I'd like to say I had some dramatic event that cued this search for knowledge, but no, to be honest I started looking really late one night when bored after trying to find cool things to do with my friends. Never fear, mundane-man is here. Anyways, I decided to give man-kinds greatest invention a go and I didn't find it wanting. Google turned up a number of communities that were more than eager to spill the secrets of the universe to me, but I was a bit put off from how empty and dead most all of these sites were. The Internet has it share of abandoned forums, but I thought there'd be more activity than that paltry response.

I did find one still alive, and while it seems past its prime it neatly beats out the competition by virtue of having any life at all. It's called the Veritas Society, because it sounds more impressive than Magic Friends and purports to be an "Online Energy Community", which is apparently a term. Who knew? Anyways, my less than invigorating start didn't completely crush my sense of duty, so I put on my game face (search 'angry marines' in google) and set out giving things the best showing I could.

For the next while I'll be trying to learn (to start) how to unlock my mind as a psion. That's fancy-talk for psychic. There's a number of people quite interested in helping me along, and I'm going to abuse the blog here to record my findings. It should make for a mildly interesting read if nothing else.