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Sure, you could....but dried sage is crunchy and crumbly...  The smudge sticks are tightly bundled.  I'm not sure how you'd prevent the leaves from turning to powder if you tried to bundle them in.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

By sheer chance, I stumbled across EXACTLY what you were talking about today.  It already exists.  Check out the Paranomicon on http://www.paranormal.com


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Passive scanning--perceiving energy because it's impinging on your space, rather than TRYING to perceive it, doesn't take anything out of you--no more than seeing or hearing does.

Active scanning, where you reach out and try to learn more about something, DOES require you to send energy (even if you aren't aware of it) to the target.  I believe it works something like sonar--you read the bounce-back.  That's the sort that can take a lot out of you if you do it often.  But use any muscle, and it becomes stronger....

I was taught that passive scanning is expected--if a person leaves themselves open they have to expect that people will notice things--it's like they are walking down the street with no clothes on.

Active, scanning, however, is an intrusion and should not be done without permission--that's like lifting up someone's shirt.  And the response to it can be on par with that--you may get slapped, or worse, if you're noticed.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

You need more than 2 hours of sleep at a stretch to remain healthy, there's no doubt about it.  I've seen firsthand the effects that a sleep disorder which prevents this can have on a person.

REM sleep gets the most press--if you don't get dream sleep, then you will go insane and start hallucinating.  But REM isn't all you need.
The deepest stage of sleep is called Delta.  Delta is the sleep in which almost all of your functions shut down, leaving just enough of the lights on to keep the system operating, as it were.  This is the true, deep rest that your body needs.

For a person with sleep apnea, when they hit this stage, they have to wake up, because the total muscle relaxation causes their palate to collapse and block their airway.

The result is extreme fatigue, weakness, and increasingly irrational levels of irritability.
It takes several hours for a person to transition into Delta, and it's absolutely necessary.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

The mailing list server I use, www.smartgroups.com, has databases for the mailing lists.
I'll have to take a look at those and see if they'd be workable.  We might just create a list.  The public can view the database if you adjust the settings that way.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

That's true--besides, the one I had in mind isn't as complete as I thought--here it is: http://www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/paraglos.htm

You're correct, there are certainly terms we can add.

The only potential problem I see is in defining some terms.  We may have to use multiple definitions to make everyone happy.  But, well, Websters does that too.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

If you want to be really silly, go up to another psi you know, charge your fingers, reach out, and put them around the person's nose--without touching their nose, twist.

The results provide a small amount of juvenile humor as they frantically scrub at their face...or try desperately not to.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Just whatever you do, never trust any guide that tries to tell you what the colors mean.  Your brain created those colors to help you translate your perceptions into something understandable--the colors will mean what they mean to YOU, and no one else's meanings are going to be fully accurate as a result.
While you may see green, another person might see blue, but the meaning would be the same, make sense?


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

There is a nice paranormal dictionary out there on the web, I've got the link somewhere.  There's a glossary on the Guild site, too, but that's highly specific.
I don't think either of them contain "Parazoology" or "astral wildlife", however.  Psychic vampirism is in wide useage, and should be listed in the one that's already up.
I should find that link again...I think that fellow had a means of submitting terms.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Yep, very strong stomach acid.  Surprisingly, no ulcers, though.
Found out about this when his parents took him to the doctor after he swallowed some coins as a kid.  The doctor was a bit surprised when the X-ray showed that the only thing left were thin latticeworks of dissolving metal--no point in removing them, they'd soon be gone!
I know this guy eats stuff that would give me food poisoning, too.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Positive or not, this was most likely just a very vivid dream.  Do you sleepwalk?


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

My first nasty thought is that you linked to another person, and this really happened to them.  That by itself would be viscerally horrible enough on all levels to make a lot of people shut down.  

This is also virtually identical to a dream my HUSBAND had, of "waking up"--coming to in a place where there are many other people hooked up to IVs and wires, and having medical personnel put him back to sleep again.  He described it as incredibly vivid.
This was years before the movie "The Matrix" came out.

I have to wonder if the rumors are true, and somewhere some people are doing very bad things to some psis.






--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Improved energy perception in general, no matter how you translate it, is to be expected with energy-working and development.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Well, from your description, it doesn't sound like it's hostile--it didn't attack or harm anyone.
So as to how to deal with it, I recommend "being polite".
Entities at that caliber require equally high level talent and skill to deal with.  A baseball bat isn't going to cut it, and its tangibility is probably under its control, if it can actually do that.
The LBRP probably isn't going to cut it, either....

It may merely implant the illusion that it is making sound and such, though.  Making a non-psi-active person see spirits is hard, but not impossible.

Some entities which are not hostile can "look" frightening--a friend of mine once had a snake with a head the size of a car appear in his living room, but it was a fae spirit, and innocuous.  (Nonetheless, he decided that his open invitation to fae entities was therefore at an end...).


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

There is a LOT of stuff out there.
http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/wingedwolf/Parazoology/Vampyrs/index.html
There's my most controversial document on vampires--the kind that actually do drink blood, psychic vampires, and so on.

There are a LOT of spirits which drain energy from people, in a multitude of different ways.  I'd almost hesitate to call any of them vampires, because this is such a broad modus operandi for spirit entities.  Many spirits may occasionally engage in this behavior, for example, even if they don't do it all the time.
Spirits are subject to entropy, as we all are--they need to replenish their energy as a result, and they need to replenish with the same kind of energy they are made up of.  If this is an energy type which humans generate, then that's one source they can't ignore.
Even gods feed on faith....


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

There are no psychic police.  Instead, there are multitudes of individuals and groups which happily set themselves up as a sort of vigilante task force.

The majority of these are not in contact with one another, and a great many of them do not necessarily agree on what situations are appropriate to intervene in, and which are not.  They occasionally come into direct conflict with one another, as a result.

So, it's not out of the question that your plea for help found SOMEONE.
For an example on a group that acts in this manner, see http://www.psybernation.com
You may or may not agree with it, but it's out there.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Thanks.
Just occurred to me, by the way....don't know why it didn't before.  But a lot of born-psi folks have genetic mutations which can cause some unusual abnormalities involving the digestive system (among other things).  Among the psis I know, one cannot digest meat at all, and another can digest just about anything, including metal coins, in a short period of time.  Food allergies and intolerances are very common as well.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Enormous thanks for that!  And the picture is absolutely gorgeous, too.  

I do have a question, though I'm not sure whether you'll be able to answer it or not.  I've been trying to classify entities partially by energy types as well as behavior.  If you would happen to know what energy type or types this particularly entity is comprised of, it'd be a big help.
Identified types are:  Psi (the bulk of the human aura, an EM-like energy that seems associated with nervous system activity, fairly "light" and volatile.)
Life ("soul-stuff"...often used by martial artists, a very heavy, dense, and extremely stable energy type).
Faith (a normally short-lived energy that seems to be generated in the brain, associated with probability alteration, somewhat EM-related).
Veil (Stuff from "elsewhere"...oily, persistant, and highly mutagenic)
Collective Unconscious (broken down psi and faith energy-- becomes this when it's sitting around)
Quantum (three types, but they're hard to distinguish.  Used mainly by ceremonial magickians)
Earth (energy from the planet's field, ley lines, etc).

Angels, demons, and fae are usually comprised of a Life/Faith mix, for example.
If you're not sure, no problem--I realize that few people make these distinctions, or ever thought to pay attention to them.  An entity's behavior is usually a lot more important than what it's made of or where it came from.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

It really depends on what sort of system your attacker has experience with--some systems have "security holes" as it were, that you can exploit, and some magickal systems are oriented far more on attack than on defense.  If you can get a shield on this person that sie cannot break, that will do the trick.  Burning them will also stop or reduce the problem for a time--massive overload is the easiest way to do that, but you have to either keep them from grounding, or use such speed that they can't keep up.  The faster you can influx the energy, the worse the burn will be, and the more debilitating it will be.

Unless you have some truly gifted help, you probably can't burn them out permanently, but that one would definitely buy time--and it could also enable you to work at putting a shield on them that they can't break out of.  So long as they have no skill with energy teleporting, anyhow (and the vast majority of people don't).

Also, if you can get their defenses down, you might be able to implant a program that causes pain feedback when they try to use certain abilities--that's a high skill level thing as well, but not out of the question.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

I don't personally think it's possible for us to perceive reality, just an approximation of it with a lot left out.

If I perceive something, I tend to doubt it.  If others perceive it as well, I doubt it less--the more, the better.  But I'm never totally convinced.
In general, I tend to assume that what I perceive is real, and treat it as such, though.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Just so long as it's not another of those that tries to make vegetarianism seem environmentally friendly.
I live on the plains--this is wild grassland, and cattle disturb it relatively little (just as bison did before them).  Much better for the environment than trying to grow crops here.  I'd never thought of this, until I moved out here and saw what the real situation was.
In many places, you can raise food animals on land left wild--not so with crops.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Ok, I won't say "this is the way it is"....
But, based on my opinion and all the scientific evidence and such...:

Humans are omnivores.  Their digestive systems are not perfectly adapted to eating meat--but neither are they perfectly adapted to eating fruits and vegetables and grains.  They have sacrificed this efficiency in favor of variety and versatility.
Humans don't have the enzyme production necessary to be true carnivores, but they also don't have the gut-length and enzyme production necessary to be true herbivores.
It's possible for humans to survive on either diet.  (Inuit peoples, for example, are largely carnivorous--they know which parts of the animal to eat to gain necessary nutrients, such as the liver).

It's possible to live on a vegetarian diet, but of course it requires a huge variety of foods from different areas to ensure that necessary complete proteins are acquired.  And there is still a problem with certain necessary vitamins ONLY found in animal products (B12, I believe), which many vegans must supplement, or develop deficiencies of.

I maintain that the healthiest human diet is the one that includes a huge variety of foods from different sources, both plant and animal.
And, that some persons are more adapted to eating animal foods, and others to plant foods--not to suggest that they are completely well adapted to either, as no human is.
You're making the assumption that such "carnivore-oriented" people have never tried vegetarianism, or haven't stuck with it for long enough.
But this is not true, and it belittles their experiences.  I think it's poor taste to accuse others of lying or being deceived simply because your beliefs don't match their experiences.

Frankly, not only do I digest meat very well, and feel better when I eat it (and I've had long periods when I've not been able to eat much of it), but I also happen to enjoy it.  Certainly, my overall health is improved when I eat it--I don't get the headaches I get when I consume too many veggies and fruits over long periods of time, and I'm less susceptable to illness.  This is my observation, believe what you will.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

It sounds like you're on your way to getting a handle on this.  Of course NEW or the system on The Psion Guild site would be of benefit in the things you're needing to learn.
I have a mailing list called PsychicCombat that might be of some use, as well, but it is for advanced practitioners (those who already know the basics of energy manipulation, shielding, and constructs and such).  It was on Yahoogroups, I'm moving it to Smartgroups right now (www.smartgroups.com).


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

My opinion on foods is this--different individuals have different dietary needs!  That should be obvious, but doesn't seem to be mentioned in anything on nutrition.
Closest I've ever seen was a person who thought that blood types suggested what sort of diet a person should eat.  I didn't agree with all of his assessments, I'm afraid.

With the exceptions of artificial foods, excessive sweets and caffeine, and chemicals (and I don't mean cooked foods--our species evolved with cooked foods, our progenitors used fire as well), our bodies know what they need, if we bother to actually listen.

If a person feels better when they avoid meat--well, obviously they would make a good vegetarian, and doubtless experience great health on such a diet!
But don't extend that across the board, please....while you may react a certain way to certain types of food, others may very well not react that way.

I personally have a hard time digesting fruits and vegetables.  I eat them when I crave them, but my digestive system lets me know that it's not entirely happy with the whole thing.
The food I digest most readily is red meat--poulty is a bit more difficult, as is pork.  Grains--bread, cereal, etc, is second best to red meat.  So that's what I eat most of, and when I drift from that tendency, that's when I feel most out of sorts.

I've spoken to many others who report the same thing--leaving meat out of their diet results in uncomfortable digestion, and a nagging sensation of hunger, even with a full stomach.  Cheese and other high-protein sources can lessen that effect, so it may well be that we need more protein than most folks.

Oh, I just read an article on how grass-fed animals are much higher in nutritive value than factory-farmed animals.  The difference in Vitamin and mineral content was substantial (5 times more vitamin E in grassfed beef, than grain-fed, for example).

I think that if we all managed to eat more natural, organic foods (and organic beef isn't necessarily grass-fed, by the way), we'd all be healthier and have higher energy levels.  Too bad it's so expensive to do so.
All the veggies and fruits are contaminated with pesticides, and the varieties are grown with chemical fertilizers--the hybrid varieties that withstand shipping are used, and their phenotype along with the long time they spend in shipping after picking, ensure that they have reduced nutritional value.
The meat is the same--lower nutritional value due to the way it's raised, and contamination with chemical pesticides from the feed, and possibly hormones and antibiotics as well.
This is part of the reason I desperately want some land...I want to raise my own food.
I'm rather tired of settling for worse than I could find if I hunted in an empty lot.  (dandelions are actually pretty healthy. )




--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Robert, is there any way I may have some portion of that for my Parazoology web site?   Complete and accurate descriptions of spirit entities (you even had the actual "appearance", which so few do!) is very hard to come by.
The site is meant to be an ongoing listing of spirits with an attempt at classifying them.  I'd hoped that it will be easier for people to pass on information on what things are and how to deal with them if there was some sort of central reference.
It'll be impossible to get everything, but just keeping the idea going I think will be valuable in the long run.
My primary problem so far has been that I'm not really clairvoyant.  I can give some approximations of an entity's actual appearance, but not its typical projected appearance in most cases.
You have a very highly detailed and complete description of a specific "species" of entity--I'd love to add it to the database, however small it may be currently.  Full credit given of course, if you'd allow me to do that.

(The url is http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/wingedwolf/Parazoology/index.html
Keep in mind, though, that I lost a huge number of graphics in a server crash, and haven't yet managed to re-create them all, or get the site completely straightened out--I'm working on it all, slowly.  I have had to do this with all my sites, and I put the Guild site at top priority, with my home page second).


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."